Medical Robotics Boost: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) won a $2M state grant to expand its PracticePoint facility and build a Medical Innovation and Training Center for medical robotics, in partnership with UMass Chan Medical School. Medicaid Fraud Crackdowns: Georgia AG Chris Carr indicted a therapy center owner over alleged Medicaid billing tied to a psychiatrist who died in 2021, while South Dakota sentenced a nursing provider to a suspended 10-year term for false Medicaid claims totaling over $588k. Fraud Watch in Healthcare: The U.S. HHS OIG published a white paper on how durable medical equipment fraud works in Medicare, outlining three key ingredients fraudsters need and urging stronger supplier enrollment and oversight. Care Access & Safety: Families in New Hampshire say home-nursing supplies for medically complex children are arriving late or in reduced quantities, prompting calls for tighter standards across Medicaid managed care groups. Health Tech & Data: Flatiron Health expanded its NSCLC Panoramic dataset with specimen-level biomarker details across 345,000+ patients, aiming to sharpen precision medicine research. Public Health & Policy: Canada’s rail safety board urged stronger oversight of medical fitness assessments for train operators after a 2023 crash linked to incomplete diabetes checks. Medical Emergencies: Fifteen children were taken for evaluation after a school bus crash on Louisiana’s Westbank Expressway; in New York, Rikers Island recorded its seventh in-custody death after a medical emergency.