Amazon.com, Inc. today announced the expansion of its foothold into the pharmacy business with two new pharmacy offerings to help customers conveniently purchase their prescription medications. Amazon Pharmacy, a new store on Amazon, allows customers to complete an entire pharmacy transaction on their desktop or mobile device through the Amazon App.
Here are six key things to know about this landmark
announcement:
1. Using a secure pharmacy profile, customers can add their insurance
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How COVID-19 Has Revealed Healthcare’s Blockchain Use Cases
Blockchain technology has somewhat infamously been described as “a solution in search of a problem,” but as the healthcare industry responds to the demands of the pandemic, several valuable use cases have surfaced that could benefit from employing the emerging technology.
Due in large part due to its ability to promote trust, transparency, and privacy, blockchain has emerged as today’s best technology-based option for accomplishing the important objective of delivering real-time
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Future of Femtech and Technology: An Emerging Innovative Crossroads
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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AliveCor Lands $65M to Advance Remote Cardiology Platform Worldwide
What You Should Know:
Today AliveCor, the leader in AI-based, personal ECG
devices and cardiology platforms, announced they closed $65 million in Series E
funding to accelerate its growth.
To date, AliveCor’s FDA-cleared Kardia devices have
recorded more than 85 million ECGs. Since the pandemic began, nearly 15 million
ECGs were taken which is an increase of 70% year-over-year.
AliveCor, a Mountain
View, CA-based provider of AI-based
personal ECG technology and provider of enterprise
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Medtronic Launches Smart Insulin Pen Integrated with Real-Time CGM Data
What You Should Know:
- Medtronic,
the global leader in medical technology, announced the launch of InPen
integrated with real-time Guardian
Connect Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) data.
- InPen is the first and only FDA-cleared smart insulin pen
on the market for people on multiple daily injections (MDI).
- The combined solution now provides real-time glucose
readings alongside insulin dose information giving users everything they need to
manage their diabetes in one view.
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Gates Foundation Awards Caption Health $4.95M Grant to Develop AI-Guided Lung Ultrasound System
What You Should Know:
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards Caption
Health a $4.5M grant to support the development of an AI-guided lung ultrasound
system.
- The grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
will be leveraged to create new AI technology that allows medical professionals
without prior ultrasound experience to perform lung ultrasounds, expanding
access to quality medical care.
Caption Health, a leading medical
artificial intelligence (AI) company, today
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Mount Sinai Develop Machine Learning Models to Predict Critical Illness and Mortality in COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Mount Sinai researchers have developed machine learning models that predict the
likelihood of critical events and mortality in COVID-19 patients within
clinically relevant time windows.
- The new machine learning models were outlined in a recent study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research—could aid clinical practitioners at Mount Sinai and across the world in the care and
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Mobile Point-of-Care Ultrasound Is Now A Frontline Warrior in Pandemic
Health authorities need to prioritize delivery and the repurposing of mobile point-of-care ultrasound machines which have proven to be reliable, affordable, and effective in saving the lives of coronavirus patients.
Most Americans are familiar with ultrasound technology from the scans done to check on the status of the fetus during pregnancy.
But far fewer are aware of how valuable mobile versions of these units have also become in America’s emergency rooms where they almost
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Buoy Health Raises $37.5M to Expand AI-Powered Healthcare Navigation Platform
What You Should Know:
- Buoy Health raises $37.5 million in Series C funding to
expand it’s AI-powered healthcare navigation platform, bringing its total raised
to date at $66.5M.
- Buoy will use the proceeds to further build out its IP with respect to artificial intelligence and other technologies, as well as grow the Buoy team.
Buoy Health, a
Boston, MA-based AI-powered
healthcare navigation platform, today announced the completion of a $37.5
million Series C funding round. Cigna
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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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