In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Blake Porter, chief of maternal-fetal medicine with Access TeleCare. He discusses the need to expand access to virtual maternal-fetal medicine care. The post MedCity FemFwd: The Importance of Virtual Maternal-Fetal Medicine appeared first on MedCity News.
At Wayne General Hospital in rural Mississippi, clinicians are using Eko Health’s AI-powered digital stethoscope to detect heart conditions earlier in patients with limited access to specialists. The post How A Small Rural Hospital Is Using AI to Catch Heart Disease Sooner appeared first on MedCity News.
It’s open enrollment season for Medicare Advantage, when people currently enrolled in private managed-care plans can either sign up for a new one or switch to original Medicare through March 31. But there’s a catch: If people want to move to original Medicare and buy a supplemental Medigap insurance plan to cover some out-of-pocket costs,…
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, deaths due to drug overdose among adolescents more than doubled, primarily driven by the synthetic opioid, fentanyl.
Uma Veerappan of Flare Capital Partners thinks the healthcare AI startups that will come out on top will be companies that integrate seamlessly into workflows, build proprietary datasets and quickly determine how to sell their technology. The post What Will Separate Healthcare AI Winners From Losers? appeared first on MedCity News.
There’s a new health innovation law firm in town! Rebecca Gwilt & Kaitlyn O’Connor have started Elevare Law to help health tech companies. We spent a little time talking about the new firm and who it’s going to work with, and a lot about the different legal and regulatory challenges facing digital health companies. Deep…
Success with agentic AI won’t come from racing to adopt the flashiest tools. It will come from strategic alignment, understanding where AI can create real value, mitigating risk through thoughtful implementation, and ensuring transparency and oversight at every step. The post From Hype to Impact: How Pharma Can Use Agentic AI to Drive Efficiency and…
For months, a cloud of fear has hovered over the immigrant community in San Bernardino, California, making it hard for María González to do her job as a community health worker in this city where almost a quarter of residents are foreign-born. It started building over the summer, fed by news of immigration raids across…
By 2030, the U.S. expects shortages of 200,000 nurses and 124,000 physicians snd similar shortages are already being felt in the U.K. and elsewhere. Here’s how to build and train a modern healthcare workforce in the age of AI The post Can AI Help Fix Our Demographic Time Bomb? appeared first on MedCity News.
Clinical trials focus in-sample (direct) effect of vaccines on health outcomes (e.g., decrease in illness, hospitalization, emergency department use, and death). Typically, however, clinical trials do not test whether the vaccines reduce transmission. FDA do not require this as it would be logistically challenging and costly to estimate indirect effects of vaccination within a clinical…