Stroke is the second leading cause of death globally. About 137,000 people in the U.S. die each year because of stroke — this has created a high demand for technology that facilitates swift and…
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GoodRx’s Medicine Cabinet solution reminds users to take their medications and refill their prescriptions.
Prescription discount company GoodRx unveiled a new solution Thursday called Medicine Cabinet, which will help consumers manage their medications.
Santa Monica, California-based…
Healthcare insurer Blue Shield of California announced a multi-year cloud development plan with tech giant Microsoft to offer its members an integrated data hub, dubbed the Experience Cube, that runs on Microsoft’s Azure cloud…
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Octave Bioscience, a company focused on delivering precision medicine for neurodegenerative diseases like multiple sclerosis, announced it closed a $30 million extension to its Series B round.Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ venture capital arm, Hikma Ventures, participated…
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Hippocratic AI, a generative AI company developing safety-focused large language models for healthcare, added $15 million in funding to its seed round, bringing its total raise to $65 million since its launch in May.The…
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By Mark Melchionna
July 21, 2023 – Using data from the UCLA ATLAS Precision Health Biobank, UCLA Health researchers found differences in diagnoses, hospital use, and genetic disease across various populations, which provided them with a…
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Nevro, a medtech company based in California, has developed the HFX iQ spinal cord stimulation system, which is intended to treat chronic pain. While spinal cord stimulators can be very useful in controlling certain…
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By Jill McKeon
July 06, 2023 – The latest string of reported healthcare data breaches impacted small and mid-sized healthcare organizations. Two of the three breaches mentioned below occurred in 2022.
Community Research Foundation Notifies HHS of…
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By Sarai Rodriguez
June 28, 2023 – Good Samaritan Hospital settled a class-action lawsuit that alleged its inadequate cybersecurity measures were responsible for a 2020 data breach.
San Jose, California-based Good Samaritan Hospital has reached an undisclosed…
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By Mark Melchionna
June 27, 2023 – A new California Institute of Technology (Caltech) study describes a novel wearable skin sensor that can detect a liver-secreted protein known as the C-reactive protein (CRP), which is often…
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