What You Should Know:
- epocrates, an athenahealth, Inc. company that delivers digital clinical decision support to healthcare professionals, today announced the release of Bugs + Drugs, a mobile tool that offers clinicians information about bacteria types and antibacterial susceptibility patterns by ZIP code.
- A free feature in the epocrates mobile app, the tool supports clinicians in choosing appropriate empiric antibiotics for each patient at the point of
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CVS Health to Acquire Signify Health for $8B
What You Should Know:
- CVS Health announced it will acquire Signify Health for $30.50 per share in cash, representing a total transaction value of approximately $8B.
- Signify Health's clinicians and providers can have an even greater impact by engaging with CVS Health's unique collection of assets and connecting patients to care how and when they need it.
Advancing CVS Health’s Value-Based Care Long-Term Strategy
Signify Health is a provider of Health Risk Assessments, value-based
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Why Healthcare Needs Tech-Enabled Human Intervention
There's a "perfect storm" facing healthcare today: Chronic disease prevalence, physician shortages, and a growing population aging into Medicare are set to overwhelm our healthcare system if action isn't taken. Over 133 million Americans have at least one chronic disease, and as that number continues to rise, delivering adequate care to these patients has never been more challenging. It's widely understood that factors beyond the clinic primarily influence health. Yet the expectation remains
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Solve.Care Unveils Web3.0 Development for Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Solve.Care, the healthcare blockchain platform company, has announced their Care.Labs Wallet, the revolutionary Web3.0 development which is set to revitalize the healthcare industry.
- This is the most compelling, accessible and user-friendly blockchain use case in the transformation of healthcare across the globe, with practitioners and institutions authoring their Care.Networks from Korea to the USA
Causing Breakthroughs in Medicine Using
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How AI and Automation Will Solve America’s Healthcare Administration Crisis
As the existential crisis facing American healthcare reaches a fever pitch, here's how executives can use automation to build resiliency
The American healthcare system is in crisis. There are a huge number of tasks to be completed, and not enough people to do them. Costs are rising, and health systems are finding themselves facing difficult choices.
An enormous amount of time, money, and resources are being devoted to paper shuffling that would be better spent elsewhere. Healthcare
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DeliverHealth Exec Talks Combatting Physician Burnout with Automation Tech & Data
Provider burnout has shown no signs of slowing down in the past couple of years - a fact proven by a recent report found that 45% of physicians have been experiencing burnout over the past two years. As providers and healthcare organizations continue to face burnout, staffing shortages and financial pressures, they must find a way to reduce administrative burdens while allowing for more time spent on patient care with an ultimate end goal of reducing burnout.
We recently spoke with
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Japanese Startup Ubie Secures $26M for AI-Powered Symptom Checker
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- Ubie, a Japan-based digital health startup raises $26.2 M in Series C funding to bring unprecedented medical experience by strengthening partnerships with pharmaceutical companies in Japan and the US.
- Led by a team of talented developers and medical doctors, Ubie uses a machine-learning algorithm and offers Ubie AI Symptom Checker, allowing patients to check on their symptoms and determine the next appropriate course of action for free.
AI-Powered Symptom
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Plume Raises $24M for Gender-Affirming Virtual Care to Support Trans & Gender Diverse Community
What You Should Know:
- Plume, a provider of virtual care services purposefully designed for the health care needs of the transgender community raises $24M in Series B funding led by led by Transformation Capital with participation from General Catalyst and Townhall Ventures.
- Plume plans to use the latest round of funding to fulfill its mission to transform health care for every trans life by creating access to high-quality, safe gender-affirming care.
Expanding
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Using AI to Match Patients with Clinical Trials for Proactive Treatment
We are entering a new era of patient treatment options thanks to cutting-edge technologies that are changing the way life science companies approach and execute pharmaceutical research. One of the more significant solutions that support the faster and more efficient development of new pharmaceutical products – such as the COVID-19 vaccine, which was developed faster than any other vaccine in history – is artificial intelligence (AI)-driven data analysis. Thanks to modern life science technology
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Ion and Houston Methodist to Open Healthcare Innovation Tech Hub
What You Should Know:
- Houston Methodist joins the Ion as its first healthcare-centric partner in its growing innovation hub.
- The hospital will build out a space at the Ion modeled after Houston Methodist’s Center for Innovation Technology Hub located at its flagship hospital in the Texas Medical Center to showcase the latest in healthcare innovation.
Opening a New Window Into the Future of Healthcare
The Ion anchors a 16-acre innovation district, the epicenter for
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