News 12/8/23 – HIStalk
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Providence will sell its Acclara revenue cycle management company to R1 RCM for $675 million in cash, warrants to purchase $135 million worth of R1 shares, and a 10-year contract to receive revenue…
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EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 12/7/23 – HIStalk
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Celero Systems, and West Virginia University have created a new ingestible device that can monitor vital signs such as respiratory rate and heart rate….
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Healthcare AI News 12/6/23 – HIStalk
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Google announces Gemini, an “everything machine” competitor to ChatGPT that offers little new functionality to wow users, but puts AI’s key features into a single package. The company will license Gemini to…
Five Takeaways from The Sequoia Project’s Annual Meeting – HIStalk
Five Takeaways from The Sequoia Project’s Annual MeetingBy John Blair, MD
John Blair, MD is CEO of MedAllies of Fishkill, NY.
I recently attended the annual meeting in San Diego of The Sequoia…
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News 12/6/23 – HIStalk
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CVS Health will use the name CVS Healthspire for its health services business that include Oak Street Health, Signify Health, MinuteClinic, Caremark, and its recently created biosimilar company Cordavis.
The company is following…
Curbside Consult with Dr. Jayne 12/4/23 – HIStalk
I was invited to yet another retirement party this week. It was again for a primary care physician who is leaving medicine at an age that is decidedly less than the oft-discussed 65.
Burnout…
Monday Morning Update 12/4/23 – HIStalk
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Intermountain Health spinoff Culmination Bio, which offers drug companies a clinical study recruitment platform that contains 40 years’ worth of de-identified EHR and biospecimen data, raises a $10 million investment from two drug…
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News 12/1/23 – HIStalk
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Health insurers Cigna and Humana are negotiating a merger that they hope to finalize by in the next four weeks, according to insider reports.
The companies are sure to face anti-trust challenges as they…
EPtalk by Dr. Jayne 11/30/23 – HIStalk
We’ve made it past some of the early fall holidays, and those of us on the front lines are waiting to see if they will cause a spike in respiratory illnesses.
Heading into Thanksgiving,…
Healthcare AI News 11/29/23 – HIStalk
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Amazon announces Amazon Q, a generative AI assistant for businesses that provides personalized company content to employees.
NHS England will use AI to identify patients who are at risk for an ED visit or hospital…