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Radiologists are overworked, interpreting new images every few seconds to keep up with increasing numbers of CT and MRI scans. As is the trend these days, some are turning to digital tools backed by artificial intelligence to help ease the pain.

With just a few weeks to go until November’s elections, the dialysis industry has raised more than $105 million to defeat a ballot measure that would cap their profits at 15% of direct patient care costs.

Many health systems use group purchasing organizations to get supplies and devices. But GPOs charge manufacturers to have their products appear in catalogs and that’s contributing to high healthcare costs, according to three Johns Hopkins professors.

Providing incentive payments to doctors in order to get them to increase the rate of preventive screenings they perform does not violate federal kick back laws, according to HHS’ Office of Inspector General.

Under the agreement, the University of Southern California will pay $2,500 to $250,000 to each of the approximately 500 women who claimed abuse by Dr. George Tyndall between 1988 and 2016.

Burdened by EHRs and anxious about their financial well-being, physicians don’t have a particularly rosy outlook on the practice of medicine, according to a report from Leavitt Partners.

Novartis buys cancer-drug manufacturer Endocyte, FHIR boosters want the CMS and ONC to use their standard, and AI helps writers write.

Two Colorado specialists have found marijuana’s brain-altering component lingers in breastmilk at least six weeks. As researchers worry growing maternal cannabis use could translate into a public health crisis for children, physicians are seeing…

Hospitals the receive accreditation from organizations like the Joint Commission don’t have better mortality or readmission rates than their non-accredited peers, according to a new study.

Hospital administrators, worried about denials, have been pushing doctors to perform knee replacement procedures in outpatient settings.