The healthcare industry is continuing to evolve with technological innovations that can provide clinicians with a more holistic view of their patient’s health and which we ultimately expect to improve patient outcomes. Both telehealth…
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Life-sciences companies faced fewer class-action securities lawsuits last year, continuing a trend of declining litigation over the last few years, according to a report published in February by the law firm Dechert LLP.Investors filed…
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Eko SENSORA Cardiac Disease Detection Platform on tablet featuring 3M Littmann CORE Digital Stethoscope
“We’ve called it Shazam for heartbeats. You know Shazam, the music identification app that helps you figure out what song is…
Over the past few years, it’s become a business truism that “every company is a data company.” We’ve seen the use of data analytics help business and IT leaders to arrive at new insights…
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Safety is paramount in medical care, rooted in the most basic tenet of medicine: First, do no harm. But, although acute medical care presents myriad risks to patient safety, there is no category for…
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Cough, fever, and breathing difficulty could signal a Covid-19 infection. It could also be the flu. A Lucira Health diagnostic is now the first one authorized by the FDA to identify the culprit virus…
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While most people don’t choose a healthcare career to drive profits, many soon realize that it’s impossible to support high-quality care without having a clear understanding of the financial realities of the business. This…
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McKinsey estimates that digital health solutions could cut global healthcare costs by $3 trillion per year by 2030. But we’ll only hit that number if people actually use the digital health solutions we build…
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With the Inflation Reduction Act now on the books, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will begin negotiating drug prices with the pharmaceutical industry. That, combined with other headwinds such as increased competition from me-too drugs, and ever-present pricing pressure from payers, means that pharma players now more than ever need a new and powerful tool to differentiate their products. We believe the next decade of transformation is digital.
Learning from the auto industry Almost every industry has had to confront a fundamental existential question: What is our product? Consider the automotive industry, which once was largely about hardware…
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For the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare professionals focused on understanding the Covid-19 virus, how best to guard against it, and developing tests to detect it. They also tracked, aggregated, and analyzed health data to assess and monitor the public health threat on a regional, state and country-wide level. In the longer term, vaccine development and distribution were used to slow the spread to avoid a collapse of the health system and to reduce the potency of the virus for the majority of people.
More recently, attention has shifted to the long perceived threat of viruses coming together with…
