The popular Apple AirPods Pro 2 earbuds will soon function as hearing aids for people with self-perceived mild to moderate hearing loss. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Thursday its authorization of…
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The issue of fraud, waste and abuse in healthcare spending is a major challenge for both payers and providers with some estimates that it accounts for as much as 10 percent of overall healthcare…
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New research was published this week analyzing how AI can be used to better manage medications for senior patients with polypharmacy — meaning they use multiple medications simultaneously to treat various conditions.
It found that…
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Highmark, an insurer in Pennsylvania, will now cover AppliedVR’s RelieVRx, a device for chronic low back pain, the companies announced Monday. This makes Highmark the first commercial insurer to cover the device.
RelieVRx is an…
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More than 330 healthcare organizations signed letters this week urging the White House and Congress to extend a telehealth prescribing flexibility that was introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Failure to extend this policy would cause…
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HLTH 2024, scheduled for October 20-23 at the Venetian Expo Center in Las Vegas, will highlight new programming, a physician roundtable, generative AI, the shifting landscapes of telemedicine, retail health, women’s health, and lots…
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Some of the most challenging yet most important processes for digital health startups to navigate are those related to reimbursement and coding.
“People think, ‘Oh, I’ve got a code. I’m great. I can just go…
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The medical technology investment space is a pretty small ecosystem, according to medtech venture capitalist Maria Berkman.
“The number of venture funds that exclusively focus on medtech is relatively limited. There are probably less than…
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“The bottom line is that AI regulation is really about transparency. We don’t know everything.”
Those words were spoken by Luke Ralston — who has been a biomedical engineer and scientific reviewer at the FDA…
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Millions of Americans suffer from chronic conditions that affect the hand each year, such as the 1.5 million people with rheumatoid arthritis and up to 10 million people with carpal tunnel syndrome. This week,…
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