What You Should Know:
- ECRI, the nation's largest non-profit patient safety organization, names communications gaps with recalls of home-use medical devices as the nation’s most pressing health technology safety issue for 2023.
- ECRI’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2023 list identifies the potential sources of danger that will warrant the greatest attention for the coming year and offers practical recommendations for reducing
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Selux Receives FDA Clearance for its Rapid Antibiotic Susceptibility Test (AST) System
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- Selux Diagnostics has been granted 510(k) clearance from the US FDA for its Next Generation Phenotyping (NGP) System — a rapid antibiotic susceptibility (AST) testing platform able to determine a bacteria’s susceptibility to a specific panel of antimicrobial agents.
- In vitro antimicrobial resistance test enables clinical labs to deliver targeted therapeutic results days faster than the current standard of care, clearing the path for personalized antibiotic
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Datavant Partners with Socially Determined to Optimize Social Risk on Patient Outcomes
What You Should Know:
- Socially Determined, the social risk analytics and data company partners with Datavant, a company helping organizations securely connect health data.
- The strategic partnership enables Socially Determined to provide curated, de-identified and linkable social risk data on the patient-level. This capability will empower life sciences organizations to comprehensively assess and systematically address the impact of social risk on health outcomes.
Why It
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Intermountain and Story Health Partner on Specialty Care for Patients with Heart Failure
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- Intermountain Healthcare and Story Health, a health technology and services company that provides scalable specialty care beyond the clinic, have entered into a strategic partnership to improve access to specialty care for patients with heart failure.
- The partnership combines Intermountain's leadership in clinical quality improvement and excellence in healthcare delivery with Story Health's specialty care platform solution to extend access to the high-quality heart
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Inflation, Recession Fears Increase Tension Between Healthcare Patients and Providers
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- Weave (NYSE: WEAV), the all-in-one customer communication and engagement platform for small- and medium-sized businesses, today announced new research, the 2023 Healthcare Business Insights Report, which examines how inflation and recession fears are impacting small healthcare offices, the patient experience and the strength of patient-provider relationships.
- The healthcare industry has become increasingly more competitive in the last five years. The sheer
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Medical Natural Language Processing Tech Has Come of Age
For many years, natural language processing (NLP) has held the promise of dramatically increasing the ability of healthcare organizations to quickly and accurately understand unstructured medical text in clinical notes. Using medical NLP, healthcare providers, clinical researchers, and payers would uncover meaningful insights hidden in unstructured text faster, with fewer errors, and at less cost than manual data review and analysis. This high-quality medical-grade data in turn would drive
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M&A: Arrive Health Acquires UPMC Enterprises Pharmacy Technology
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- Arrive Health, a provider of real-time benefit tools and integrated solutions that improve patient affordability, today announced the acquisition of a suite of innovative patient engagement and automation technologies developed by UPMC Enterprises and the UPMC Pharmacy Network.
- The acquisition adds AI-driven virtual assistant technology and a robust patient management system to its affordability offerings, expanding support for more than 200 million
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Included Health Partners to Deliver First-of-its-Kind LGBTQ+ Health Plan
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- Included Health today announced a partnership with Tufts Health Plan and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, both Point32Health companies, to provide fully integrated LGBTQ+ healthcare services, including gender affirming physical and mental health, to commercial health plan members. The partnership is a first-of-its-kind offering, embedding the LGBTQ+ health concierge service in the health plans of Point32 members.
- Effective as
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Orbita Launches Blaze to Convert Websites into Virtual Assistant
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- Orbita, a leading provider of intelligent virtual assistants and workflow automation for healthcare, launched a new solution set to transform the healthcare website experience. Orbita Blaze uses conversational AI and advanced search technology to interpret and address patients’ requests promptly and with precision, so they access the information and care they need.
- Poor healthcare web navigation has historically been a barrier to care, as 78%
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VisualDx Awarded Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Advance Global Health and Diagnostic Accuracy in Underserved Regions
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- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded VisualDx a new grant to develop diagnostic tools for surveillance, detection, and triage of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and other rare infectious diseases in India and Nigeria.
- This project comes on the heels of similar public health collaborations with HHS and the state of Vermont. It also marks the second Gates Foundation grant VisualDx has received, following a
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