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fromSubstack
1 month ago

More Efficiency, More Demand

Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize winning computer scientist who is often referred to as the "Godfather of AI", famously asserted in 2016 that, "People should stop training radiologists now. It's just completely obvious that in five years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists." The logical expectation would be that the number of radiologists should begin to decline over time as they begin to get replaced by AI.
Artificial intelligence
Healthcare
fromMedium
6 months ago

How AI Helps Prevent Medical Billing Fraud

Medical billing fraud poses significant societal and economic challenges for healthcare providers.
Healthcare
fromMedCity News
7 months ago

Hospital M&A Has Hit the Brakes - But Activity Could Pick Up in the Second Half of 2025 - MedCity News

Hospital M&A activity decreased significantly in early 2025 due to economic uncertainty, with only five transactions in Q1.
fromwww.theguardian.com
8 months ago

Senior medics in England say more resident doctor strikes would be futile

A doctors strike would further diminish the ability of the NHS to deliver, and play into the hands of those who don't believe in an NHS publicly funded.
UK politics
US politics
fromNew York Post
9 months ago

Trump claims 'fat shot' buddy 'very happy' to have story out - but won't name him

Trump's anecdote about a friend's drug price disparity highlights issues in US pharmaceutical pricing.
fromABC7 Los Angeles
9 months ago

Tariff uncertainty threatens to raise drug prices and stall medical innovation, experts warn

"One inhaler is $60 to $100 in order for me to get a breathing treatment," said Lucky Goodrich of Los Angeles.
US politics
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