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FDA creates a nine-member Digital Health Advisory Committee that will advise it on topics such as AI, augmented and virtual reality, digital therapeutics, wearables, and remote patient monitoring technology.
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Rural Healthcare Organizations Need Security Support
Healthcare access is already a challenge for rural communities across the country. The threat of a cyberattack is yet another immense weight for these independent health systems to juggle.
Many…
In announcing a large expansion of its virtual primary care program on Tuesday, Walmart strongly endorsed its health tech partner charged with providing that care to workers and their families enrolled in its health…
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What You Should Know: Cleveland Clinic announced a partnership with TikTok to help users find educational and accurate mental health content. As part of the paternship, TikTok users in the United States will begin to…
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Digital care management platform Sidekick Health announced it acquired Hamburg-based aidhere, a prescription digital therapeutic for people with obesity. Sidekick develops personalized digital therapeutics and programs for chronic and lifestyle disease management, ranging from diabetes…
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Insurer Cigna’s health services subsidiary Evernorth announced it acquired asynchronous platform Bright.md, which it will use to enhance the virtual care offerings of its portfolio company MDLIVE. Portland-based Bright.md offers an automated patient intake and…
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What You Should Know:
– More than one-third of hospital and health system transactions announced in Q3 2023 involved a party that cited financial distress as a transaction driver, according to Kaufman Hall’s latest mergers…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced the creation of a new Digital Health Advisory Committee, which will gather “experts throughout the field who can help ensure our regulation of these exciting…
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Dichotomy of Healthcare
Dr. Zeev Neuwirth opened the 2023 American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA23) conference and spoke about the dichotomy of healthcare. He shared with the audience that is simultaneously frustrated at and excited…
Musculoskeletal care is a critical service line in healthcare. More than 50% of the adult population in the U.S. has some form of MSK condition, and the impact on people’s lives is significant.THE PROBLEM
Pain…
