While the pandemic has slowed, there appears to be no end in sight to the diabetes epidemic. The number of individuals diagnosed is projected to keep growing over the next decade. What’s more concerning is that 75% of patients don’t meet guideline-based goals for A1C, blood pressure, and cholesterol control. Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to serious complications like heart disease, kidney failure, blindness, and even amputations.
Thankfully, more patients are embracing technology-based
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Addressing Point-of-Care Ultrasound’s Shadow IT Problem
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is taking hold across healthcare, and for good reason. By administering ultrasound technology at the point of care, whether that be the patient’s bedside or an ambulance, POCUS prevents patients from being sent to another facility for imaging or waiting for a radiologist. That, in turn, enables more efficient workflows and faster diagnoses and treatment.
Multiple studies, from The Nurse Practitioner and the Annals of Medicine and Surgery, identify POCUS
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M&A: Accenture Acquires UK Digital Health Firm Nautilus
What You Should Know:
- Accenture announced it has acquired Nautilus Consulting, a digital healthcare consultant firm in the U.K. that specializes in Electronic Patient Record (EPR) solutions. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition will enhance Accenture’s digital transformation, implementation, and optimization capabilities across the U.K. and global healthcare space. As part of the acquisition, Nautilus will join Accenture’s Health Strategy
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Walgreens CEO Rosalind Brewer Steps Down, Interim CEO Appointed
What You Should Know:
- Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) CEO Rosalind Brewer is stepping down as CEO and a member of the board after only two years, as of August 31, 2023. Roz Brewer served as Chief Executive Officer of WBA since March 2021.
- The Board of Directors has appointed Ginger Graham, current Lead Independent Director of WBA, as the Company’s interim CEO. Ms. Brewer has agreed to continue to advise WBA while the Company conducts a search for a permanent CEO.
Rosalind Brewer
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The Self-Driving Clinical Trial: Optimizing Research with AI and ML
The power and potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the healthcare industry are unparalleled. The use of automated technology systems like digital workflows, orchestration and storing of data digitally is helping to shape their application, enabling far greater personalization of treatment for patients and greater efficiency and speed of clinical trials.
As the amount of health data increases, the possibility of establishing a self-driving clinical trial is
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Banner Health Taps evolvedMD to Bring Behavioral Health to Primary Care Sites in Phoenix
What You Should Know:
- Banner Health forms a strategic partnership with Phoenix-based evolvedMD to place mental-health providers at Banner’s primary-care clinics, making it easier for people to receive mental health services they may need.
- The integration of mental health services in primary-care settings will be phased in at Banner Medical Group sites throughout metro Phoenix, starting in the East Valley at Banner’s East Mesa and Queen Creek locations.
- Under the program, a
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Biofourmis’ Founder Steps Down As CEO, Amidst Company Layoffs
What You Should Know:
- Biofourmis founder and CEO Kuldeep Singh Rajput has quietly resigned as CEO, according to the company’s spokesperson. The company has appointed private equity investor General Altantic's Ben Wanamaker as interim CEO.
- Rajput’s abrupt exit comes after the Boston-based virtual care and digital medicine company laid off 120 employees.
- Founded in 2015, Biofourmis discovers, develops, and delivers clinically validated software-based therapeutics to provide better
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Viz.ai, UCSF to Commercialize 3 Cardiac AI Algorithms
What You Should Know:
- Viz.ai, an AI-powered disease detection and intelligent care coordination has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to commercialize three AI algorithms for the automated detection of cardiovascular diseases.
- Developed at UCSF by leading researchers, these AI algorithms to detect cardiac amyloidosis, pulmonary hypertension, and supraventricular tachycardia are based on analysis of electrocardiograms (ECGs), the
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Headspace & Intermountain’s Castell Form VBC Mental Healthcare Partnership
What You Should Know:
- Headspace, a comprehensive digital mental healthcare provider, and Castell, Intermountain’s value-based care subsidiary, have signed a value-based care (VBC) mental health partnership designed to improve health outcomes through a personalized care experience for members.
- The VBC mental health partnership will provide members with access to Headspace’s clinical offerings including their self-guided content, behavioral health coaching, and therapy in an
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Can Artificial Intelligence Replicate The Human Touch in Healthcare Provision?
Anyone who recalls the ‘turbo’ trend of the 1980s will have a foreboding sense of déjà vu about the sudden ubiquity of artificial intelligence in every aspect of our lives.
What began with the Swedish motor manufacturer, Saab, unveiling its 99 Turbo Coupé in 1977, suddenly had manufacturers scrambling for their own version of the latest technological buzzword in everything from alarm clocks to hairdryers.
The craze reached its apotheosis with the spoof launch, by Viz magazine, of the
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