What You Should Know:
- Pear Suite, a digital health company that empowers community health workers (CHWs), and Instacart, a grocery technology company, have announced a partnership to bring "food-as-medicine" solutions to communities across the country.
- The collaboration will enable thousands of CHWs to address food insecurity and increase access to fresh and healthy foods for Medicaid members.
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Pear Suite provides thousands of CHWs nationwide with
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Acentra Health Launches Safe AI in Medicaid Alliance (SAMA) to Develop AI Governance Frameworks
What You Should Know:
- Acentra Health, a technology and health solutions company launches of the Safe AI in Medicaid Alliance (SAMA). SAMA was created with input and participation from the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA), the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), Amazon Web Services (AWS), McKinsey & Co., Arcadia, and the Acentra Health Healthcare Advisory Board.
- The new initiative brings together Medicaid leaders, policy experts, and technology
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WeightWatchers Launches Menopause Program with Queen Latifah
What You Should Know:
- WeightWatchers, has announced the launch of WeightWatchers for Menopause, a new program designed to support women through every stage of their menopause journey.
- To launch the program, the company is partnering with Grammy and Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated actress and producer Queen Latifah as its first official spokesperson.
WeightWatchers for Menopause Program
The WeightWatchers for Menopause program takes a comprehensive approach, combining the
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Signos Launches First FDA-Cleared Glucose Monitoring System for Weight Management
What You Should Know:
- Signos, a metabolic and weight management company, has announced the launch of the Signos Glucose Monitoring System.
- The system is the first FDA-cleared, over-the-counter glucose monitoring system for weight management. It is also the first non-pharmacological approach cleared by the FDA for glucose management that not only helps those who are overweight but also helps prevent those who are at-risk.
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Living Optics and NVIDIA Jetson Showcase Real-Time Hyperspectral Imaging
What You Should Know:
- Living Optics, a leader in hyperspectral imaging (HSI), has announced its latest real-time blood perfusion demonstration, which was built on the NVIDIA Jetson platform. The demonstration offers a glimpse into the future of edge AI for healthcare, life sciences, and precision imaging.
- The live demo showcases how the company’s spectral vision technology can distinguish between oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in real-time. This capability provides critical
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US Court Allows Particle’s Antitrust Claims Against Epic to Proceed
What You Should Know:
- A U.S. District Court judge in the Southern District of New York, Judge Naomi Buchwald, has allowed Core Antitrust Claims against Epic to proceed.
- The ruling found that Particle Health, a healthcare data platform, may move forward with its claims that Epic holds a monopoly in the payer platform market with a 90% market share and has engaged in anti-competitive conduct. The ruling marks as the first time an antitrust case against Epic has progressed
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SoundHound AI Partners with Primary Health Solutions to Deploy AI Patient Engagement Platform
What You Should Know:
- SoundHound AI, Inc., a global leader in voice and conversational AI, has partnered with Primary Health Solutions (PHS) to deploy a new AI-powered patient engagement platform.
- The initiative makes PHS one of the first Federally Qualified Healthcare Centers in the U.S. to use AI Agents to create a more seamless and engaging patient experience.
Denise: Conversational AI Platform
The new conversational AI platform, named "Denise" in honor of a PHS
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Senseonics to Take Over Eversense 365 Commercialization from Ascensia
What You Should Know:
- Senseonics Holdings, a medical technology company specializing in implantable continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems, has announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ascensia Diabetes Care to transition all global commercialization and distribution of its Eversense 365 and future products to Senseonics. Since 2020, Ascensia, a member of PHC Group, has held the exclusive worldwide distribution rights for Eversense products.
This strategic move is
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Oracle Confirms Layoffs in Kansas City
What You Should Know:
- Several Kansas City area-based employees at Oracle have received layoff notices, according to at least two sources with knowledge of the company's actions, KMBC reports. The company, which is now headquartered in Nashville, did not announce a total number of layoffs, but sources confirmed that several long-tenured employees have lost their jobs.
- The latest round of workforce reductions comes three years after Oracle's acquisition of healthcare technology
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Medable Launches Agent Studio, the First Agentic AI Platform for Life Sciences
What You Should Know:
- Medable, a technology provider for clinical development, has launched Agent Studio, which it calls the industry's first agentic AI platform purpose-built for life sciences.
- Agent Studio is a no-code agent-builder that allows clinical teams to quickly custom-configure AI agents. Medable also introduced CRA Agent, a pre-built agent designed for clinical trial monitoring that runs on the Agent Studio platform. Both Agent Studio and CRA Agent are intended
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