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The evidence gap means physicians don’t have the right evidence for best treatment decision, says Saurabh Gombar, adjunct faculty at Stanford Health Care and chief medical officer and cofounder of Atropos Health.  

Artificial intelligence is data hungry, and interoperability is about putting data to work, says Marilee Benson, president and cofounder of Zen Healthcare IT.  

Strategies to curb violence in the work setting include training, technology support and coordinating with local law enforcement.

John Oxendine was sentenced for conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in connection with unnecessary lab testing.

Eversana, which provides services for the life sciences industry, is working with Digital Therapeutics Alliance to analyze different reimbursement frameworks in Europe, says Alberta Spreafico, senior vice president of health innovation at Eversana.  

An AI prescribing tool does more than notify clinicians as it directly corrects the prescription if it detects a drug interaction and suggests prescription alternatives, says Emmanuel Bilbault, cofounder and CEO of POSOS.

The defendants allegedly caused the hospital to pay vendors for goods and services they knew had not been provided.

A radioactive tracer is able to go through the bloodstream to take images for diagnosis and can travel to abnormal places in the body where masses and tumors can hide, says Heidi Veltman, VP & COO of Kaiser Permanente Georgia.  

Medweb builds global teleradiology networks that operate out of remote locations with poor communications infrastructure, enabling telemedicine on ships at sea and active war zones, says Steven Osborne, the company  director of federal business.  

Some regulations have already been challenged, and more are likely to come, according to Moody's.