By Hannah Nelson March 30, 2023 – Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Chairman Jon Tester (D-MT), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) are leading a legislative push for an…
Continue Reading
By Jill McKeon March 30, 2023 – Effective immediately, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will require medical device manufacturers to provide cybersecurity information in their premarket device submissions. Additionally, beginning October 1, the…
Continue Reading
What You Should Know:Uber Health, Uber’s healthcare arm, today announced same-day prescription delivery on its HIPAA-supported, centralized platform.For the first time, those using Uber Health—including healthcare providers and health plans—will be able to manage prescription…
Continue Reading
New York-based health technology company Florence, which focuses on clinical capacity management, launched with $20 million seed funding. GV (Google Ventures), Thrive Capital and Salesforce Ventures led the round, with participation from Atento Capital, BoxGroup…
Continue Reading
Receiving telehealth services for opioid use disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with reduced odds for fatal overdose among Medicare beneficiaries, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry. Researchers from the Centers for…
Continue Reading
Nurses are the backbone of the medical industry. Without their presence, patient care would suffer greatly, but being that we live in an ever evolving, technological world, the way that nurses are equipped to…
Continue Reading
Eric Bacon, President at AMD Global Telemedicine, IncThe adoption of virtual health has increased dramatically since March 2020, with 150 million telehealth claims in less than two years. Like other revolutionary innovations throughout history,…
Continue Reading
MainStreet Family Care serves patients in primarily rural areas throughout Alabama, Georgia, Florida and North Carolina. For many of these patients, MainStreet is their only local option for care.THE PROBLEM
In fact, for many patients,…
Smart rings provide unique opportunities for continuous physiological measurement. They are easy to wear, provide little burden in comparison to other smart wearables, are suitable for nocturnal settings, and can be sized to provide…
Continue Reading
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems can now reliably assess surgeon skills through videos of intraoperative surgical activity. With such systems informing future high-stakes decisions such as whether to credential surgeons and grant them the privilege…
Continue Reading
