News 8/2/23 – HIStalk
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Amazon Clinic expands its telemedicine service to all 50 states and Washington, DC.
The company had postponed the expansion by several weeks due to lawmaker concerns about its method of collecting and sharing…
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Amazon Clinic expands its telemedicine service to all 50 states and Washington, DC.
The company had postponed the expansion by several weeks due to lawmaker concerns about its method of collecting and sharing…
David Bates, MS, PhD is co-founder and CEO of Linus Health of Boston, MA.
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I have a PhD in chemical and materials engineering. I was in…
It’s been a good four months since I last tried to use generative AI to see if I could be replaced as a blogger. I had some downtime with one of my favorite computer…
Continue ReadingSteve Cagle, MBA is CEO of Clearwater of Nashville, TN.
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I’m the CEO of Clearwater Security and Compliance. We are a national, healthcare-focused cybersecurity compliance and…
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Surescripts settles Federal Trade Commission charges from 2019 that accused the company of anti-competitive practices in the electronic prescribing and eligibility markets.
FTC claimed that Surescripts maintained a 95% market share in both…
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Informa Markets will acquire the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition, the London-based company announced in its six-month financial report.
Informa is a London-based B2B events and publishing company. Its shares are traded…
Big tech companies — including Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft — have signed on to a White House initiative to create AI safeguards. The companies have agreed to ensure safety in AI products prior…
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Amazon Web Services launches AWS HealthScribe, which allows developers to create clinical documentation tools that use speech recognition and generative AI. Software companies can use a single API to create transcripts, extract terms, and…
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Private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners sells specialty EHR/PM vendor Nextech to another PE firm, TPG, for $1.4 billion.
THL bought the company for $500 million in June 2019, after which it…
There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t see an article or hear commentary about how AI is going to somehow cause the end of the world. Earlier this month, it caused…
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