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Health Tech

Discovery of racial bias in health care AI wins STAT Madness ‘Editors’ Pick’

By Sharon Begley

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Pharmalot

A new Covid-19 problem: Shortages of medicines needed for placing patients on ventilators

By Ed Silverman

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Brigham - Covid prep 3/25

On the Front Lines

With masks dwindling, a hospital’s Covid-19 crisis team searches for a way out

By Eric Boodman

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Health Tech

Hospitals turn to remote monitoring tools to free up beds for the sickest coronavirus patients

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Health

Desperate for Covid-19 answers, U.S. doctors turn to colleagues in China

By Sharon Begley

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Health Tech

Surge in patients overwhelms telehealth services amid coronavirus pandemic

By Erin Brodwin and Casey Ross

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Hospitals

Coronavirus model shows individual hospitals what to expect in the coming weeks

By Sharon Begley

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Hospitals

Hospital workers across the U.S. present sharply different pictures of their preparedness for the coronavirus

By Meghana Keshavan

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Health Tech

Google research suggests efforts to anonymize patient data aren’t foolproof

By Erin Brodwin

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Health

How the psychology of a $4.99 price tag might influence who undergoes heart surgery

By Eric Boodman

Zachi Attai

Health Tech

At Mayo Clinic, AI engineers face an ‘acid test’: Will their algorithms help real patients?

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Pharmalot

More hospital drug spending is going toward cancer immunotherapies

By Ed Silverman

Health Tech

Mayo Clinic taps Boston health tech leader to guide data strategy

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Business

Facing bottlenecks in manufacturing cell therapies, Boston leaders plan to build their own

By Sharon Begley

Off the Charts

Off the Charts

When it comes to health care, nothing is nonpartisan. Melania Trump’s visit to a Boston hospital harms patients and providers

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Politics

Couple stole trade secrets from U.S. children’s hospital to market their Chinese biotech, prosecutors say

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Hospitals

It’s not just bosses who harass health workers: Hospitals start addressing patients’ ‘egregious’ behavior

By Jacquelyn Corley

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Health

In an emergency, where ambulances take patients differs by race, study finds

By Jacquelyn Corley

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Health Tech

With brain trauma, surgeons don’t always know if an operation will help. Could AI change that?

By Jacquelyn Corley

Rx overprescribing KHN

Special Report

While addiction crisis raged, many surgeons overprescribed opioids, analysis shows

By Julie Appleby and Elizabeth Lucas — Kaiser Health News

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Special Report

How the Kaiser-Johns Hopkins analysis was done

By Kaiser Health News

AI LUNGS

Health Tech

Behind the scenes of Google’s effort to test AI for lung-cancer screening

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Pharmalot

Two new ventures strike deals with drug makers to combat generic shortages

By Ed Silverman

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Hospitals

Former Red Sox pitcher settles claim with doctor, MGH for $5.1 million

By Jonathan Saltzman — Boston Globe

Health

Mass. General Hospital receives record $200 million gift to endow vaccine-research center

By Liz Kowalczyk — Boston Globe

Amarin Transcript

Hospitals

CMS proposes changing requirements for less-invasive heart valve procedure

By Matthew Herper

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Hospitals

As tech giants compete for contracts, hospitals shift their data to the cloud

Health

‘Wired into the walls’: Voice-recognition system promises to automate data entry during office visits

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Hospitals

FDA sounds an alarm on using robotic devices in cancer surgeries, citing concerns about safety and results