The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is launching new guidelines on value-based procurement for MedTech.
Around £10bn per year is spent on MedTech, but the NHS has previously opted to buy technology based…
Skin tone assessments are critical for fairness evaluation in healthcare algorithms (e.g., pulse oximetry) but lack validation. Using prospectively collected facial images from 90 hospitalized adults at the San Francisco VA, three independent annotators…
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Previn Tiwari, EVP & Business Head, FPT
It’s easy to assume that patients take the medications physicians prescribe. But the reality is that medication non-adherence represents one of healthcare’s most persistent and costly challenges. The…
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What You Should Know:
– Tennr, a company automating the labor-intensive workflows of referral-based care, has released its first Healthcare Provider Benchmark Report. The study uncovers a significant financial challenge: independent healthcare providers lose over…
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What You Should Know:
– Seven Starling, a women’s mental health company focused on providing specialized care during the critical stages of fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood , has released its first patient outcomes…
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Medicare’s telehealth flexibilities lapse due to the federal government’s shutdown, with these changes:
Geographic restrictions are restored.
Medicare patients won’t be able to receive services in their homes.
An initial In-person visit will…
Generative AI models, including large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs), are increasingly used to interpret medical images and answer clinical questions. However, their responses often include inaccuracies; therefore, safety measures like medical…
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Aimee Cardwell, CISO in Residence at Transcend
Over the past few years, I’ve watched as the number of ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations across America has continued to trend upwards – undermining patient care and exposing millions of medical…
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What You Should Know:
– Plexāā, a medtech company focused on improving surgical outcomes, has announced the U.S. launch of its BLOOM43 platform on the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
– The platform combines…
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What You Should Know:
– Omada Health, a virtual between-visit healthcare provider, has launched Meal Map, a new nutrient-categorization tool.
– The tool combines AI-powered instant feedback with support from human care teams to help members…
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