What You Should Know:
- Orbita, a provider of virtual assistants for healthcare, announced a partnership with Isabel Healthcare that will improve patients’ digital experiences, helping them find the right care for their individual health circumstances. Isabel’s Symptom Checker/Triage utilizes every-day language to help patients access appropriate care with the right urgency.
- Many people who turn to technology when looking for a
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Steps for Preventing Medical Malpractice Risks
Doctors and other healthcare professionals are entrusted with the responsibility of safeguarding the health and well-being of their patients, ensuring they receive the highest quality of care. While healthcare professionals are expected to provide a certain standard of care, any deviation from that standard that results in harm or injury to a patient may leave them exposed to a medical malpractice claim.
The consequences of medical malpractice can be severe, and in some cases, can result in
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Pfizer Acquires Seagen for $43B to Tackle Cancer
What You Should Know:
- Pfizer announced it will acquire biotechnology company Seagen for $229 per Seagen share in cash, for a total enterprise value of approximately $43 billion. The proposed combination enhances Pfizer’s position as a leading company in Oncology.
Seagen’s medicines, late-stage development programs and pioneering expertise in Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs) strongly complement Pfizer’s Oncology portfolio.
Seagen Background
Seagen is a pioneer in ADC technology, with
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Sanofi to Acquire Diabetes Therapy Maker Provention Bio for $2.9B
What You Should Know:
- Sanofi has agreed to acquire Provention Bio, Inc., a U.S.-based, publicly traded biopharmaceutical company focused on intercepting and preventing immune-mediated diseases including type 1 diabetes (T1D), for $25.00 per share in cash, representing an equity value of approximately $2.9B.
- The acquisition is a strategic fit for Sanofi at the intersection of the company’s growth in immune-mediated diseases and disease-modifying therapies in areas of high unmet
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Q/A: Dr. Masturzo Talks Addressing Food Insecurity with Patients
Today, food insecurity affects more than 41 million Americans and is prevalent among children and the elderly population. Food insecurity is defined as the limited availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food or the inability to acquire these foods in socially acceptable ways. As a result, food insecurity can exacerbate medical conditions driving up hospital/health systems patient care costs. To learn more about how healthcare providers can address food insecurity, we sat down with Dr.
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Drug Development: Allucent Expands Use of Medidata Clinical Cloud
What You Should Know:
- Medidata announced that Allucent, a contract research organization (CRO) bringing innovation to biopharma companies, is expanding the global use of Medidata’s Clinical Cloud to advance its end-to-end clinical trial operations offering.
- The agreement expands Allucent’s existing utilization of Medidata technologies. These include Rave EDC, eCOA, RTSM,
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Fully Modular Medicaid System Enables Kansas to Achieve CMS Certification
What You Should Know:
- Gainwell Technologies (Gainwell), an innovator in healthcare technology solutions, announced that the nine-module Medicaid system it designed and implemented for Kansas is the first fully modular system to achieve the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Streamlined Modular Certification.
The deployment marks Kansas as the first state with a completely modular system to receive federal matching funds from the day
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Clarapath Acquires AI-Powered Digital Pathology Platform Crosscope
What You Should Know:
- Clarapath, a robotics company aimed at catalyzing change in the way pathology laboratories process human and animal tissue acquires Mountain View, CA-based Crosscope. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- Crosscope is a digital pathology company with a turnkey imaging solution providing best-in-class workflow tools and slide management along with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology to assist pathologists with better
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Health Gorilla Partners with CLEAR for Consumers to Access & Control Their Health Info
What You Should Know:
- Health Gorilla, a leading Health Information Network and interoperability provider, has partnered with CLEAR, a secure identity verification platform, to launch Individual Access Services, which allows consumers to access their personal health information securely.
- Health Gorilla will embed Powered by CLEAR to seamlessly verify a consumer's identity and provide them with secure and easy access to their health information. Friction-free identity
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Risky Business of Health Trackers: What Digital Health Leaders Need to Know
Gone are the days when healthcare information was only available to us at the doctor’s office or through the office's online portals, and that’s in part due to the rapidly growing popularity of wearable technology devices. It’s estimated that 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. use a fitness or health tracker to monitor things such as heart rate, blood pressure, sleep cycle, and stress. But this information is being used beyond just monitoring specific conditions. Take me, for example; I personally use my
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