Consumer

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By  Jessica Hagen 02:22 pm November 28, 2023
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company announced it partnered with PharmcoRx Pharmacy, a Florida-based health service organization Progressive Care subsidiary, and tech-enabled Expion Health's to lower drug prices for consumers.  PharmcoRx has become a participating pharmacy in MCCPDC's Team Cuban Card, which allows patients at PharmcoRx locations access to generic and brand-name medications at MCCPDC...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:21 pm November 27, 2023
OpenAI's GPT-4 correctly diagnosed 52.7% of complex challenge cases, compared to 36% of medical journal readers, and outperformed 99.98% of simulated human readers, according to a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine. The evaluation, conducted by researchers in Denmark, utilized GPT-4 to find diagnoses pertaining to 38 complex clinical case challenges with text information...
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By  Nathan Eddy 11:19 am November 22, 2023
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced the launch of Evinova, a health technology business focused on bringing digital health solutions already in use globally by the pharma company to clinical research organizations (CROs), trial sponsors and care teams, and patients. The new company will use established digital technology solutions to streamline clinical trial design and delivery in order...
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By  Jessica Hagen 05:47 pm November 21, 2023
Syra Health, a healthcare technology company that provides tools to analyze population health, announced it signed a five-year $275,000 contract to examine the City of San Antonio's implementation of its Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) project.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) REACH project is a national program administered by the Centers for...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:58 pm November 21, 2023
Healthcare management platform Laudio announced that Houston-based Memorial Hermann Health System has joined its Series B funding round as a strategic investor and will implement its administrative workflows to drive employee efficiency and engagement. Laudio's AI-enabled platform provides healthcare management personnel with recommendations on engaging with their team to reduce burnout and...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:42 pm November 20, 2023
VR behavioral health platform BehaVR is merging with virtual chronic care-management company Fern Health to form RealizedCare, a digital care-management platform for chronic pain powered by digital therapeutics.   BehaVR developed mental and behavioral health prescription digital therapeutics, which include treatments for pain, stress, anxiety and addiction. The Tennessee-based company also...
Dr. Patrick Carroll, chief medical officer at Hims & Hers
By  Jessica Hagen 04:09 pm November 16, 2023
Direct-to-consumer virtual care company Hims & Hers Health announced last week the launch of a new AI-enabled offering, MedMatch, which provides healthcare providers with anonymized data points generated from the company's customer database, aimed at helping mental health professionals identify suitable treatments for patients. Dr. Patrick Carroll, chief medical officer at Hims & Hers,...
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By  Jessica Hagen 04:37 pm November 15, 2023
Amazon's hybrid primary care provider One Medical announced partnerships this week with Hackensack Meridian Health to improve access to care for New Jersey residents, CommonSpirit Health's Virginia Mason Franciscan Health to increase care access to Seattle residents and the Health Transformation Alliance to expand care options for employers.  One Medical, which Amazon purchased for $3.9 billion...
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By  Jessica Hagen 11:45 am November 15, 2023
Mental health startup UpLift announced it acquired women-focused digital psychiatry platform Minded, increasing its women-led offerings and expanding its reach to five additional states.  UpLift's behavioral health platform offers patients access to in-network therapists and mental health providers virtually or in person. Therapists can also use the platform to find clients and manage their...
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:45 pm November 14, 2023
Dallas-based Pieces Technologies, a healthcare generative AI company for care teams, announced it incorporated Amazon Web Services' genAI offerings to create Sculpted AI, a technology that can tailor to health systems' specifications and embeds AI within electronic health record clinical workflows.  Sculpted AI leverages Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon SageMaker Canvas to...