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 News 10/13/23 – HIStalk
HIStalk - (Friday October 13, 2023) Top News FDA creates a nine-member Digital Health Advisory Committee that will advise it on topics such as AI, augmented and virtual reality, digital therapeutics, wearables, and remote patient monitoring technology.  Lessons Learned from a Hospital’s Closure Due to Ransomware Attack
HealthTech Magazine - (Friday October 13, 2023) Rural Healthcare Organizations Need Security Support |
 Walmart: Included Health Has Proved Its Value to Our Virtual Primary Care Program – MedCity News
MedCity News - (Thursday October 12, 2023) In announcing a large expansion of its virtual primary care program on Tuesday, Walmart strongly endorsed its health tech partner charged with providing that care to workers and their families enrolled in its health…  TikTok, Cleveland Clinic Partner on Accurate Mental Health Content
HIT Consultant - (Thursday October 12, 2023) What You Should Know: Cleveland Clinic announced a partnership with TikTok to help users find educational and accurate mental health content. As part of the paternship, TikTok users in the United States will begin to… |
 Sidekick Health acquires PDTx company and more digital health announcements
MobiHealthNews - (Thursday October 12, 2023) Digital care management platform Sidekick Health announced it acquired Hamburg-based aidhere, a prescription digital therapeutic for people with obesity. Sidekick develops personalized digital therapeutics and programs for chronic and lifestyle disease management, ranging from diabetes…  Noom Offers Clinical Obesity Management Platform to Employers – MedCity News
MedCity News - (Thursday October 12, 2023) Noom, a digital solution that supports weight loss, is now expanding its services for employers to include Noom Med, a clinical obesity management solution. The company made this announcement Monday at HLTH 2023 in… |
 Evernorth acquires tech platform Bright.md to enhance MDLIVE offerings
MobiHealthNews - (Thursday October 12, 2023) Insurer Cigna’s health services subsidiary Evernorth announced it acquired asynchronous platform Bright.md, which it will use to enhance the virtual care offerings of its portfolio company MDLIVE. Portland-based Bright.md offers an automated patient intake and…  Clinically informed machine learning elucidates the shape of hospice racial disparities within hospitals
npj Digital Medicine - (Thursday October 12, 2023) Racial disparities in hospice care are well documented for patients with cancer, but the existence, direction, and extent of disparity findings are contradictory across the literature. Current methods to identify racial disparities aggregate data… |
 Health M&A: Financial Distress Driving Q3 Healthcare Deals
HIT Consultant - (Thursday October 12, 2023) What You Should Know: – More than one-third of hospital and health system transactions announced in Q3 2023 involved a party that cited financial distress as a transaction driver, according to Kaufman Hall’s latest mergers…  FDA launches new Digital Health Advisory Committee
Healthcare IT news - (Thursday October 12, 2023) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced the creation of a new Digital Health Advisory Committee, which will gather “experts throughout the field who can help ensure our regulation of these exciting… |
