Nursing facilities have evolved from rest homes to medical facilities over the last 20 years.
Patients are sicker, older, have more medical comorbidities, and are frailer. They require more assistance with activities associated with daily living and have much greater rates of cognitive impairment. People over 85 are the most rapidly expanding demographic and the elderly segment of the American population is expected to double in 2030 from 2010. Even with a shift to providing higher-intensity
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New Data on Massive, Sustained Growth of the Health & Wellness Industry
What You Should Know:
- In its latest edition of the Product Report, Amplitude Labs dives straight into results obtained from their exclusive Amplitude dataset, which shows how the product landscape has evolved from 2021 to 2022, including the product growth observed across 12 industries and eight countries.
- The report also highlights what the data suggests will be the 30 next hottest products across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Additionally, the report also covers how
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HLTH22 Day 2 News Summary: Amazon Clinic Launch, General Catalyst, Verizon, Higi
Amazon Launches Amazon Clinic Across 32 States
Amazon launches Amazon Clinic, a virtual care option that will operate across 32 states that offers up-front pricing, and treatment within hours, instead of days—helping customers achieve better health. Welcome to easy-to-use, effective care for common health conditions.
For customers, the cost of consultations will vary by provider and includes ongoing follow-up messages with their clinician for up to two weeks after the initial
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Exo Co-founder & Board Chair, Janusz Bryzek, Ph.D. Passes Away
What You Should Know:
Exo, a medical imaging software and device company, today announces the death of its Co-Founder and Board Chairman, Janusz Bryzek, Ph.D.
- Janusz passed away in his home on the morning of November 10, 2022, surrounded by his loving wife and three children.
Dr. Janusz Bryzek Bio & Impact
Commonly referred to as the “Father of Sensors” and the “Trillion Sensor Man,” Janusz was a renowned pioneer in the development of micro-mechanical integrated systems (MEMS)
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HLTH22: Amazon Launches Amazon Clinic Across 32 States
What You Should Know:
Today, Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Clinic, a virtual health service that will operate across 32 states to support more than 20 common health conditions.
Amazon Clinic will serve as a convenient virtual care option that offers up-front pricing, and treatment within hours, instead of days—helping customers achieve better health. Welcome to easy-to-use, effective care for common health conditions.
How It Works
To get started, customers select their
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HLTH22: AWS Launches Imaging, Health Analytics Capabilities
What You Should Know:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches two new capabilities in HealthLake that deliver innovations for medical imaging and analytics.
These new capabilities in Amazon HealthLake will enable next-generation imaging workflows in the cloud and derive insights from multi-modal health data, while complying with HIPAA, GDPR, and other regulations.
Amazon HealthLake Imaging
Amazon HealthLake Imaging is a new HIPAA-eligible capability that makes it easy to store,
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HLTH22: General Catalyst Adds 10 New Health System Partners
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare venture capital firm General Catalyst adds 10 new health system partners, bringing the number to 15 total.
- This first-of-its-kind strategic ecosystem will encapsulate 10% of the US population across 43 states (as well as the largest academic health system in the UK), with a goal to promote health assurance and deliver accessible, affordable and effective care.
Why It Matters
These partnerships will connect health systems directly with
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Included Health Launches All-Included Care™
What You Should Know:
- Included Health, a digital health company integrating navigation and virtual care unveiled the All-Included Care platform at HLTH22 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- All-Included Care is a new kind of healthcare service that guides and delivers high-quality, in-network care for every health journey, from simple to complex.
- By combining virtual care and access to in-person care with guidance and advocacy, All-Included Care creates a comprehensive and connected healthcare
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HLTH22: Turquoise Health Launches Price Transparency Data Solution
What You Should Know:
- Turquoise Health, an end-to-end healthcare pricing platform, today announced Simple Extracts, its first price transparency data product for specialty healthcare businesses. Simple Extracts allows anyone to request and receive precise searches from both the hospital and payer rates data warehouses.
- This new product eliminates the cost and technical barriers specialty businesses encounter by delivering data to customers directly within the Turquoise Health platform.
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The $2.8M Medicine: How Data Can Help Insurers Pay for Life-Changing Therapies Without Breaking The Bank
Advanced medical research has brought us to the point where many serious conditions can potentially be treated and even cured - with people who have essentially faced a lifetime of being incapacitated finally able to conduct normal lives. Many of these treatments are drug-based gene therapies–- but they come with an extremely high price tag. The latest example–and most expensive medication to date– is bluebird bio’s recently-approved $2.8 million gene therapy to treat a rare blood
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