Iris Telehealth, a behavioral health company, has acquired telepsychiatry provider innovaTel, the companies announced on Tuesday.
Austin, Texas-based Iris Telehealth partners with hospitals, health systems and community organizations (like community health centers and federally qualified…
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In resource-constrained countries like India, mammography-based breast screening is challenging to implement. This state-wide study, funded by the Government of Punjab, evaluated the use of Thermalytix, a low-cost, radiation-free AI tool, for breast cancer…
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Senate Approves Critical Healthcare Spending Bill 2024
Congressional Approval Process
The Senate achieved a decisive victory with an 85-11 vote approval of the spending bill in the early morning of December 21, following the House’s earlier…
East Kent Health and Care Partnership (EKHCP) is extending its remote monitoring pilot for patients living with frailty and complex needs, to patients living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
EKHCP began the pilot in May…
More than 9,000 automatic letters from hospitals to GPs in Kent were delayed by three weeks due to an error which occurred during an IT upgrade at Kent Community Health Foundation Trust.
The delayed letters,…
Ohio-based Summa Health and General Catalyst’s Health Assurance Transformation HATCo, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Summa for $485 million. Summa Health is a nonprofit healthcare system with over 30 locations throughout the Akron…
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What You Should Know:
– Health Assurance Transformation LLC (HATCo), a General Catalyst company has reached an agreement to acquire Summa Health, an Ohio-based health system for $485M.
– The $485M acquisition combined with Summa Health’s…
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In a suit filed against CVS, Walgreens, GE Healthcare and many other medical technology companies and sellers of pulse oximeters – devices that use light to measure oxygen saturation in the blood – Medtronic…
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Outdated systems were holding back progress at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust. The existing infrastructure, based around data centres, was inflexible, hard to scale and expensive. The network was averaging a P1…
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A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst showed that Waymark’s community-based interventions lowered hospital and emergency department visits and improved care quality.
San Francisco-based Waymark works with health plans, primary…
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