The American Heart Association (AHA) has joined 30 other organizations in supporting the Chronic Care Management Improvement Act. The legislation aims to eliminate the 20% cost-sharing requirement for Chronic Care Management (CCM) services under…
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Canadian practice management platform Practice Better has raised $27m in a growth investment round led by Five Elms Capital, after a $1m investment earlier this year. Practice Better offers a variety of tools to…
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Columbia University has opened the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Center for Precision Psychiatry & Mental Health to utilize precision medicine in the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental illnesses. Funded by a $75m grant…
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Stanford Medicine researchers developed an AI algorithm to analyze Reddit posts regarding statins to understand patient perceptions. Of the 10,000 posts analyzed, 30% expressed negative views on statins, with many patients mistrusting the correlation…
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Rural hospitals face significant cybersecurity challenges due to limited resources, making them easy targets for cybercriminals. Money and staffing are the primary challenges, and a lack of funding for cybersecurity investments puts them at…
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a statement urging healthcare providers and laboratory personnel to take necessary actions to mitigate cybersecurity risks in Illumina’s sequencing instruments. The FDA’s alert comes after…
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Healthcare professionals need to be aware of the heightened hazards brought on by the increased usage of artificial intelligence (AI) in the industry. The managing director of Berkeley Research Group, Thomas F. O’Neil III,…
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Researchers from Caltech and USC have developed the Surgical AI System (SAIS), an AI system that evaluates surgical performance. SAIS uses videos of surgical procedures to assess surgeon performance by evaluating individual, discrete motions….
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Ultromics, a UK-based AI company, has received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its EchoGo Amyloidosis platform, which analyses echocardiograms for signs of cardiac amyloidosis. The tool was developed with support from Janssen Biotech and…
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The CDC has reported that the monovalent mRNA vaccine is 76% effective at preventing COVID-19-related invasive mechanical ventilation and death up to 6 months after the last dose, and 56% effective for at least…
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