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- Kahun, an evidence-based clinical reasoning tool for physicians, announces the publication in the International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI) of a first-of-its-kind study assessing the data-gathering function of currently available chatbot symptom-checkers. Out of eight symptom-checkers—K Health, Babylon, ADA, Buoy, Kahun, Mediktor, Symptomae, and Your.MD.
- Kahun demonstrated the best overall performance in finding the most pertinent
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Medidata Expands Sensor Cloud Network
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- Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, and Boehringer Ingelheim, today announced a five-year renewal of their collaboration in the wider area of electronic data capture. The agreement extends the use of Rave EDC for Boehringer Ingelheim's clinical trials worldwide and includes myMedidata, Medidata’s suite of patient-facing technologies focused on enhancing patient centricity and diversity in decentralized clinical trials (DCTs).
- The
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Tempus Launches Real-World Data-Driven Program to Accelerate Precision Oncology Research
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- Precision Medicine company Tempus announced the launch of Tempus+, a program connecting medical centers across the U.S. like Stanford Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, and UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, to advance cancer research and provide access to Tempus’ library of more than five million de-identified research records.
- Tempus’ data library and data analytics platform, Lens, can now be used by researchers to
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HealthJoy Raises $60M for Healthcare Navigation Platform to Reduce HR Burden
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- HealthJoy, a healthcare navigation platform that drives benefits satisfaction, improves care outcomes, improves employee satisfaction and reduces HR burden raises $60M in Series D funding led by Valspring Capital with participation from new investors Endeavour Vision and CIBC Innovation Banking. Existing investors US Venture Partners, GoHealth co-founders Brandon Cruz and Clint Jones, Health Velocity Capital, Nueterra Capital and Epic also participated
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Sutter Health & Ada Integrate to Deliver AI Support for Mental Health
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- Sutter Health extends its partnership to global digital health company Ada - creators of the world’s most popular symptom assessment app to integrate digital triage into the mental health service, Scout by Sutter Health™ to help deliver AI-powered mental health support to young people.
- As many as half of all mental disorders begin by age 14. However, mental health concerns in
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Solera Health Launches First-of its-kind Women’s Health Offering for Payers & Employers
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- Solera Health announced the launch of the most comprehensive Women's Health network of digital and community point solutions for payers and employers.
- Solera’s unique Women’s Health network covers the full spectrum of women’s health needs, including those underserved by today’s market, to bring more access to women who need it, when they need it.
Solera’s New Women’s Health Network with 5
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Israeli AirForce Leverages AR/VR Therapy to Evaluate Pilots for Potential Neck Injuries
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- AirForce has selected XRHealth, the augmented reality/virtual reality gateway to the healthcare metaverse to evaluate pilots for potential neck injuries.
- The Air Medical Unit, one of the highest authorities dealing with airborne conditions, screens pilots before they enter the AirForce and regularly during their service, and has recently started to use the XRHealth AR/VR therapy medical device as a solution to evaluate and monitor neck
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CVS Health Taps ixlayer to Offer At Home Health Testing Kits for Consumers
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- ixlayer, a digital health company on a mission to make health testing more accessible by pairing at-home self-collection testing with digital experiences, announced it is now the platform for CVS Health branded at-home sample collection kits.
- Easily accessible to consumers, the easy-to-use kits provide convenient, affordable and quality testing for Vitamin D, Lyme disease, sexually-transmitted infections, and thyroid function – and offer next-best care
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Arine, Gemini Health Partner to Optimize Medications While Lowering Prescription Drug Costs
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- Arine - a next-generation medication intelligence company - and Gemini - a drug cost transparency platform - announced an integration that supports Blue Shield of California (Blue Shield) by combining each platform’s unique technology to deliver value-based care.
- The collaboration incorporates cost transparency information into Arine’s medication intelligence platform to empower care teams to provide highly personalized, data-driven medication consultations for
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The Gains and Pains of Using AI in the Pharmaceutical Industry
The costs for drug discovery and development are skyrocketing, but AI (artificial intelligence) is introducing new efficiencies to help find effective treatments faster.
A study in 2020 concluded that the estimated median capitalized research and development cost per product was $985 million. Contributing factors to this included larger trial sizes, the need to assess health technology, the requirement to provide data on comparative drugs’ effectiveness, and most
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