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Digital endpoints: Global opportunities and clinical, data protection and other challenges – MedCity News
The term “digital endpoints” is often used to describe clinical trial endpoints that use sensors like smartphone microphones, wearables, and…
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Covid-19 roundup: Boosters for kids, CAR-NK cell therapy, Paxlovid rebound & more – MedCity News
When an FDA advisory committee meets next month to discuss Covid-19 vaccines for young children, they’ll also be able…
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Skeptical of future performance, spooked by recent misses, Needham analyst downgrades Medtronic’s stock – MedCity News
This is a case of three strikes and you get downgraded. On Friday, Needham analyst Mike Matson reacted to Medtronic’s…
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StartUPDATES: New developments from healthcare startups – MedCity News
Memory Health, the only supplement patented for the prevention and/or treatment of neurodegenerative disease, has been proven in another independent…
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LeanTaas CEO: EHRs are not built to handle capacity optimization – MedCity News
Interminable waiting. That is a reality in healthcare that causes tremendous frustration and deep patient dissatisfaction. One startup that has…
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It’s time to integrate liquid biopsy into colorectal cancer treatment decision-making – MedCity News
Since the mid-1980s, rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) have doubled in individuals ages 20 to 39. Just as notorious as…
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New Flagship Pioneering startup expands the protein universe to fuel drug discovery – MedCity News
From left: Flagship Origination Partner Yann Echelard; Flagship Origination Partner and ProFound Therapeutics President Kala Subramanian; Flagship Senior Associate Vini…
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The future is hybrid: How mobile software can help train healthcare professionals more effectively and efficiently – MedCity News
As the Covid-19 pandemic grew in the United States, hospital systems scrambled to accept the massive influx of patients and…
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Why it’s time for hospitals to modernize their payment systems – MedCity News
The Covid-19 pandemic forced nearly every company in every industry to learn how to operate differently, and that’s especially been…
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Aneesh Chopra: Greater ACO enrollment will bolster preventive care – MedCity News
In October, the Biden administration set a goal of ensuring all Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in alternative payment models by…
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Heart trouble report & clinical hold spell end of Antios, Assembly Bio HBV alliance – MedCity News
The quest for a cure for hepatitis B virus infection is leading antiviral drug developers to try new combinations…
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How an AI robot can help seniors battle loneliness – MedCity News
Powered by AI, ElliQ is a voice-operated robotic care companion designed to foster independence and provide support for older adults.…
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Zeke Emanuel weighs in on $200M jury verdict in favor of deceased patient denied proton beam therapy treatment – MedCity News
Following a jury’s recent decision to award a deceased man’s family $200 million in damages after the man was denied…
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Lack of diversity in clinical trials isn’t just a recruiting problem—it’s a data problem – MedCity News
One of the greatest challenges facing clinical trials today is the timely recruitment of participants, with 40% of cancer trials…
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CAR T without the toxicity: Kelonia gets $50M for a new take on cell therapy – MedCity News
Cell therapy started as highly personalized, with treatments made by taking a patient’s own immune cells and engineering them…
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Enanta RSV drug fails a Phase 2 test, but studies continue in higher-risk patients – MedCity News
Respiratory syncytial virus infection currently has no FDA-approved treatments, so biotech companies are targeting various viral components to try…
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How AI is transforming remote cardiac care for patients – MedCity News
The pandemic accelerated the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) in remote patient care. Physicians are increasingly using digital patient monitoring…
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Providers must choose their words carefully when pushing for telehealth expansion – MedCity News
The terms telehealth, telemedicine, virtual care and digital health are often used interchangeably, but that doesn’t mean they should be.…
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Protecting hospitals from evolving cyber threats – MedCity News
In parts one and two of this series, we focused on the challenges and solutions to help hospitals and healthcare…
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Survey finds more than half of hospitals have 100+ job vacancies – MedCity News
Healthcare staffing shortages were a serious concern nationwide well before Covid-19. But the pandemic and the “Great Resignation” have further…
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The outlook for tech-enabled personalized care in healthcare and life sciences – MedCity News
In the next five years, healthcare and life sciences organizations will be navigating unique, disruptive forces presented by a digital-first…
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“No other option”: Telehealth could be rural healthcare’s savior – MedCity News
“There is no future of rural healthcare without telehealth.” That was the message articulated by Alan Morgan, CEO of the…
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How will the interoperability rule transform value-based care? – MedCity News
Over the past two years, we’ve seen API requirements apply to providers, hospitals, and other entities across the healthcare system…
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Mahmee CEO: We’re making progress in eliminating disparities in maternal care – MedCity News
As glaring disparities in maternal care continue to threaten Black and Indigenous women—who are two to four times more likely to…
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Helping employers navigate healthcare in a post-pandemic world at INVEST Digital Health – MedCity News
Employers continue to reckon with the question of how best to serve their employees in a post pandemic world. They…
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To focus on cancer, Chimerix sells rights to antiviral drug that defined the biotech – MedCity News
Chimerix’s first approved drug had several high-profile setbacks and ended up with a much narrower regulatory nod than initially…
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Using smart patient-centered tech to reduce cost and time of clinical trials – MedCity News
Drug innovation and the product pipeline in the cardiometabolic space is lagging due to the inherent time and cost of…
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A look ahead: How medical affairs may evolve over the next five years – MedCity News
In the early 2000s, pharma companies unleashed legions of sales representatives to promote their products to physicians. Pharma sales teams…
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How to use analytics and automation to build an intelligent A/R strategy – MedCity News
The Covid-19 pandemic further complicated the ability of healthcare providers to collect on services rendered, a process that was already…
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Health plans, this is why real-time benefit tools have let you down – MedCity News
Real-time benefit tools (RTBTs) held a lot of promise, so why haven’t they captured the market? Ostensibly, RTBTs allow physicians…
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The time is right: Another shot to end cancer as we know it – MedCity News
I’ve been a big fan of the Cancer Moonshot since President Biden first championed the initiative when he was…
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Eli Lilly’s diabetes portfolio grows with FDA nod for projected blockbuster drug – MedCity News
An Eli Lilly drug that treats diabetes and also helps patients shave weight is now FDA approved, giving the…
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Are Physician White Coats Becoming Obsolete?
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Trisha Pasricha, MD, a gastroenterologist and research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, was…
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Combining behavioral & data sciences to optimize chronic disease management – MedCity News
Digital tools have become an essential part of our lives. Online calendars guide our daily routine; Waze and Google Maps…
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With the FTC’s conditional approval, Medtronic completes its $1.1B acquisition of Intersect ENT – MedCity News
It has in some ways been a long time coming, but Medtronic‘s $1.1 billion acquisition of medtech company Intersect ENT…
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Climate change is endangering the health of communities living near chemical facilities – MedCity News
As a global phenomenon, climate change is escalating and causing extreme weather events more and more frequently. While climate change…
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Could AI and an Apple Watch ECG improve the prognosis for heart failure? – MedCity News
Heart failure affects about 2% to 3% of people globally—including up to 9% of those over 60—and about 6.5 million…
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Medtronic aims to improve the colonoscopy with AI – MedCity News
The traditional colonoscopy has been shown to be a highly effective, lifesaving screening tool that can significantly reduce a person’s…
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The state of the healthcare workforce is both a catalyst for change and a hindrance – MedCity News
I’ve been speaking with many healthcare leaders lately and the standout trend – and worry – is the dwindling size…
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Startup Nuvig Therapeutics gets $47M to bring immune system back into balance – MedCity News
Autoimmune disease drugs work by addressing a protein or pathway associated with inflammation, targeting it to suppress the excessive…
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Turquoise Health raises $20M to boost price transparency – MedCity News
In an effort to improve price transparency in healthcare, laws have been passed to give consumers more cost information upfront,…
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Optimizing onboarding to improve the provider experience – MedCity News
The administrative burden in healthcare has reached a tipping point. Healthcare systems and their providers are increasingly weighed down by…
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Closely watched Roche drug fails a second pivotal test in lung cancer – MedCity News
An experimental Roche drug that’s part of a closely watched class of new cancer immunotherapies has failed one of…
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Osmind scores $40M investment to aid in mental health research and treatment – MedCity News
Meeting the growing mental health need has meant not only offering new treatments but putting more resources into studying the…
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A new kind of CMO: Why your company needs a chief medical officer – MedCity News
Prior to March 2020, any discussion of “employee healthcare” was almost exclusively limited to health insurance benefits, with the minor…
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Teladoc Health CEO highlights evolution of telemedicine – MedCity News
In an interview, Teladoc Health CEO Jason Gorevic shared how the company has changed, especially since the onset of the…
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Aiming to treat Parkinson’s by replacing neurons, Aspen Neuroscience nabs $147M – MedCity News
Parkinson’s disease patients lack sufficient amounts of a neurotransmitter that plays a key role in the brain’s ability to…
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INVEST Pitch Perfect winner: myBiometry aims to prevent asthma attacks long before they happen – MedCity News
The novel technology at the heart of myBiometry’s asthma solution is a patented sensor (top right) and device (center) that…
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General Catalyst VC: This type of collaboration with Intermountain is why we were put on earth – MedCity News
On Monday, General Catalyst, a venture capital firm, announced its third collaboration with a health system that leverages the former’s…
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Speaking the latest language of healthcare: digital health tech – MedCity News
Whether starting or maintaining treatment, the Embark App has multiple features that can help patients on ENBREL throughout their treatment…
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