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Primary Care Shifts to Pharmacy and Retail Clinic Settings, Survey Reveals

by Syed Hamza Sohail 12/12/2022 Leave a Comment

Primary Care Shifts to Pharmacy and Retail Clinic Settings, Survey Reveals

What You Should Know: - Primary care is continuing to decentralize with more decisions made outside of primary care offices, according to a recent report by Wolters Kluwer. - The Pharmacy Next: Health Consumer Medication Trends survey explores consumer sentiment amid this shift, and offers insight into what safeguards are needed to address their top concerns around medication-related care.  Research-Driven Prospects Regarding Changes in American Primary Healthcare The Pharmacy Next:
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Seven Bridges, USP, Google Cloud to Build A Brazilian Reference Genome

by Fred Pennic 04/21/2022 Leave a Comment

Golden Valley Memorial Goes Live on MEDITECH Expanse Genomics

What You Should Know: - Seven Bridges, a bioinformatics ecosystem provider, announced it is collaborating with the University of São Paulo (USP) and Google Cloud, as well as the Associação Genomas Brasil (Brazil Genome Association), to assist the DNA do Brasil (DNABr) project in building a reference genome that represents the genetic diversity of the Brazilian population. - The joint effort will advance unbiased precision medicine for underrepresented populations in Brazil through the
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Potential of Implementing Polygenic Risk Scores in Healthcare Systems

by Dr George Busby, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Allelica 04/06/2022 Leave a Comment

Challenges and Potential of Implementing Polygenic Risk Scores in US Healthcare Systems

The promise of personalized medicine is a world in which interventions, screening, and therapeutics are targeted to those most likely to get the disease. Polygenic risk scores will help society reach this ambition by accurately assessing the contribution that one’s DNA makes to disease risk.  When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that ‘all men are created equal,’ he captured the essential concept of equality on which the US Constitution is based. Although no one would
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30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

by Fred Pennic 12/30/2020 Leave a Comment

30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare executives to share their predictions and trends for 2021. Kimberly Powell, Vice President & General Manager, NVIDIA Healthcare Federated Learning: The clinical community will increase their use of federated learning approaches to build robust AI models across various institutions, geographies, patient demographics, and medical scanners. The sensitivity and selectivity of these models are outperforming AI models
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Super-Spreading of COVID-19 Co-Infections Reveals a Deadly Diagnostics Gap

by Oliver Schacht, PhD, CEO of OpGen 08/03/2020 Leave a Comment

Super-Spreading of COVID-19 Co-Infections Reveals a Deadly Diagnostics Gap

Secondary bacterial or fungal co-infections in COVID-19 patients have received inadequate attention from the public. For most, co-infections pose little to no risk according to reports that an estimated 8% of patients are found to experience this during hospital admission – a relatively low number compared to the global impact of the virus. However, once a patient enters a hospital for care or becomes ventilated while in the ICU, the risk for acquiring and spreading a deadly
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Using Health IT to Preserve Antibiotics and Fight Drug-Resistance

by Evan Jones, CEO of OpGen 03/10/2020 Leave a Comment

Using Technology to Preserve Antibiotics and Fight Drug-Resistance

In its latest report on antibiotic resistance, the CDC revealed that infection rates for many threat pathogens are stagnant or in a nominal decline. While this is promising news, there are still a startling 2.8 million cases of drug-resistant infections predicted this year, which will result in an estimated 35,000 deaths. What’s more, the speed at which some patients are developing resistance to last-resort antibiotics – those that are often reserved for special scenarios and designed
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5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Digital Pathology

by HITC Staff 11/22/2019 Leave a Comment

Clinical Operations Makes Highest Use of Artificial Intelligence, Tufts Study Finds

- As the digital pathology market grows, facilities that rely on digital pathology will start using artificial intelligence (AI) to assist. AI could help health professionals cope with the gigantic quantities of data - Discover why healthcare facilities increasingly realize that AI could help achieve significant impacts with digital pathology.Thanks to approvals from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for applications such as primary disease diagnosis, digital pathology is rapidly becoming
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StartUp Health Adds 6 New Healthcare Transformers to its Portfolio

by Fred Pennic 07/25/2019 Leave a Comment

StartUp Health Adds 6 New Healthcare Transformers to its Portfolio

StartUp Health, a platform where health transformers, partners, customers, investors, patients, and caregivers connect and accelerate the progress of the health moonshots announced it has added six new companies to its army of Healthcare Transformers.Every quarter, StartUp Health coaches its army of Health Transformers on how to create value, amplify their story, and ultimately achieve their Health Moonshot. Each company is supported for the entire journey of their business, through multiple
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Genomic Analysis Startup Genoox Raises $6M to Expand in the US Market

by HITC Staff 07/11/2017 Leave a Comment

Genomic Analysis Startup Genoox Raises $6M to Expand in the US Market

Genoox, the genomic analysis company making it easier for doctors, clinicians, and researchers to analyze and act on genetic sequencing data has raised $6 million in funding led by Inimiti Capital Partners and Glilot Capital Partners. With this investment, Genoox will also be expanding their genomic services into the U.S. healthcare market, providing medical facilities with innovative solutions to help solve real and pressing healthcare problems. Genoox has an international footprint, with a
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