In recent years the technological field has taken revolutionary steps to balance out gender disparities. This has led to the advent of a female-centric health technology market that utilizes tech as a proponent for women's health and overall wellness.
You must have seen (or at least heard of) an app that focuses explicitly on women's issues. These tools are part of a growing collaboration between health and technology known as femtech. Areas that are currently represented include sex and
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AstraZeneca, CCT Partner to Conduct COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trials in Arizona
What You Should Know:
- AstraZeneca and CCT announce a partnership to conduct
COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials in Arizona with 1,500 participants.
CCT Research (CCT), a leader in community-based, embedded clinical research, today announced its partnership with AstraZeneca to advance COVID-19 research. Together with local healthcare providers, CCT will facilitate clinical trials for the AZD1222 COVID-19 VACCINE,
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Providence Taps Nuance to Develop AI-Powered Integrated Clinical Intelligence
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications, Inc. and one of the country’s
largest health systems, Providence, announced a strategic collaboration,
supported by Microsoft, dedicated to creating better patient experiences and ease
clinician burden.
- The collaboration centers around Providence harnessing
Nuance’s AI-powered solutions to securely and automatically capture
patient-clinician conversations.
- As part of the expanded partnership, Nuance and
Providence will jointly
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NeuroFlow Joins Epic App Orchard for Behavioral Health Integration
What You Should Know:
- NeuroFlow,
the leader in technology-enabled behavioral health integration, is now
available to healthcare providers through Epic’s App
Orchard marketplace. NeuroFlow combines provider workflow augmentation
solutions, clinical care dashboards, and a patient-facing application to create
a clinical feedback loop centered around behavioral health.
- Patient generated data including validated assessment
scores, mood and sleep ratings, and journal
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WELL Health Integrates with Cerner’s Patient Portal to Simplify Patient Communication
What You Should Know:
- Cerner is striking a deal with patient communication
hub company WELL Health to change its patient communication technology for its
provider customers.
- Through Cerner’s HealtheLife, the new capabilities will
pull from a myriad of systems and apps to help improve communication and reduce
administrative time for clinicians and staff.
Cerner Corporation, a global health care technology company, today announced new capabilities designed to take the interaction
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M&A: RxVantage Acquires onPoint Oncology to Expand Offering to Oncology Practices
What You Should Know:
- RxVantage has acquired onPoint Oncology to provide cancer care teams with on-demand access to educational resources, reimbursement data, and analytics.
- The acquisition of onPoint Oncology builds on
RxVantage’s rapidly expanding digital offerings for providers. In April,
RxVantage launched Virtual Meetings to help providers reestablish access to
life science experts amidst the disruptions caused by COVID-19.
RxVantage, the
leading digital
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HST Pathways and Casetabs Merge to Form ASC Practice Management Powerhouse
What You Should Know:
- HST Pathways and Casetabs announce merger to power surgical communication combined with the industry leader in ASC practice management.
- The combined company is supported by a majority investment led by private equity company Bain Capital Tech Opportunities with a minority investment from Nexxus Holdings.
HST Pathways (“HST”)
and Casetabs, two leading providers of
innovative, cloud-based software for ambulatory surgery centers (“ASCs”)
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FDA Awards Eli Lilly Emergency Use Authorization for Antibody to Treat COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Eli Lilly is awarded Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) by the FDA for its monoclonal antibody for the treatment of recently diagnosed, mild to moderate COVID-19 in high-risk patients.
- U.S. government
will allocate 300,000 doses of bamlanivimab to high-risk patients, with no
out-of-pocket costs for the medication.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today granted
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Eli
Lilly and Company's (NYSE: LLY)
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VHA, Ontrak Launch 3-Year AI Study to Help Prevent Veteran Suicide
What You Should Know:
- The Veterans Health Administration has selected Ontrak
in collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Brown University to transform
suicide prevention care for veterans.
- Leveraging AI developed by a Harvard Medical School
professor and the core analytics of the Ontrak platform, the three-year study
will look at the effect of intensive care coaching in addition to the standard
of care for veterans at high risk of suicide after inpatient hospitalization at
a
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ASN, HHS Launches KidneyX COVID-19 Kidney Care Challenge
What You
Should Know:
- The HHS and the American Society of Nephrology announces the launch of the COVID-19 Kidney Care Challenge.
- The $300k
challenge aims to identify and share these frontline solutions so all
communities can benefit. Winners will receive $20,000 each in recognition of
their solutions.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
and the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) launched the KidneyX COVID-19 Kidney
Care Challenge . The $300,000
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