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 Smart Sutures Sense Inflammation, Deliver Drugs, Cells |
Medgadget - (Tuesday May 30, 2023) Researchers at MIT have developed smart sutures with a hydrogel coating that contains sensing and drug delivery components, and could even be used to implant therapeutic cells. The sutures are made using pig tissues…  siRNA as a COVID-19 Treatment |
Medgadget - (Tuesday May 30, 2023) Researchers at UMass Chan Medical School have developed a small interfering RNA (siRNA) technology that is stable enough for inhalation into the lungs, where it can potentially treat diseases as diverse as asthma, pulmonary… |
 Employer-focused specialty care platform Carrum Health scores $45M
MobiHealthNews - (Tuesday May 30, 2023) California-based Carrum Health, a digital marketplace allowing employers to purchase bundled healthcare services, has received $45 million in Series B funding led by OMERS Growth Equity.Revelation Partners participated in the round alongside existing investors…  Burnout Continues To Crush Clinicians, But Voice Tech and AI Could Help – MedCity News
MedCity News - (Tuesday May 30, 2023) Clinicians — including doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals — face high levels of stress and burnout due to the nature of their work, with about half of all healthcare workers reporting burnout in… |
 Federal Grant to Bolster Neonatal Research Consortium
Health IT Analytics - (Tuesday May 30, 2023) By Shania Kennedy May 30, 2023 – The University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences won a renewal of a federal grant to participate in the Neonatal Research Network, a data-sharing consortium focused on improving care…  Low-Income, Racial Minorities More Likely to Use Telehealth
mHealth Intelligence - (Tuesday May 30, 2023) By Mark Melchionna May 30, 2023 – Published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, study findings indicate that certain demographic factors correlate with telehealth use, with low-income Hispanic and Asian patients being more likely to… |
 Carrum Health Closes $45M Series B to Scale Oncology & Acute Surgical Care
HIT Consultant - (Tuesday May 30, 2023) What You Should Know: Value-based healthcare platform Carrum Health today announced an oversubscribed $45 million Series B financing led by OMERS Growth Equity.The funding will be used to scale the company’s oncology and surgical care…  AHA Urges OCR to Suspend or Amend Online Tracking Guidance
Health IT Security - (Tuesday May 30, 2023) By Jill McKeon May 30, 2023 – The American Hospital Association (AHA) urged the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to reconsider its December 2022 Online Tracking Guidance, suggesting that its definition of protected health information… |
 HIE Boosts Care Coordination, Home Discharge Among Older Adults
EHR Intelligence - (Tuesday May 30, 2023) By Hannah Nelson May 30, 2023 – Health information exchange (HIE) may mitigate information discontinuity present in fragmented readmissions, according to a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.  The End of One Health Crisis Must Not Lead to a New One
HIT Consultant - (Tuesday May 30, 2023) Paula LeClair, U.S. General Manager of Healthy.io Three years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the Public Health Emergency (PHE) enacted in the United States came to an end this May. As… |
