News 2/14/25 – HIStalk
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, JD, LLM is sworn in as HHS secretary.
He will manage a $2 trillion budget and will oversee CMS, CDC, FDA, NIH, the Public Health Service, HHS OIG, AHRQ,…
Top News
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, JD, LLM is sworn in as HHS secretary.
He will manage a $2 trillion budget and will oversee CMS, CDC, FDA, NIH, the Public Health Service, HHS OIG, AHRQ,…
Digital business and services company Conduent has been selected by the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) to replace its legacy public health surveillance system with Conduent’s Maven disease surveillance and outbreak management system.The…
Continue ReadingAlexander Sicular, Chief Technology Officer at Drive Health
What You Should Know:
– Drive Health, a digital health startup revolutionizing healthcare access and delivery, today announced the appointment of Alexander Sicular as its Chief Technology Officer…
Continue ReadingPublic Health Wales (PHW) has appointed collaborative service design consultancy Healthia to lead a project to boost the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes.
The ‘Digital diabetes discovery’ project will develop an evidence-based framework…
Made possible through pilot funding and informed by user experience research, Mayo Clinic’s Clinical Trials Beyond Walls initiative leverages telehealth, remote assessments and other hospital-at-home innovations to bring all or some trial aspects into…
Continue ReadingJernigan was deputy director for public health science and surveillance at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the time, and he discussed lessons from the CDC’s 2019 data modernization initiative, including ongoing cloud…
Continue ReadingThe only thing being discussed in the virtual physician lounge today was the Senate confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Colleagues whose specialties are directly related to public health are understandably concerned, and…
Continue ReadingWhat You Should Know:
– Bicycle Health, the nation’s largest provider of virtual opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment, today announced a $16.5 million funding round led by Questa Capital, with participation from all existing and…
Continue ReadingBackground: HIV continues to be a public health concern for Mexico and Latin America due to an increase in new cases, instead of a decrease, such as is observed globally. Treatment adherence is a…
Continue ReadingCurrent State of Healthcare AI Implementation
While artificial intelligence has become increasingly prevalent in U.S. healthcare systems, with approximately two-thirds of hospitals utilizing AI-assisted predictive models, a striking disparity exists in their evaluation practices. According…