The American Cancer Society is betting on generative AI’s potential to accelerate cancer research, having struck a multi-year collaboration with Layer Health this month.
Boston-based Layer, founded in 2023, is a healthcare AI company that…
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Congress passed a continuing resolution last week to fund the federal government through September 30 and avoid a government shutdown. The legislation extended some key healthcare provisions, letting them live on for another six…
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Up to 8% of cancer patients refuse chemotherapy because they don’t want to lose their hair. Of course, hair loss can cause immense damage to a person’s self-esteem — but it can also strip…
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Editor’s note: This story is based on discussions at Abarca Forward, a conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, hosted by Abarca Health, a pharmacy benefit manager. MedCity News was invited to attend the event….
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Data drives modern healthcare. Wearables can continuously monitor patients living at home while point-of-care medical technologies stream data into databases. Meanwhile, connected systems create holistic, 360-degree views of healthcare operations, giving administrators data-driven insights…
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The conversation around healthcare AI is maturing, according to one hospital executive.
During an interview last month, Zafar Chaudry, chief digital officer and chief AI and information officer at Seattle Children’s, said that there has…
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Editor’s note: This story is based on discussions at Abarca Forward, a conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, hosted by Abarca Health, a pharmacy benefit manager. MedCity News was invited to attend the event….
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Three incidents of gun violence at hospitals have made headlines in the past two weeks.
On February 24, a shooting at UPMC Memorial Hospital in York, Pennsylvania left two people dead and five people wounded….
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A quarter of Medicare spending occurs during the final year of a patient’s life. Billions of those dollars go toward care that is misaligned or unwanted, which is often due to a lack of…
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End stage kidney disease is a life-changing diagnosis, and among the many disruptions it brings is dialysis. The blood-cleansing process is complex, expensive, and time-consuming. It usually requires long rides to a clinic on…
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