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Amazon marshals partners, providers behind major move into medical imaging

Cloud giant Amazon Web Services is expanding its 1½ -year-old HealthLake data-management service in two imaging-specific directions. In the process it’s drawing vocal buy-in from healthcare providers as well as imaging vendors.

10 principles that 3 regulators deem essential for healthcare AI development

Makers of AI models for use in healthcare should think through the potential actions of any “humans in the loop” of their tool’s implementation in real-world clinical settings.

Notable regulatory approvals of emerging technologies over the past 30 days

Along with AI in its various iterations, the list may include virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing and visualization, robotics and other innovative technologies changing healthcare delivery.

Federal security officials warn that ‘Made in China’ could one day go for tech-dependent US healthcare

U.S. healthcare may be high on China’s wish list of Western spheres of activity to infiltrate ever more deeply with artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies.

Google gains a sure foothold for building its healthcare AI résumé

A 17-hospital, 500-site health system in the Northeast is migrating clinical and operational data to Google Cloud platforms while also partnering with the Silicon Valley giant on AI and machine learning.

Another itemized set of actions Washington could take to better regulate medical AI

Two more close AI observers are urging Congress to equip the FDA for tighter regulation of medical algorithms.

Major academic health system reveals plans for dedicated AI department

U.S. healthcare will soon welcome the country’s first hospital department focused on applying AI to biomedical research and clinical medicine

5 ways US regulators could go further to beat back bias in medical AI

FDA could do more to police regulated products for algorithmic biases that may affect clinical outcomes in vulnerable subpopulations.

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These health systems have the biggest digital health portfolios

U.S. health systems are increasingly leveraging digital health to conduct their operations, but how health systems are using digital health in their strategies can vary widely.

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Toylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles to connect

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.