On Monday, Menlo Park, California-based healthcare investment firm Patient Square Capital launched a new portfolio company. The company, called Elevage Medical Technologies, will support growth-stage medical device companies by providing capital, as well as…
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The healthcare sector has been notoriously slow to adopt new technologies in the past, but it certainly hasn’t been ignoring ChatGPT.
Healthcare leaders are already beginning to explore potential use cases for ChatGPT, such as…
Race and Hispanic ethnicity factor into emergency department (ED) visits for people with mental health disorders, concludes a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Among the findings: Black adults…
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The unprecedented expansion of telehealth and mental health care during the pandemic was a monumental shift for behavioral health care in more ways than one.
The flexibilities for behavioral health visits that resulted from the…
If there’s one thing about Amazon, it’s that the company isn’t afraid to try something new and toss it out if the project doesn’t go as planned.
This week, Amazon announced that it is…
At the MedCity INVEST conference, scheduled for May 22-24 at the Ritz Carlton in Chicago, healthcare and life science startups have the opportunity to network and engage in salon-style discussions with investors. These Ask…
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There are some corners of the digital health market that investors feel are a bit too crowded. In recent conference panel discussions and interviews, venture capitalists said it’s getting hard to differentiate startups among…
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Hopper Health, a virtual primary care company for neurodivergent adults, is partnering with health equity platform Violet to help its providers deliver more culturally competent and inclusive care, the companies told MedCity in an…
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In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in America to earn a medical degree, inspired by a dying friend who said her health ordeal would have been better if she’d had a female…
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Two health systems have come together to launch a nurse residency program designed to increase retention.
On Tuesday, Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health announced that it has co-developed the program with Dignity Health Global Education (DHGE) —…
