Background: Smoking cessation has become a global priority, with peer support interventions shown to improve abstinence rates. However, no studies have examined the effectiveness of a group-based digital peer-supported app combined with nicotine gum…
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What You Should Know:
– The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched a new oversight initiative to ensure that enrollees in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are U.S. citizens,…
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Next-generation sequencing-based tests have advanced the field of medical diagnostics, but their novelty and cost can lead to uncertainty in clinical deployment. The Heme-STAMP is one such assay that tracks mutations in genes implicated…
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Health care wastes money right and left on purchases, and needs efficiency more than ever, according to Dave Pennino, Founder and CEO at LogicSource. His company optimizes client spending on the 20-25% of revenue…
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Thomas Kluz, Managing Director at Niterra Ventures
The most consequential shift in modern medicine isn’t happening inside hospitals or biotech labs. It’s happening inside medical simulation labs / training centers.
Drug development has long been marked…
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Background: People with aphasia (PwA) present with language and communication deficits, most notably in lexical retrieval (naming). Although positive outcomes in naming have been observed following speech-language treatment, many individuals with aphasia continue to…
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Background: Assessing fall risk, especially in individuals with neurological disorders, is essential to prevent hospitalization, hypomobility, and reduced functional independence. Wearable sensors are increasingly used in neurorehabilitation, as they enable unsupervised fall risk assessment…
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As a clinician, I often have difficult conversations with parents about how to reduce the amount of time that their children spend using screen-based devices every day. Many of the parents I encounter are…
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What You Should Know:
– Ambience Healthcare, Caregility, Five9, Imprivata and NESA announced they have recently been added to or are in the process of being integrated into Epic’s Toolbox, signaling a new wave of…
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Dr Anas Nader, cofounder and chief executive of Patchwork Health (Credit: Patchwork Health)
Exclusive: Digital health firm Patchwork Health has welcomed 17 new partnerships since its acquisition of L2P last year.
The e-rostering software firm…
