Orbis Medicines’ Series A round of funding was led by New Enterprise Associates. The startup is developing oral macrocyclic drugs for targets validated by blockbuster biologic medications that must be administered by injection. The post A Startup’s €90M Financing for Oral Peptide Drugs Includes Backing from Eli Lilly appeared first on MedCity News.
By MICHAEL MILLENSON A Rock Health write-up of this year’s Epic Users Group Meeting captured the artificial intelligence vibe with a play on the names of three new AI chatbots rolled out by the country’s dominant electronic health record firm. “Epic Goes APE (Art, Penny and Emmie),” read the headline, using the first letters of…
In early April, President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about arm-wrestling them and announced he was signing executive orders to boost coal production, “bringing back an industry that was abandoned,” and to “put the miners back to work.” Trump said he calls…
It took nearly three years to win presumptive workers’ compensation coverage for breast, cervical, and other cancers that firefighters who work for federal agencies may develop because of hazardous exposures on the job. Now, just weeks after the Labor Department added coverage for those illnesses, firefighters worry the gains may be in jeopardy after the…
This Healthy System Tracker analysis, authored by KFF and the Peterson Center on Healthcare, examines remote monitoring technologies, identifying the types of patients and health conditions they serve and what is spent on these services.
Fall 2024 Hospital Safety Grade report sees reductions in healthcare-associated infections nationwide
To increase understanding of how shifting immigration policies may affect the direct care workforce providing long-term care services, this data note uses the 2023 American Community Survey (ACS) to provide an overview of the role that immigrants play in the direct care workforce for long-term care (LTC) services
The new drug payment initiative is designed to negotiate fairer prices for Medicaid
Google Cloud is partnering with healthcare organizations including CVS Health, Humana, Highmark Health, Quest Diagnostics and Waystar to deploy agentic AI tools across patient engagement, clinical workflows and revenue cycle management The post CVS, Humana & More Are Turning to Google’s AI Models appeared first on MedCity News.