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University of California Irvine launches AI center for healthcare | Health Data Management

Researchers and physicians at the UCI Center for Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine will look into how to bring AI into routine practice to improve outcomes and lower costs.

Goal of Epic summit for non-clients is better health records sharing | Xconomy

Epic will host its first "un-users group meeting" this September for providers who don't use Epic but who want to interoperate with Epic users.

Apple is beefing up a team to explore making its own health chips | CNBC

According to a job posting, Apple's Health Sensing hardware team wants to hire architects to build "sensors and sensing systems." According to another posting, the company wants to hire an engineer to work on health sensors.

Pharmaceuticals

As Alzheimer's drug developers give up on today's patients, where is the outrage? | Stat

Researchers have shifted from trying to find Alzheimer's treatments to trying to find Alzheimer's preventions. In doing so, they've been essentially ignoring treatment strategies.

In other news

Twitter finally suspended Alex Jones' account—but only for one week | Quartz

After Alex Jones posted a video to Twitter telling his supporters to ready their "battle rifles," Twitter suspended him from the platform for a week. Last week, Facebook, Apple, and YouTube took down most of Alex Jones' content from their services.