Integrating video clips in the discharge process may enhance patients’ understanding and awareness of their condition. To determine the effect of video clip-integrated discharge discussion on patient comprehension of atrial fibrillation (AF) and deep…
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By Sara Heath
April 30, 2024 – More evidence is emerging indicating that generative AI helps lessen clinician burden by drafting patient portal message responses—but only if there’s a clinician there to review the response before…
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Teletherapy company Talkspace announced the launch of a Behavioral Health Consortium, an offering allowing clinicians to refer insured members with high-acuity needs to in-network specialty care providers for alcoholism, substance use and eating disorder…
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What You Should Know:
– Walmart announced today the difficult decision to close all 51 Walmart Health centers and discontinue its virtual care offering. This comes after five years of operation for the health centers.
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At present, pharmacogenomic tests are not available for all medications and are not widely employed as preventive measures in patient care. Globally, health insurance often does not even cover pharmacogenomic tests. This may change…
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What You Should Know:
– Philips and Nicklaus Children’s Health System, a leader in pediatric care, announced a groundbreaking 10-year collaboration focused on enhancing patient and staff experiences, improving outcomes, and driving innovation in pediatric…
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Independent clinical practices are in danger everywhere: if they don’t go out of business, large hospital chains tend to pipette them up. Bill Lucchini, CEO of Nextech, wants these independent practices to survive. Nextech’s…
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What You Should Know:
– Caris Life Sciences (Caris), a leader in AI-powered precision medicine, and COTA, Inc., a real-world data (RWD) and analytics expert, announced a strategic collaboration today.
– The strategic…
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reduced physical activity (PA) levels and increased sedentary behavior (SB), which can lead to worsening physical fitness (PF). Children and adolescents may benefit from mobile health (mHealth) apps…
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What You Should Know:
– Genomics plc, a leader in polygenic risk score (PRS) technology, and pharmaceutical giant GSK inks a new collaboration to explore the potential of PRS for optimizing clinical trial design.
– The…
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