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PE firm Advent International acquires PatientPoint, which sells point-of-care advertising to pharma companies and online marketing services to providers.
Advent’s portfolio includes Iodine Software and Definitive Healthcare.
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Like many practicing physicians, I use a variety of tools to research clinical questions. This might be for patients I’m seeing or for board certification questions (which thankfully allow the use of references now)….
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The big story of the week was the Epic User Group meeting, which sported a sci-fi theme this year. The four-day event started with the traditional welcome picnic on Sunday, with Advisory Councils…
As a clinician, I often have difficult conversations with parents about how to reduce the amount of time that their children spend using screen-based devices every day. Many of the parents I encounter are…
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Perplexity made an unsolicited offer to buy the Chrome browser from Google for $34.5 billion. Several people I spoke with agree with the Axios statement that it’s a great marketing play, but unlikely…
I was intrigued by Mr. H’s mention last week of the Mass General Brigham FaceAge AI tool that can estimate age from facial photos. Researchers found that patients with cancer appeared older than…
One of the hot topics around the virtual physician lounge this week was the opening of the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Bentonville, Arkansas. The school is named after its founder, who…
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I recently had the opportunity to spend some time with a computer engineering student who was looking to learn about healthcare information technology. Specifically, he was curious about the role that clinicians play in…
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There was some good discussion around the virtual physician lounge this week as one of my colleagues shared a recent article in Nature Scientific Reports about using AI to diagnose autism spectrum disorder and…
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Several people have asked for my opinion about Bee, which Amazon is acquiring. The company makes the Pioneer, a wearable that records and transcribes your day. It captures not only what you say, but…
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