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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, JD, LLM is sworn in as HHS secretary.
He will manage a $2 trillion budget and will oversee CMS, CDC, FDA, NIH, the Public Health Service, HHS OIG, AHRQ,…
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, JD, LLM is sworn in as HHS secretary.
He will manage a $2 trillion budget and will oversee CMS, CDC, FDA, NIH, the Public Health Service, HHS OIG, AHRQ,…
Proposed legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives will allow AI and machine learning technology to prescribe drugs approved by the FDA autonomously. The bill, H.R.238, introduced on Jan. 7, would require amending the…
Continue ReadingThe obesity rate has stopped increasing in the U.S., due in part to the growing use of GLP-1s — with one in eight Americans having taken one last year. While it’s certainly good news…
Continue ReadingSt. Joseph’s Health Finds Space to Grow with Modernized StorageIn northern New Jersey, St. Joseph’s Health forecasted its impending needs and replaced its aging storage infrastructure five years ago with a Pure Storage solution…
Continue ReadingCalifornia legislators are getting on the AI regulation train. A bill was introduced earlier this week that would prevent AI systems from calling themselves health professionals. Mia Bonta represents California’s 18th Assembly District, which…
Continue ReadingCandid Health, a revenue cycle management platform for healthcare providers, announced it raised $52.5 million in Series C funding.The round was led by Oak HC/FT with participation from existing investors.
The latest funding round brings…
Imagine being handed the keys to all information technology at a prominent health system in the United States, and all that entails: everything from optimizing electronic health record systems to overseeing the very latest…
Continue ReadingApple announced it is collaborating with Brigham and Women’s Hospital to launch the Apple Health Study, which will use various data from Apple devices to help predict, detect and manage physical and mental health…
Continue ReadingWhat You Should Know:
– Prenuvo, a provider of proactive whole-body MRI screening raises $120M in Series B funding round co-led by Forerunner Ventures, Left Lane Capital, and existing investor Felicis.
– The company has already…
Continue ReadingVirtual healthcare provider HealthTap is collaborating with correctional healthcare company NaphCare to provide virtual primary care and urgent care to individuals in halfway houses and transition centers. Through the collaboration, incarcerated people from federal prisons…
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