The health service needs to think carefully about letting private data firms with little accountability to UK citizens gain access to their health data, the head of legal advocacy organisation Cori Crider has argued…
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NHS England’s Federated Data Platform (FDP) procurement risks setting back data sharing in the NHS by fanning privacy fears over approach and potential choice of supplier, if the £480m contract were to be awarded…
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OpenLoop, which provides staffing and support to digital health companies launching virtual care services, garnered $15 million in Series A funding and announced a nationwide payer network and revenue cycle management service. Nava Ventures led…
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Jonathan Perlin, CEO of the Joint Commisssion
As I write this article, I am recovering from a power outage that lasted nearly two days due to trees downed by record winds created by the atmospheric…
Georgia policymakers, county officials and the NAACP are asking the federal government to investigate Wellstar Health System’s closure of two Atlanta-area hospitals in predominantly Black neighborhoods.
The latest request came from the Fulton County Commission…
What You Should Know:– Accenture published Fast-Forwarding Healthcare through Data Collaboratives Report to discover how best health ecosystem players access data to fast-forward healthcare.– Data generated by technical and scientific advances, like connected health…
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About 37% of Americans live in areas where there is a shortage of mental health providers. By 2025, the U.S. will be short about 31,000 full-time equivalent mental health practitioners, said Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, assistant…
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AbbVie, Gilead Sciences, Pfizer, and Roche are among the companies that must cut a check to the U.S. government. Those companies have Medicare-covered medicines whose prices rose faster than inflation and according to a…
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What You Should Know:– OpenLoop, a leader in white-label telehealth support services powering virtual and hybrid care across the country, today announced it has raised a $15M Series A funding.– The round was led…
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By Sarai Rodriguez March 15, 2023 – A study out of the University of Michigan found that the absence of a clear policy for newborn drug screening, physician bias, and institutional racism…
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