My friend Rosemarie Day joins me to talk about the Healthcare Leaders for Democracy session coming up on September 4 (Thursday) at 8pm ET 5pm PT. It’s a one hour session with Atul Gawande as the keynote speaker, joined by Don Berwick and John McDonough. It’ll be a fascinating discussion and it’s a fundraiser for…
Cuando tuvo un antojo inusual de hotdogs, Matte’a Brooks sospechó que su cuerpo le quería decir algo, así que decidió hacerse una prueba de embarazo. Se hizo dos, para estar segura. Ambas dieron positivo. “Definitivamente me asusté”, dijo Brooks, de 23 años, quien no tenía seguro de salud. “Pensé: OK… estoy embarazada, ¿y ahora qué…
When a woman collapsed on an escalator at the Buffalo, New York, airport last June, Phil Clough knew what to do. He and another bystander put her flat on her back and checked her pulse (faint) and her breathing (shallow and erratic). Then she stopped breathing altogether. Realizing that she might be having a cardiac…
Using Eon’s AI platform. Lifepoint says it has identified more than 100,000 high-risk abnormalities and delivered a 36% improvement in early-stage cancer diagnoses
Withings Health Solutions added Ilant Health to its Obesity Care Network and shared best practices to improve patient monitoring, engagement and outcomes. The post Withings Health Solutions Expands Obesity Care Network, Launches Best Practices for Treatment Programs appeared first on MedCity News.
Company lands $3 million in seed funding led by Canvas Ventures with participation from CoFound Partners, StoryHouse Ventures and several individual investors
The real change with AI will happen not when everyone adopts the technology, which is happening quickly, but when these AIs can actually communicate and coordinate with one another. The post The AI Drug Discovery Boom Is Coming. We Are Not Ready. appeared first on MedCity News.
Viking Therapeutics’ obesity pill met weight reduction goals of its Phase 2 test, but gastrointestinal side effects led to high discontinuation rates. Even so, analysts see potential for a lower dose of the Viking drug as a maintenance therapy. The post Side Effects Make Viking’s Oral Obesity Drug a Tough Pill for Investors to Swallow…
When Matthew Hurley was looking to take PrEP to prevent HIV, the doctor hadn’t heard of the medicine, and when he finally did prescribe PrEP, the bills sent to Hurley were expensive … and wrong. “I decided to write in because the process was really super frustrating.” At one point, Hurley asked, “Am I just…
Replacing a paper clipboard with a QR code on your phone doesn’t kill the clipboard; it’s just a better clipboard. Why? The burden is still on the patient. It’s the digital version of carrying a manila folder of records across town. This is a half-measure. It’s not true interoperability. The post Kill the Clipboard Tax appeared…