Ed Chekan, MD, F.A.C.S., VP of Medical Affairs and Professional Education at Asensus Surgical
Lately, I’ve been reading headlines about full autonomous surgery – claims that gallbladders can be removed without a human hand. It…
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What You Should Know:
– The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is deploying a massive $50 billion investment across all 50 states to overhaul the nation’s rural healthcare infrastructure starting in 2026.
– Under…
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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for mental health interactions, often mimicking therapeutic behaviour without regulatory oversight. Documented harms, including suicides, highlight the urgent need for stronger safeguards. This manuscript argues that LLMs…
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Careful selection of skin lesions that require expert evaluation is important for early skin cancer detection. Yet challenges include lack of cost-effective asymptomatic screening, geographical inequality in access to specialty dermatology, and long wait…
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What You Should Know:
– WellBeam, a healthcare technology company, announced that it has successfully raised $10M in Series A funding led by Wittington Ventures and included participation from F-Prime, Advocate Health, and Oncology Ventures.
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Little is known about the prognostic value of continuous, out-of-clinic biometric monitoring of cardiovascular function in chronic kidney disease (CKD). In this study, a mean (±SD) of 50.3 ± 9.3 h of EKG recordings from wearable BioPatch…
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Health human resource constraints in Canada have left millions of patients without timely access to primary care (PC), leading many to attend emergency departments (ED) to see a doctor. We evaluated changes in service…
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Funding Led by Forerunner Ventures Accelerates the Impact of AmplifyMD’s AI-Enabled Multispecialty Virtual Care Platform, Enabling Health Systems to Enhance Clinical Access and Operational Efficiencies Across Any Care Setting
Building on accelerating traction with health…
The Oversubscribed Round, Led by Wellington Management and General Catalyst, Will be Used to Enhance and Scale the Company’s Enterprise Health Platform, and Transform Health Benefit Management and Administration for Employers and Plans
Rebrand Signals…
Background: Questionnaire-based symptom assessment may introduce recall bias and lacks bidirectional exploration. This is particularly relevant given the unclear direction of the associations between physical activity (PA), sedentary time (ST) and symptoms in patients…
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