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Ensuring digital health solutions help, not harmMobiHealthNews - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - AI/ Frequent Updates/ MobiHealthNews | |
 | A healthcare risk prediction algorithm used on more than 200 million people across the country was found to demonstrate racial bias.One-third of the top 100 hospitals in the U.S. were found to be using a tracking tool called Meta Pixel to collect and send patients’ personal health information to Facebook without their consent. Pulse oximeters – digital products that use infrared light beams to measure the amount of oxygen in the blood – have transformed the way we care for people with conditions from heart failure to COVID, but are inaccurate for people with dark skin. How do these egregious practices pass through...
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Digital as the Differentiator for Biopharma and MedtechMedCity News - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | With the Inflation Reduction Act now on the books, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin negotiating drug prices with the pharmaceutical industry. That, combined with other headwinds such as increased competition from me-too drugs, and ever-present pricing pressure from payers, means that pharma players now more than ever need a new and powerful tool to differentiate their products. We believe the next decade of transformation is digital. Learning from the auto industry Almost every industry has had to confront a fundamental existential question: What is our product? Consider the automotive industry, which once was largely about hardware...
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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 2/16/23HIStalk - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - Daily Reads/ HIStalk | |
 | As we approach the end of the declared emergency surrounding the COVID pandemic, it will be important to assess how shifts in healthcare policies including those involving payment, access, and prescription medications will impact health outcomes. A recent article in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Maternal-Fetal Medicine looked at hos telehealth care impacted racial disparities in visit attendance during the pandemic. As background, the US has a terrible track record for maternal care, with maternal mortality rates that are significantly higher than other high-income countries. Additionally, in the US black woman are more likely to die during pregnancy and...
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Elation Health Buys Medical Billing Company to Create All-in-One Tech Platform for Primary Care ProvidersMedCity News - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | Elation Health — a San Francisco-based company that sells its electronic health record (EHR) and other technology solutions to primary care providers — on Thursday announced its acquisition of medical billing firm Lightning MD. The deal will help Elation become an all-in-one technology platform for primary care offices, CEO Kyna Fong said in a recent interview. Fong founded Elation with her brother in 2010. The siblings grew up in Canada, where their father was a primary care physician — and a passionate one. He was so passionate that he ended up moving his family to the U.S. because he couldn’t “practice the...
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How to Leverage Diagnostic Development to Guard Against RSV, Flu and Covid-19 [Sponsored]MedCity News - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | For the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare professionals focused on understanding the Covid-19 virus, how best to guard against it, and developing tests to detect it. They also tracked, aggregated, and analyzed health data to assess and monitor the public health threat on a regional, state and country-wide level. In the longer term, vaccine development and distribution were used to slow the spread to avoid a collapse of the health system and to reduce the potency of the virus for the majority of people. More recently, attention has shifted to the long perceived threat of viruses coming together with...
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Oracle Signs Contract with Accenture to Improve VA Cerner EHR TrainingDistilINFO Hospital IT - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - Daily Reads/ DistilINFO Hospital IT | |
 | Oracle has signed a contract with Accenture to improve the training clinicians receive on using the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Cerner EHR platform, according to reporting from FedScoop. Oracle-owned Cerner had determined it...
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Odds of Hospital Readmission 34% Higher for Black Heart Attack PatientsDistilINFO Hospital IT - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - Daily Reads/ DistilINFO Hospital IT | |
 | The risk of hospital readmission after a heart attack is markedly higher for Black people than White, a trend researchers said in JAMA Network Open should prompt further investigation into how systemic racism and...
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Mylab leverages Qure.ai’s tech to enhance TB screeningMobiHealthNews - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MobiHealthNews | |
 | Indian biotech company Mylab Discovery Solutions is integrating Qure.ai's AI technology into its upcoming x-ray device for screening tuberculosis.According to a press statement, MyBeam is a compact, lightweight device equipped with high-frequency technology for detecting TB. It will be powered by Qure.ai's deep-learning software qXR to analyse chest x-ray images and identify TB within a minute. WHY IT MATTERS India is one of the biggest contributors to global TB cases, accounting for 26% of the total global count and 34% of all TB deaths. By leveraging technological innovation, both Mylab and Qure.ai aim to support the Indian government's goal of eliminating TB by 2025. Their integrated...
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Morning Headlines 2/16/23HIStalk - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - Daily Reads/ HIStalk | |
 | February 15, 2023 Headlines No Comments CPSI Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Results CPSI reports Q4 results: revenue up 12%, adjusted EPS $0.61 versus $0.58, beating analyst expectations for both. Cyber attack exposes personal data of approximately 1 million Community Health Systems patients Hospital management company Community Health Systems (TN) begins notifying patients of a cyberattack on its third-party cybersecurity vendor Fortra, which may have exposed patient information. CommonSpirit Health Releases FY2023 Q2 Financial Results CommonSpirit Health reports a $474 million Q2 operating loss, some of which it attributes to the October ransomware attack that took its systems offline for nearly a...
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Blood Biotech Grifols Cuts Deep in the U.S. to Find €400M in SavingsMedCity News - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | Grifols, a company that turns blood plasma into therapies for immunological disorders and other conditions, is laying off about 2,000 U.S. workers as part of a corporate restructuring projected to yield up to €400 million in annual cost savings, the biotech announced Wednesday. The layoffs represent about 8% of the Barcelona-based company’s global workforce, but they will happen mainly in its U.S. plasma operations. That’s notable because as a company that relies on plasma, the U.S. is vital to its business. The starting point for Grifols’s therapies is blood plasma. Key to its drug-making process is fractionation, in which the protein components...
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