Amazon Clinic, with subscription-based telehealth services in 33 states, appears to be holding off on a promotional campaign announcing its nationwide expansion that was reportedly planned to launch today because of a letter asking…
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Addiction-focused behavioral health provider Praesum Healthcare announced a partnership with ObservSMART to utilize its wearable device and staff tablet to perform patient checks on noncompliant patient populations. ObservSMART offers patented, tamper-resistant wearables that help providers…
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By Anuja Vaidya
June 15, 2023 – States with telehealth payment parity laws had a 23 percent higher likelihood of telehealth use among residents compared to states that did not implement these laws, according to a…
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Multiple lawsuits accuse Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and its parent company Point32Health of “willful failure” to uphold their responsibilities to protect personally identifiable information and protected health information.WHY IT MATTERS
Attorneys for Valeria Salerno Gonzales,…
Virtual reality’s use in mental health provides an innovative approach that proves to be transformational. When used in a thoughtful and conscious way, it can provide a much-needed engaging and affordable therapeutic experience that…
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The iLet Bionic Pancreas for use by type 1 diabetes patients has been cleared by the FDA and is now available commercially. The device is offered by Beta Bionics, a medtech company based in…
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Point32Health, the parent organization of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and other insurance plans, announced that data was copied and taken from the healthcare payer’s systems during a cyber breach that occurred between March 28 and April…
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A dataset containing contributions from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients, dating back to 2005, will be added to the Pooled Resource Open-Access ALS Clinical Trials, or PRO-ACT database at Massachusetts General Hospital.The database, part of…
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By Sara Heath
May 18, 2023 – More evidence is emerging that ChatGPT, a conversational generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, can effectively answer patient questions, this time out of Massachusetts General Hospital.
This data gives credence to…
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PatientsLikeMe (PLM), announced a partnership with the Neurological Clinical Research Institute (NCRI) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) to share de-identified patient data that can improve research outcomes for ALS.The company’s outcomes-rich data is now…
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