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Hospital Crisis Hits Urban Safety-Net Hard
61 percent of America's most financially vulnerable hospitals are in cities. 🏙️ That number stopped me cold when I read it. Everyone in this space has been told the same story for the past year. ...
Aidoc First Read FDA Breakthrough Designation
Everyone is calling this an FDA approval. It is not. And the difference should shape every radiology AI decision you make in the next 12 months. Aidoc just received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for First ...
CMS 2027 Physician Pay Overhaul
Are you still billing fee-for-service in 2026? 🏥 If you are, CMS just told you exactly what they think of that. On July 14, CMS dropped the proposed Physician Fee Schedule for Calendar Year 2027. ...
Ebola DRC: Third-Largest Outbreak Ever
The world has a third-largest Ebola outbreak. Right now. And most people in healthcare have barely looked up from their inboxes. According to The Analyst Desk, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ...
FDA AI Clearance: Speed Without Safety
More FDA clearances in radiology AI should mean safer imaging. It does not. The number on the scoreboard looks impressive. According to AI Certs, academic analysts verified 950 cleared AI tools as of August 2024, ...
Pearl Health $50M Series C
$110 million just went into fixing Medicare. Here is why that matters. Pearl Health raised $50 million in Series C equity and locked in a $60 million credit facility, according to Startup Geek citing Axios ...
Q2 2026 FDA Radiology AI Clearances
86 FDA AI clearances in one quarter. Most people read this wrong. I read the Innolitics Q2 2026 AI/ML FDA clearance breakdown and stopped at one line: 84 of those came through 510(k), but only ...
One Big Beautiful Bill: The FQHC Reckoning
Everyone says this is a budget bill. It is not. For every FQHC director, community health worker, and safety-net provider reading this, H.R.1 is a patient volume crisis arriving in slow motion. A pregnant woman ...