What You Should Know:
– Alchemy, a healthcare company focused on improving access to medications for underserved populations secures $31M in seed funding.
– The investment was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health, with…
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What You Should Know:
– Accenture Federal Services has been awarded a substantial $190 million contract from the U.S. Department of State.
– The company will provide critical data and systems engineering support to the President’s…
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Dr. Summerpal Kahlon, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Edifecs
Forty years ago, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, HIV researchers and physicians discovered that simply treating the symptoms of the disease was not enough to…
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Background: Mobile health (mHealth) technologies are increasingly used in contact tracing and case finding, enhancing and replacing traditional methods for managing infectious diseases such as Ebola, tuberculosis, COVID-19, and HIV. However, the variations in…
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A digital HIV PrEP service has launched in East Sussex, giving users access to necessary tests and preventative medication for HIV without having to visit a clinic.
The free service, which went live on 6…
What You Should Know: – MISTR, a telemedicine provider for sexual health, is partnering with select Walmart locations in Georgia to offer free at-home STI test kits. This initiative aims to increase access to…
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Retail giant Walmart and MISTR, a telemedicine provider offering free online STI testing, PrEP, DoxyPEP and long-term HIV care, have launched a pilot program offering free at-home HIV testing kits to customers from seven…
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Ransomware hackers who breached the Vital Statistics system of Florida’s health department publish 100 gigabytes of HIV results, immunization records, and clinical notes to the dark web after the state declines to pay…
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Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust’s sexual health service has implemented an electronic patient record (EPR) from specialist sexual health and HIV software provider, Inform Health.The EPR went live in April 2024, following a…
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Background: The success or failure of a digital health technology depends upon how it is received by the user. Objective: We conducted a detailed evaluation of user experience (UX) amongst persons who utilized an…
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