What You Should Know:
- Air Methods, the nation’s largest air medical provider, today announced the launch of Spright, a newly formed drone solution, designed to help improve healthcare access and minimize supply challenges. Collaborating with Wingcopter, an industry-leading German drone manufacturer, Spright will create a first-of-its-kind, drone-based, urgent healthcare resource delivery network across the United States.
- The network will be designed to quickly deliver emergent
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Archives for 2021
Risk Mitigation: Strengthening Trust in AI for Healthcare
Better clinical decision support, population health interventions, patient self-care, and research - these are just a few of the promising use cases of artificial intelligence (AI).
In addition to its benefits, AI can introduce risks that could potentially undermine trust in AI solutions and need to be addressed. These risks include, among others, promulgating bias inherent in source data; a lack of minimal transparency in computation algorithms; AI performance in a “lab setting” not
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Cardinal Health Leverages Blockchain to Streamline Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
What You Should Know:
- Cardinal Health and Chronicled announced a partnership to leverage a new blockchain-powered solution on the MediLedger Network to streamline operations across the pharmaceutical supply chain and enable a reliable, frictionless experience for pharmacies across the country. The new blockchain solution will allow Cardinal Health to optimize the complex process of pharmaceutical chargebacks and create greater connectivity for its suppliers and
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ARTIS Ventures Announces 2021 Class of Healthcare and Life Sciences Fellows
What You Should Know:
- ARTIS Ventures (“AV”), a venture firm focused on pioneering investments in biotech, health, and life sciences, today announced the candidates chosen for the AV Fellows program. The year-long program includes a diverse group of nine fellows from across the world, chosen from more than 150 applicants currently enrolled in a Ph.D. or MD program (or postdoc/residency) with technical expertise ranging from computational biology, synthetic biology, microbiome engineering,
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U.S. Naval Academy Awards NeuroFlow New Contract to Support Wellness and Resiliency of USNA Midshipmen
What You Should Know:
- NeuroFlow, a technology and services provider for behavioral health integration, has been contracted by the U.S. Naval Academy to support Midshipmen wellness during their 47-month journey to commission as naval officers.
- The new offering gives Midshipmen access to a secure mobile application designed to enhance resiliency and, when necessary, support a pathway to care. NeuroFlow’s platform confidentially captures health data to enable the system to provide
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Lightbeam, Surescripts Partner for Med Adherence Across Populations
What You Should Know:
- Lightbeam and Surescripts announced today a partnership that gives Lightbeam’s clients patient prescription histories and real-time refill notifications.
- Lightbeam makes a population health management platform for ACOs, IDNs and other risk-bearing entities. The Surescripts Medication History for Populations service will be available to Lightbeam’s clients, adding valuable insights on top of the robust analytics already available
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Tight Hospital Margins Continue Amid COVID-19 Concerns
What You Should Know:
- U.S. hospitals and health systems continued to experience tight margins in June, as rising expenses offset revenue and volume improvements—amid concern about the impact of the COVID-19 Delta variant—according to the latest issue of Kaufman Hall’s National Hospital Flash Report.
- The National Hospital Flash Report draws on data from more than 900 hospitals. Data from the report comes from Axiom’s Comparative Analytics from Syntellis
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ZocDoc Appoints Edward Liu as Chief Financial Officer
What You Should Know:
- ZocDoc, a healthcare marketplace, today announced the appointment of Edward Liu as its Chief Financial Officer.
- During his 20+ year tenure at Morgan Stanley, Liu advised CEOs, CFOs, and boards on their most important strategic and financing decisions, including hundreds of transactions for prominent internet and software companies.
- At ZocDoc, Liu will oversee all financial operations and help further scale the company amid its rapid growth. He joins the
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Syneos Health, Aetion Partner to Offer RWE Solutions to Advance Drug Development and Commercialization
What You Should Know:
- Aetion, a leader in real-world evidence analysis, and Syneos Health® (Nasdaq:SYNH), one of the largest CROs, announced a partnership to provide regulatory-grade data and analytics-driven solutions to advance drug development and improve patient outcomes.
- The partnership aims to generate meaningful real-world evidence (RWE) across all phases of the product lifecycle – introducing commercial expertise and insights far earlier in the clinical process – to
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Eko Appoints Renee Gaeta as Chief Financial Officer
What You Should Know:
- Eko, a cardiopulmonary digital health company, today announced the appointment of Renee Gaeta as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the executive leadership team. In her new role, Mrs. Gaeta will execute on the Eko’s priorities, accelerate growth and enhance value.
- Prior to joining Eko, Mrs. Gaeta previously served as CFO and member of the executive team at Establishment Labs Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESTA), where she played a key role in the company’s
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