Today, food insecurity affects more than 41 million Americans and is prevalent among children and the elderly population. Food insecurity is defined as the limited availability of nutritionally adequate and safe food or the inability to acquire these foods in socially acceptable ways. As a result, food insecurity can exacerbate medical conditions driving up hospital/health systems patient care costs. To learn more about how healthcare providers can address food insecurity, we sat down with Dr.
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National Kidney Foundation and Healthy.io Partner on Kidney Disease Detection
What You Should Know: - The National Kidney Foundation (NKF), a non-profit health organization and Healthy.io, a global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a clinical-grade medical device, announced a new effort to promote the detection of chronic kidney disease (CKD). - Through their partnership, the NKF and Healthy.io will offer Healthy.io's Minuteful Kidney™ at-home kidney test, free of charge, to people who are at risk for kidney disease. Healthy.io's Minuteful Kidney
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Signify Health, Cardinal Health Partner to Offer In-Home Medication Therapy Management
What You Should Know: - Signify Health announced a partnership with Cardinal Health, a medical device and pharmaceuticals supplier, to provide in-home medication therapy management to Medicare members. - In order to provide a more coordinated care experience and help members with their often-complex medication regimens, Signify’s mobile network of 11,000 credentialed clinicians will be able to offer medication management services for health plan members through in-home health evaluations
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Portfolia Invests in Xandar Kardian for Health Monitoring
What You Should Know: - Portfolia, the world’s most powerful community of women investors, has officially announced a significant investment in Xandar Kardian from the firm’s Active Aging I and Active Aging II funds. Portfolia’s investment represents a core contribution to Xandar Kardian’s $10 million Series A Funding round. - Portfolia sees Xandar Kardian’s impact extends well beyond the traditional hospital room, with impressive potential growth opportunities into a wider
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Healthy.io & Reset Kidney Health Partner on Comprehensive Virtual Kidney Care
What You Should Know: - Healthy.io, the global leader in transforming the smartphone camera into a medical device, and Reset Kidney Health, a hybrid care platform that offers gold-standard multidisciplinary care to patients with kidney disease, have announced a partnership that will give patients the option to utilize at-home, smartphone-powered kidney testing. - As part of the partnership, Reset will provide eligible patients with Healthy.io's Minuteful Kidney™ test to complete at
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New Healthcare H2 2022 Data: Reported Breaches Trend Down, But Individuals Affected Skyrocket by 35% to Nearly 29M
What You Should Know: - Critical Insight, the Cybersecurity-as-a-Service provider specializing in helping critical organizations Prepare, Detect, and Respond in today’s threat environment releases its H2 2022 Healthcare Data Breach Report, which analyzes breach data reported to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by healthcare organizations. - The number of data breaches affecting healthcare providers declined in the second half of 2022, consistent with a downward trend over
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The Quickening Pulse of the Ambulatory Diagnostic Cardiology Market
The Global Ambulatory Diagnostic Cardiology Market is evolving at a rapid pace, driven by technological developments, and shifting models of healthcare service delivery and funding. The overall market will grow from $2.5 billion in 2021, to $3.3 billion by 2026, with Long-Term ECG and, to a lesser extent, Mobile Cardiac Telemetry (MCT), being the principal engines of growth. Unsurprisingly, these two markets are garnering serious attention from large incumbent vendors in the more established
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Unintended Bias in AI-Driven Healthcare Applications
What You Should Know: - Over the past few years, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and more specifically, Machine Learning (ML) technology, have experienced rapid adoption in the healthcare space as tools for diagnosis and decision-making. Such tools are intended to address challenges in the healthcare system to both processes and put into practice the proliferating medical findings, and also to support delivery of the promise of personalized and precision medicine. - Unintended bias in AI and
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5 Things Every Smart Operating Room Should Prioritize – Surgery
The healthcare industry is in the middle of deep digital transformation across every aspect of the patient journey. Technology has always been important in healthcare, but COVID-19 has accelerated advancements, improving the way care is delivered. The pandemic also increased patient interest in being more involved in their healthcare decisions. And when patients are more involved, they are typically more satisfied with their experience and have better health outcomes. From remote patient
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Dexcom Ventures Invests in MedCrypt’s Medical Device Cybersecurity Platform
What You Should Know: - MedCrypt, the proactive cybersecurity solution provider for medical devices and manufacturers, will announce the close of a Series B extension round led by Dexcom Ventures, bringing the company's total to date to $36.4M. - With support from three major investors, Johnson & Johnson Innovations, Intuitive Ventures, and Dexcom Ventures, MedCrypt continues to lead the way in developing cybersecurity technologies and infrastructure for life-saving medical
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