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Technology

HHS awards $125M to bolster the use of IT by health centers | Health Data Management

Health centers will use the quality improvement grants to upgrade their IT and, in turn, make their care higher quality and more effective.

Tech firms say AI can transform health care as we know it. Doctors think they should slow down | CNBC

Providers worry that the pace of the AI industry could put patient safety at risk. Meanwhile, they're considering how their roles will change as the industry continues to adopt new AI-based tools.

Pharmaceuticals

Purdue Pharma's sales pitch downplayed risks of opioid addiction | Kaiser Health News

Beginning in the mid-1990s, Purdue pushed OxyContin, its prescription painkiller, in marketing brochures and videos. "Fear should not stand in the way of relief of your pain," read one brochure.

Medical devices

Highly compensated doctors often fail to disclose relationships with medical device companies | Mobihealthnews

Just over a third of publications by doctors getting the most compensation from device manufacturers included conflict-of-interest declarations, according to a study in JAMA Surgery.

In other news

Elon Musk, amid Tesla furor, tells of 'most difficult' year | The New York Times

After Musk said on Twitter that he'd turn his public company private, the markets—and his employees—got angry. "The worst is over from a Tesla operational standpoint," he said. "But from a personal pain standpoint, the worst is yet to come."