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Caraway, Ash Wellness Launch Partnership to Combat Rise in STIs on College CampusesMedCity News - (Tuesday February 14, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | In order to catch the attention of reporters, companies often look for creative news hooks to tie their announcements to. Two companies have decided to use Valentine’s Day to forward their message of sexually transmitted infection prevention. How romantic! Digital health startup Caraway Health is teaming up with at-home testing company Ash Wellness to provide STI kits for those aged 18 to 27, the companies announced Tuesday. New York City-based Caraway provides mental, physical and reproductive health services for Gen-Z populations, with a particular focus on women and people assigned female at birth. It offers an app that enables users to access its...
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Malaffi Events: AH 2023 at Philips- Dr Sanji de Silva, VP of Clinical Engagement and Informatics | |
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GSK’s Covid-19 Valentine to Vir Biotech: ‘You Can Go Your Own Way’MedCity News - (Tuesday February 14, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | Vir Biotechnology’s Covid-19 research may yield more drugs and perhaps a vaccine, but no longer with the financial support of GSK. The collaboration agreement the two companies struck up in the early days of the pandemic has been amended, leaving Vir to either find another partner or continue its coronavirus research on its own. The alliance did successfully develop the Covid-19 drug sotrovimab. GSK and Vir will continue to share responsibilities for that drug, which is available under the brand name Xevudy in more than 40 countries. The U.S. is no longer one of them. Last April, the FDA withdrew emergency authorization...
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Automated Feeding Platform to Study Mosquito Disease TransmissionMedgadget - (Tuesday February 14, 2023) - Daily Reads/ Medgadget | |
 | A team at Rice University has developed an automated feeding platform for mosquitoes that allows researchers to test different types of repellent and investigate mosquito-borne disease transmission. Traditionally, such mosquito research would require human volunteers or animal subjects for the mosquitos to feed on, but this is obviously inconvenient and a little distasteful. This new system dispenses with the need for human volunteers and associated laborious data collection and analysis. The technology consists of 3D printed synthetic skin with real blood that flows through small vessels. Mosquitos can feed through the skin and are kept in place in a surrounding [...]...
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Federal agencies offer updates on TEFCA, interoperability milestonesHealthcare IT news - (Tuesday February 14, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | On February 13, the government leaders thanked the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and six Qualified Health Information Networks (QHIN) for working to create a nationwide interoperability network under the 21st Century Cures Act. The 'Network of Networks' At the U.S. Department of Health and Human services, Secretary Xavier Becerra presented certificates of recognition to the CommonWell Health Alliance, eHealth Exchange, Epic TEFCA Interoperability Services, Health Gorilla, Kno2 and KONZA for moving into the pre-production testing process of the Trusted Exchange Framework and the Common Agreement. With the framework, ONC and the Sequoia Project, TEFCA's recognized coordinating entity, seek to establish...
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Electrochemical Sensor for Detailed SARS-CoV-2 Immunity DataMedgadget - (Tuesday February 14, 2023) - Daily Reads/ Medgadget | |
 | Researchers at the Harvard Wyss Institute have developed an electrochemical device, called the eRapid sensor, that can assist clinicians in quickly characterizing someone’s COVID-19 infection, including identifying the infecting viral variant and the nature of someone’s immunity to the virus in terms of whether it is vaccine-mediated or natural immunity. Monitoring these characteristics could help to personalize treatment for individuals and also provide data for drug development and inform government decisions on the best way to manage COVID-19 in the community. When antibodies from a blood sample bind within the device, it precipitates a biochemical cascade that affects the electrical [...]...
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Nanowire Assay Detects Brain Tumors from UrineMedgadget - (Tuesday February 14, 2023) - Daily Reads/ Medgadget | |
 | Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have developed a nanowire assay that can be used to capture and detect specific extracellular vesicles in a urine sample that indicate the presence of a brain tumor. These extracellular vesicles are naturally excreted in the urine but techniques to capture and analyze them have been complex, requiring different pieces of equipment, until now. This all-in-one assay uses a simple well plate that has been coated with zinc oxide nanowires that extracellular vesicles are attracted to because of their surface electrical charge. Then, the researchers can detect tumor-specific extracellular vesicles in each well using [...]...
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Epic, eHealth Exchange and CommonWell among HHS-approved QHIN candidatesHealthcare IT news - (Tuesday February 14, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ Healthcare IT News | |
 | A half-dozen organizations on Monday were approved by the Department of Health and Human Services as the inaugural batch of candidates to participate as qualified health information networks as part of ONC's Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement.During a Feb. 13 event at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, six healthcare organizations were approved to implement TEFCA as prospective QHINs: CommonWell Health Alliance, eHealth Exchange, Epic TEFCA Interoperability Services, Health Gorilla, Kno2, and KONZA National Network. In a blog post, National Coordinator for Health IT Micky Tripathi recognized those organizations, "for their willingness to voluntarily step up and meet the...
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Malaffi Events: Arab Health 2023 at Philips- Dr. Nasser Al Riyami, COO of Burjeel Medical City | |
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95% of Certified Health IT Developers Met ONC Cures Act DeadlineDistilINFO Hospital IT - (Tuesday February 14, 2023) - Daily Reads/ DistilINFO Hospital IT | |
 | – More than 95 percent of certified health IT developers met the Cures Act Final Rule compliance deadline to provide customers with new technology, according to an ONC HealthITBuzz blog post. The Cures Act Final Rule mandated many changes to the Certification Program, including four updates set to have long-lasting interoperability impacts on patients, clinicians, and developers. ONC Certified Health IT developers must: Advance interoperability for patients and providers through the use of FHIR-based application programming interfaces (APIs);Enable patients, providers, and other stakeholders to have access to consistent data elements represented in at least version one of the United States Core...
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