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Don't shy away from AI, says MUSC innovation leader

Arman Kilic, MD, director of the Schiller Surgical Innovation Center at the Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina, is working on 25 different projects that utilize artificial intelligence. 

From holographic software to TAVR procedures: 5 cardiology updates

Here are five cardiology updates Becker’s has reported on since Dec. 20: 

16 most popular nonmedical side gigs for physicians

 Nearly 4 in 10 physicians currently have a side gig, according to the 2022 “Physician Side Gigs” report from Medscape. 

FTC could ban noncompetes with new rule: What ASCs need to know

Noncompete agreements could be banned with a new proposed rule from the Federal Trade Commission. 

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare taps CEO

Chicago-based Northwestern Memorial HealthCare has named Howard Chrisman, MD, its next CEO. 

First lady Jill Biden to undergo surgery at Maryland ASC

First lady Jill Biden will have surgery to remove a lesion above her eye at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., according to a Jan. 4 memo from President Joe Biden’s physician.

5 hospitals, health systems seeking chief medical information officers

Below are five hospitals and health systems that posted job listings in the past month seeking chief medical information officers.

Which health tech startups are predicted to go public in 2023

Forty-five percent of health tech experts predicted that two or fewer health tech companies will go public in the new year, and those predicted to go public mostly focus on enabling people to receive care and manage their conditions from their homes, a…

Google introduces chatbot for healthcare providers

Google and DeepMind are lauching MedPaLM, an open-sourced large language model that exclusively addresses medical queries, Tech Times reported Jan. 4. 

New Jersey hospital still recovering from December cybersecurity incident

Freehold, N.J.-based CentraState Medical Center is no longer diverting patients to other facilities after a Dec. 30 IT security issue caused the hospital to experience technical problems, but some outpatient services are still affected, Asbury Park Pre…