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Flagler Health’s $50M MSK AI Bet
Everyone thinks MSK software is boring. Flagler Health just proved it isn't. 🔥 The conventional take on musculoskeletal health tech is that it's a sleepy, commoditized corner of the market. Scheduling tools, basic EMR plugins, ...
The EGFR Resistance Decision Framework
Everyone is celebrating the SAFFRON trial. I want to slow down. 🧬 The headlines are right that this is significant. But the most important thing SAFFRON gives us is not a drug combination. It is ...
4 Fault Lines of Radiologist Retention
🔎 Everyone is calling the VA radiology collapse a policy failure. It is really a staffing architecture failure. The policy is just what triggered it. The structure was already broken. The VA OIG released its ...
4-Force Radiology Revenue Squeeze
The radiology workforce story everyone is telling is the wrong one. 🩻 The dominant narrative is simple: we have a shortage, so we need more radiologists. Hire more, read more, fix it. But a new ...
Nevada FQHCs Fear Medicaid Cliff
Nevada FQHCs are already absorbing the Medicaid fallout. 🚨 Patients are dropping off coverage before the rules even fully kick in. According to the Las Vegas Sun, leaders from eight federally qualified health centers in ...
Aidoc Wins First AI Radiology NTAP
A radiologist reads a non-contrast CT in the ED. The AI already flagged the chest and abdomen for multiple emergent conditions before the read even started. 🩺 This week, that workflow got a price tag ...
CMS Cuts Medicaid Funding for Youth Gender Care
Everyone thinks this is a healthcare ban. It is not. 📋 CMS just finalized a rule that removes federal Medicaid and CHIP dollars from gender-transition procedures for minors. But the rule itself explicitly states that ...
Screening Gaps by Citizenship Status
43.6% vs. 75.5%. That is the colorectal screening gap no one is talking about. 🔬 For noncitizens in the United States, the odds of getting screened for colorectal cancer are less than half those of ...







