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Managing your health records should be as easy as managing your money | Slate

A look at whether Apple's Health app and other work will make it easier for patients to manage their health information.

Facebook to redirect users searching for opioids to federal crisis help line | Stat

When Facebook users try to buy opioids or look for addiction treatment, the site will send them to information about a federal crisis help line.

The AI that spots heart attacks | Bloomberg

Danish software developers at Corti have created machine learning algorithms that analyze emergency calls to detect whether the callers are in cardiac arrest.

Optum research head describes AI's 'black box' problem and its impact on healthcare | Mobihealthnews

"Explainable AI is going to be extremely important for us in healthcare in actually bridging this gap from understanding what might be possible and what might be going on with your health, and actually giving clinicians tools so that they can really be comfortable and understand how to use (it) in a clinical decision-support setting," said the head of OptumLabs' Center for Applied Data Science.

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New York City will end marijuana arrests for most people | The New York Times

New York City police will give some people—those without past arrests or convictions—tickets for using marijuana in public rather than arresting them. The city wants to reduce the number of arrests for public marijuana-smoking by more than half.