Moderna’s ambitions in messenger RNA technology include therapies that do their editing work inside the patient. To that end, the biotech company is starting an R&D collaboration with a division of ElevateBio that brings…
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RapidAI, a health tech company specializing in imaging analysis software, announced it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Rapid RV/LV product that aims to speed up the pulmonary embolism triage and care process.Rapid RV/LV…
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Baptist Memorial will deploy LockDeep’s advanced telehealth technology throughout its system of 22 affiliate hospitals.WHY IT MATTERS
The collaboration utilizes LookDeep’s Clinical Action Platform, built on modern SOC2 Type II audited software, to provide Baptist…
What You Should Know:– BrightInsight announced that ixlayer has joined the BrightInsight Ecosystem, a network of more than 20 of the world’s leading healthcare and technology companies driving growth and adoption of digital health solutions.– The BrightInsight Ecosystem of…
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ONC publishes “Social Determinants of Health Information Exchange Toolkit.”
Reader Comments From NY CIO: “Re: Northwell Health. Word is it will announce its move to Epic and that it will bring a large…
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Clotting disorders can be treated by infusing patients with clotting proteins they lack, or with drugs that replace the function of these proteins. Gene therapies may soon become another option. Hemophilia A and B…
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Researchers at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) creaetd a Raman-spectroscopy-based urine test that can detect metabolic compounds that are produced by pancreatic and prostate cancers, potentially allowing for rapid and convenient cancer screening. The technology consists of a paper strip onto which a urine sample can be added. The…
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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020 and everything shut down, it became imperative for healthcare provider organizations to adopt telemedicine to deliver care. But so many organizations had no telemedicine programs, and thus technology, in place.So, many provider organizations scrambled and turned to what they could. And in so…
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What You Should Know:– Primary care EHR Elation Health acquires cloud-based medical billing and payer connectivity provider Lightning MD, a platform that was created by nurses. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.The acquisition is part of Elation Health’s bid to be a one-stop shop for all primary care — something that co-founder and CEO Kyna Fong, Ph.D., has been driving despite all the odds.As part of the acquisition, Elation will continue to support practices integrated with over 20 practice management and billing solutions connected via the Elation application programming interface (API).Lightning MDFounded in 2017 by registered nurses Kelly Schoenfeld and…
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Scientists at Brown University have designed an automated liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) system that allows clinicians to rapidly and easily process patient samples to determine levels of antidepressant drugs in the body. Getting the correct dose of antidepressant drugs into the bloodstream is important to ensure efficacy and avoid side-effects. However, current assays to measure the levels of such drugs in the blood are cumbersome, require large blood samples, and involve multiple time-consuming steps, limiting their use by clinicians. This new system requires very small sample volumes, and employs a robot liquid handling system that is commonly found […]…
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