The digitization of healthcare data at the point of care has accelerated since the HITECH Act was passed in 2009. Developments since the HITECH Act and, more recently, the Cures Act passed in 2016…
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Amidst a worker shortage, the healthcare industry has been exploring generative AI and its potential to eliminate mundane, burdensome tasks. On Wednesday, two established organizations — Google Cloud and Mayo Clinic — announced a partnership…
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Historically, the majority of healthcare services and products have been available to the general public offline, but as the world has become increasingly digital, so has our approach to healthcare. In the ‘digital age’…
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To be successful in value-based care arrangements, providers must invest heavily in technology and partnerships. However, most federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) — safety-net providers approved by the government to provide low-cost care —…
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Both patients and clinicians would agree that the healthcare system has an abundance of inefficiencies and frustrations. Alyssa Jaffee, partner at 7wireVentures, said it well last month at MedCity News’ INVEST conference — “it’s…
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Pilotitis, a term commonly used in digital health to describe the tendency to launch numerous small-scale pilot projects without committing to or scaling pilots to full scale implementations. As someone who has worked in…
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A group of healthcare researchers and health system leaders recently proposed a new framework to evaluate evidence for digital health products. The set of guidelines — titled Evidence in Digital health for EFfectiveness of…
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A motor vehicle accident left Dalton Shaull, co-founder and CEO of OmniLife Health, with a paralyzed arm, which led to a nerve transplant in 2014 that saw him going from “complete paralysis to full…
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Meghan Doyle (left), CEO of Partum Health, accepts the MedCity INVEST Pitch Perfect award from Arundhati Parmar (right), editor-in-chief of MedCity News, May 24.
Meghan Doyle, co-founder and CEO of Partum Health, was working at…
The healthcare sector has a reputation of being notoriously slow to adopt new technologies. However, the field doesn’t seem to be immune to the lure of artificial intelligence — including large language models (LLMs),…
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