On Thursday, AWS announced plans to funnel an additional $20 million into its health equity initiative, bringing the company’s total investment in the program to $60 million.
AWS launched the program in 2021, originally committing…
Beneath the Californian sunshine (and a few showers) at JP Morgan, a revolution simmers. Not a political one, but a healthcare revolution propelled by necessity and fueled by innovation. Imagine a future where groundbreaking…
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American healthcare is highly inefficient. Across a variety of long-term health and treatment outcomes and patient safety metrics, the U.S. has lower performance compared with countries of similar economic status, despite spending more money…
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One in six American youth experience a mental health disorder each year. In California, about a third of adolescents experienced serious psychological distress between 2019 and 2021. In that same time frame, there was…
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Investment trends panel discussion, INVEST 2022. From L-R: Christina Jenkins, venture partner, Phoenix Venture Partners; Michael Yang, managing partner, Omers Ventures; Alyssa Jaffee, partner, 7wireVentures; Daniel Lubienietzky, manager of life sciences, TMX Group.
The MedCity…
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that nearly one in every 10 U.S. children has been diagnosed with autism, an intellectual disability or another developmental delay. Jen Wirt, the mother…
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Cherish Serenity sits in the home and is able to detect falls across multiple rooms.
In 2020, when Cherish Health Founder and CEO Sumit Nagpal set out to create Cherish Serenity, a health and safety…
There were roughly 90 first-year medical students that had gathered in the lab. The instructor was about to take them through their first dissection in a human anatomy course. For most students, this was…
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The healthcare industry experiences more data breaches than any other industry. A report from 2021 found that 79% of data breaches affect the healthcare industry alone.
Healthcare records are worth as much as 10X more…
Technology has changed a lot since I was a practicing pharmacist. While clinicians have always focused on using technology to improve patient safety, everything else about technology is constantly evolving.
For example, clinicians have relied…
