As the first national coordinator for health information technology in 2004, David Brailer, current executive vice president and chief health officer at Cigna, said he and his team had four priorities: increase clinical decision-making quality, advance public health, accelerate consumer self-care and self-empowerment, and advance clinical research and science at the bedside. At Tuesday’s event, […]
Healthcare data analytics startup Clearsense raised $50 million in a Series D funding round led by HealthQuest Capital, with participation from Health Catalyst Capital and UPMC Enterprises. Along with the funding, Anthony Williams, partner at HealthQuest, will join Clearsense’s board. The startup raised $30 million in funding in 2021. “This investment into our organization further […]
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday alleged drug-cost and telehealth platform GoodRx shared consumers’ personal health information with third parties like Google and Facebook. According to the FTC’s complaint, GoodRx provided information about its users’ prescription medications and health conditions for advertising purposes, like targeting users with health-related ads on Facebook based on drugs they […]
VR digital therapeutic company MyndVR announced AgeWell New York’s insurance plans for Medicare and Medicaid patients would cover its senior-focused immersive offerings. As of January 1 the insurer’s CareWell plan members will have access to MyndVR’s senior-focused VR digital therapeutic as an alternative therapy option. MyndVR offers immersive travel experiences and entertainment, as well as occupational, physical […]
Researchers at a UK university are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to analyse different types of cancer cells to understand different gene dependencies and identify genes that are critical to a cell’s survival. The University of Sussex researchers have done this by developing a prediction algorithm that works out which genes are essential in the […]
Tesla’s infamous Full Self-Driving Beta v11 update was supposed to be here in November of last year, but it has been delayed many times. CEO Elon Musk now says it’s coming this week – if you believe him. Tesla FSD Beta v11 is both an exciting and scary step as it is supposed to merge […]
People in England are being encouraged to order a free home HIV test as part of a government drive to improve diagnosis rates. To mark National HIV Testing week, the tests can be ordered now via the NHS website freetesting.hiv. The test gives a result in 15 by analysing a drop of blood from the […]
NHS England has launched an information gathering exercise with an aim to establish a new cloud telephony framework. The plans are said to form part of a national strategy to set in place a new framework for general practice and provide a sole procurement route for primary care. A prior information notice has been published to […]
Three NHS trusts and NHS England have approved a financial plan for a shared electronic patient record system. Following approval of the outline business case, The Queen Elizabeth Hospitals King’s Lynn NHS FT, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS FT and James Paget University Hospitals NHS FT now have the go-ahead to procure a single EPR. A supplier […]
Digital Health and Care Wales has launched a new framework to support organisations in procuring electronic prescribing and medicines administration solutions. Nervecentre Software, CareFlow Medicines Management and Better have been awarded onto the framework. The programme aims to support hospitals in Wales call-off EPMA solutions on a local basis and run smaller competition processes. NHS […]
