The FDA recalled 60 medical devices last year, and the running total for this year is 56. The good news is that there’s a startup working to make future totals lower.
The startup, named Ketryx,…
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Virginia has partnered with Aledade, a network of independent primary care practices, to improve access to value-based primary care for Medicaid members, the companies announced last week.
Bethesda,…
“I don’t think we talk enough about the tension between innovation and who pays for the innovation — and who can access it.”
Dr. Vin Gupta, a pulmonologist and chief medical officer at Amazon Pharmacy…
The combination of medicine and information technology have at times created dissonance and dynamic tension. Medicine has historically relied on a slow, deliberate build-up to amass a body of evidence. Whereas development of information…
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Americans can’t afford their medications. About 25% leave prescriptions unfilled, split pills, or skip doses. Seniors face challenges covering non-Medicare services, including prescriptions. Even those with commercial health insurance are not immune. One-third of…
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AI development powerhouse Nvidia is launching a new set of cloud-based application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to speed up the creation and deployment of specialized AI models in the medical imaging field. The company…
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When I was practicing as a community pharmacist, I saw patients walk away from the counter without their prescription because they couldn’t pay for a drug they needed. I saw patients expecting that their…
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Healthcare organizations are one of the biggest targets of cyber attacks. A survey we conducted found that more than half of healthcare IT leaders report that their organization has faced a cybersecurity incident in…
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Alpha Sophia Founder and CEO Paul-Lukas Hoffschmidt explains how the company’s software diverges from competitors in healthcare commercial intelligence, with a focus on smaller innovators.
Why did you start this company?
There are approximately 15,000…
GE HealthCare launched a new AI suite this week at RSNA 2023, the annual radiology and medical imaging conference in Chicago. The new product, called the MyBreastAI suite, is designed to simplify radiologists’ workflows…
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