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Transcarent, which offers employee healthcare benefits navigation services, acquires rival Accolade for $621 million in cash.
ACCD shares have lost 78% in the past 12 months and are down 90% since the company’s…
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Transcarent to acquire Accolade for $621 million
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Transcarent, an employee healthcare navigation company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire health benefits platform Accolade for about $621 million, or $7.03 per share in cash.The Boards of Directors…
New Innovations: Chemo Cargo Load Against Common Skin Cancer Moves Forward
Dr. Raza Bokhari, the CEO of Medicus Pharma, a biotech/life sciences company focused on accelerating the clinical development of SkinJect joins eHealth Radio and the Cancer Information and Health News Channels. This small skin…
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CHAI launches open-source healthcare AI nutrition label model card
The Coalition for Health AI has announced the availability of the open-source version of its artificial intelligence Applied Model Card on GitHub. The healthcare industry-led coalition said Thursday it designed the card to enable healthcare…
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eHealth Exchange National Conference Dec 2024
eHealth Exchange, a non-profit started by Health & Human Services and now a separate non-profit, helps health care institutions exchange over two billion records a month. In this video, President Jay Nakashima explains the…
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Insights: Cloud
Macdonald is unimpressed by the claim that the big public cloud providers’ investment and expertise in security means they are the safest option for NHS organisations. “The multi-tenanted nature of cloud means nobody cares…
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Online hub launched to help patients understand Lynch Syndrome
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have teamed together to launch a digital resource for patients on diagnosing Lynch Syndrome.
Lynch Syndrome is an inherited condition that increases the risk…
Iron Man’s J.A.R.V.I.S. for doctors?
2024 saw the rise of many generative AI applications in various industries, including healthcare, driving work and operational efficiencies like never before. It is also one of the technology solutions that came out of an…
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Revolutionising Perioperative Care: Q&A with Simon Rang and Michelle Rose
At Digital Health Rewired 2025, Dr Simon Rang and Michelle Rose will share insights into how East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) is transforming perioperative care. They’ll highlight the use of innovative…
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Avoid These 6 Healthcare Survey Mistakes in 2025
Adam Berinsky, Mitsui Professor of Political Science, Director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab (PERL)
When professionals from fields like healthcare talk to me about polling at MIT, they often assume that designing patient surveys will…
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