Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has become an integral part of modern healthcare, utilizing wearable devices to track patients' conditions outside the clinic or hospital setting. Devices like these collect critical information from patients, such as their heart rate, activity levels, and temperature, which providers can use for real-time insights to guide treatment and identify conditions proactively.
Due to the technology’s inherent advantages, providers and researchers have increasingly
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MIT Spun Out Layer Health Launches with $4M to Build the AI Layer for Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Layer Health, a healthcare AI company spun out of MIT, has been launched with $4M in funding from investors such as GV (Google Ventures), General Catalyst, and Inception Health.
- The company is focused on solving the information problem in healthcare by using AI to quickly perform any clinical, administrative, or research task that requires chart review from unstructured data.
Building the AI layer for healthcare — powered by large language models.
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NYU Langone Health Makes History with Successful Whole-Eye & Partial-Face Transplant
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- A surgical team at NYU Langone Health performed the world’s first whole-eye and partial-face transplant on a 46-year-old military veteran, Aaron James, who survived a high-voltage electrical accident at work.
- The 21-hour surgery was led by Dr. Eduardo D. Rodriguez, director of the Face Transplant Program at NYU Langone along with a team of more than 140 surgeons, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.. James had lost his left eye and suffered extensive facial
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In-Ear Wearable Measures Blood Flow to the Head for Long COVID POTS
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STAT Health emerges from stealth to introduce a 24/7 in-ear wearable that measures blood flow to the head to better understand symptoms such as dizziness, brain fog, headaches, fainting, and fatigue that occur upon standing.These are common symptoms for illnesses like long COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), and other orthostatic (caused by standing) syndromes that affect more
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Amazon Prime Launches One Medical Healthcare for $9 a Month
What You Should Know:
- Amazon Prime members can now get high-quality, convenient care from One Medical for $99 per year, saving $100 on the annual membership fee. The new One Medical membership covers unlimited access to 24/7 on-demand virtual care and in-person and remote primary care services.
- Prime members can add up to five additional memberships, each costing just $6 per month (or $66 annually—up to $133 off the standard fee). Prime members can go to health.amazon.com/prime to add
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IHS Awards $2.5B Contract to GDIT for Oracle EHR Implementation
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- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has selected General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) to build and maintain a new electronic health record (EHR) system utilizing Oracle Cerner technology. for the Indian Health Service (IHS). The new EHR system will replace the current Resource and Patient Management System, which is over 40 years old.
- The new EHR system will modernize IHS healthcare delivery and operations, making it easier for
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Better Data for Better Health Among Medicaid Recipients
During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, over 10 million Americans enrolled in Medicaid – nearly a 14% increase from the beginning of 2020. A month before the public health emergency ended on May 11, 2023, 87 million individuals were enrolled in Medicaid. The increase was driven by multiple factors, including the pause of all periodic eligibility reviews during the public health emergency. Now, all Medicaid enrollees face the return of the redetermination process by state agencies – the process
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What it Will Take To Trust Healthcare AI Models?
As ChatGPT and similar Large Language Model (LLM) tools gather and organize data in responses, it’s important to understand how the data they use has been curated. Medical science is constantly evolving, with previously accepted conclusions and standards being supplanted by newer information. Yet the outdated and sometimes disproven body of literature is often still quite large.
For example, external carotid to internal carotid (EC/IC) bypass for cerebral ischemia due to cerebrovascular
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Prescribing Trends Surge: Wegovy & Ozempic Gain Popularity, Survey Shows
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- Prescriptions for the popular weight loss drug Wegovy showed a six-fold increase between December 2022 and June 2023, according to a recent analysis of prescribing trends by DrFirst.
- Prescriptions for Ozempic, the lower-dose version for treating diabetes, increased by 65% during the same period among doctors on the DrFirst prescribing network.
- DrFirst's network includes over 350,000 prescribers across the U.S., including 260,000 doctors, who use their
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Olive Shutters Business After Sale to Waystar and Humata Health
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- Healthcare automation company Olive today announced it will shut down its business after selling its Clearinghouse and Patient Access business units to Waystar and its Prior Authorization business unit to Humata Health. Olive sold off its utilization management solution and business unit to Availity and business intelligence solution to BurstIQ earlier this year.
- Founded in 2012, Olive is a developer of an artificial intelligence workforce, automated
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