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Massachusetts regulators worry that Steward Health Care’s financial problems may force it to close hospitals, with the resulting loss of jobs and access to care.
Steward operates 33 hospitals in nine states, nine…
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Venture capital firm General Catalyst signs a letter of intent to acquire Akron-based non-profit health system Summa Health.
GC formed Health Assurance Transformation Corporation, HATCo, in October 2023 to lead a technology-driven transformation…
The Lown Institute has released its 2023 Shkreli Awards, highlighting “the worst in healthcare profiteering and dysfunction.” The selection panel includes clinicians, journalists, patient advocates, and health policy experts.
In case anyone doesn’t recognize…
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Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang tells attendees of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference that he expects drug design to move nearly completely to AI systems. He also predicts that medical devices such as…
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Mark Burgess is president of North America of Agfa HealthCare of Carlstadt, NJ.
Tell me about yourself and the company.
I’ve spent the majority of my career in electronic health records. I have…
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Apple will remove pulse oximetry technology from its Watch to avoid the possibility of having the product banned from importation into the US if Apple loses a pending patent appeal.
The US International Trade…
I’ve been practicing in the telehealth space since before the pandemic. We deal with a lot of situations that other physicians don’t want to deal with – patients calling for antibiotics, patients with…
G. Cameron “Cam” Deemer is CEO of DrFirst of Rockville, MD.
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I was a latecomer to healthcare IT. I started my career in the ministry and…
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A Google-created AI system called AMIE that was optimized for diagnostic dialog outperforms primary care doctors in synchronous text chat with patient actors. The authors warn that while this isn’t representative of clinical…
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Artisight, which offers a smart hospital platform, raises $42 million in a Series B funding round.
Co-founder and CEO Andrew Gostine, MD, MBA formed the company while working in his anesthesiology residency.
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