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‘Abortion Trafficking’: Taking a Minor Out of State for an Abortion Is Now a Crime in Idaho:
The law creates a crime of “abortion trafficking” and criminalizes the “recruiting, harboring, or transporting” of minors without parental consent
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Devices & Diagnostics, Artificial Intelligence
Season 2 of MedCity Pivot Podcast Launches with Conversation of Zephyr AI CTO
Season 2 of our MedCity Pivot Podcast launches today with a conversation about how AI can be leveraged to transform precision medicine.
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Jorie Healthcare CEO Shares Why Automation is Critical to Revenue Cycle Management
The revenue cycle management business is using AI tools to automate cumbersome tasks to help hospitals operate more efficiently. It’s beginning to attract the attention of major healthcare organizations.
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Social Media Is Touting New Weight Loss Drugs. Are Regulators Watching?
Competition to claim a market that could be worth $100 billion a year for drugmakers alone has triggered a wave of advertising that has provoked the concern of regulators and doctors worldwide.
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Artificial Intelligence, BioPharma
Why Sofinnova is Betting on the Confluence of Digital Technology and the Life Sciences
Paris-based Sofinnova Partners announced last week that it has launched a new strategy aimed at investing in a new breed of startups that straddle the lines between data and biology.
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MedCity Pivot: Blue Shield of California CEO Says Value of HealthTech Has Been Mixed So Far
Paul Markovich believes in the value of health tech in managing both chronic diseases and in general health and wellness. In this episode, he talks about the company’s Wellvolution platform and the digital tools that are offered there to members, now even to those on Medicaid.
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Health IT, Health Tech, Physicians, SYN
The Areas That Intermountain Health’s CIO Wants To Address With Technology (And the One He Doesn’t)
In an interview at the Vive conference in Nashville, Tennessee, Craig Richardville, Intermountain’s chief digital and information officer outlined the three areas of priority for Intermountain Health for which technology can be leveraged. But when it comes to a major headache for CIOs, Richardville seems to suggest that a government-led all-hands-on-deck approach is what is needed.
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“Culling of the Herd”: How One CEO Believes SVB’s Failure May Accelerate M&A in Healthtech
Included Health CEO Owen Tripp believes that the sudden demise of Silicon Valley Bank may actually lead to a “culling of the herd” as healthtech companies yet to prove their value will stop functioning as standalone companies or get bought by larger companies with stable revenue and a proven business model.
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Joint Commission CEO Wants to “Dispel the Myth” that Decarbonizing Healthcare Is Costly
Some actions to reduce healthcare’s carbon footprint actually will save money, said Jonathan Perlin, CEO of the nonprofit national and international accrediting organization.
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Navigating Healthcare’s Data Revolution: Priorities, Opportunities, and Challenges for Health Systems
Arcadia recently partnered with HIMSS Market Insights to survey executives, IT, technology, and clinical leaders. Here’s what we found.
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Medcity Pivot Podcast: Chronic Disease Management With an Interventional Cardiologist
Steve Driver is an interventional cardiologist as well as medical director of digital therapeutics at Advocate Aurora Health, which last year merged with Atrium Health. In this episode, he talked about a pilot involving Omada Health targeting a prediabetes population, among other things.
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Q&A: As Congressional Heat Builds on PBMs, What Is the Message From the Industry Lobby?
The largest six pharmacy benefit managers are being scrutinized by the Federal Trade Commission, while Congress is debating the Pharmacy Benefit Transparency Act. Meanwhile, states have their own ideas for reining in what they see as excesses of the industry. With all this heat, what is the message from the head of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association?
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Heartpoint Global Hopes To Disrupt Congenital Pulmonary Hypertension Treatment With Minimally Invasive Device
A new treatment under development by HeartPoint Global seeks to provide a minimally invasive and cheaper alternative to current treatments for pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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MedCity Pivot Podcast Season 1 Launches With Focus on Chronic Disease Management
Season one focusing on chronic disease management kicks off with a conversation with Stephanie Tilenius, CEO of Vida Health that aims to treat both the mind and the body.
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
With Livongo, did Zane Burke sell a lemon to Teladoc’s Jason Gorevic?
Was Livongo a good business? As Burke, now CEO of Quantum Health, touts its strength to investors ahead of a potential IPO, should the Livongo-Teladoc history give them pause?