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Google Cloud Teams With Mayo Clinic on Generative AI for Healthcare Data
June 07, 2023

Google Cloud and Mayo Clinic are collaborating to use generative artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. The collaboration aims to enable clinicians and researchers to find information in a way that is fast, seamless and conversational, the companies said in a Wednesday (June 7) press release....

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Optum Bid for Amedisys Shows Ongoing Reinvention of the Private Healthcare Ecosystem
June 06, 2023

The growing yet fragmented home health space is moving toward a more consolidated and centralized footing one deal at a time as major players continue snapping up smaller ones, reinventing home health as a consumer-centric product, service and experience, increasingly delivered by major brands. Done...

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Ozempic and GLP-1 Drugs Shift Weight Loss Scale Toward Medicine
June 05, 2023

When is a breakthrough diabetes and weight loss treatment problematic? Never — except perhaps when it drastically changes the multibillion-dollar weight loss industry, causing ripple effects that are benefitting patients and pharma manufacturers but spell change in other areas of health and wellness. Invented by pharmaceuticals...

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Nearly Three Quarters of Consumers Say Single Healthcare Portal Will Improve Patient Experience
May 30, 2023

Online portals have become a popular way to manage healthcare information and payments, but consumers must often use more than one portal, which is cumbersome at best, and that’s giving a boost to unified platforms that aggregate this information and activity in one place. Analyzing...

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Digital Is Disrupting Healthcare in Real Time With Fluid Patient-Provider Interfaces
May 30, 2023

Digital engagements are a daily way of life for hundreds of millions of consumers. That’s why the opportunity that the digitization of the healthcare industry offers is so exciting, according to Tivic Health CEO Jennifer Ernst. “You’re getting a real-time connection between a solution and a patient,” Ernst told...

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Baby Boomers and Seniors Make Big Gains in Online Healthcare and Digital Engagement
May 30, 2023

Among the last holdouts in healthcare’s digital shift are baby boomers and seniors, but new data shows that these groups, who previously reported high levels of tech aversion, are turning the corner and managing more aspects of their healthcare online. Implications for this shift are...

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Lime Co-Founder Launches Wellplaece Marketplace for Dentists — and a Peek Into Healthcare’s Coming Disruption
May 30, 2023

One small step for dental practices, one giant leap for disrupting the entire healthcare procurement process.   On Tuesday (May 30), Wellplaece announced the company’s Private Beta launch of its AI-driven platform that will give dental offices a single place to source, order and pay...

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Report: VC Firms Gearing Up for Investments in Healthcare
May 26, 2023

Venture capital (VC) firms are reportedly gearing up for further investments in healthcare. The pace of VCs’ fundraising for investments in the healthcare sector this year exceeds that of 2022, a year in which the second-highest total was raised, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported...

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Patient21 Raises $108 Million to Expand Digital Health Platform
May 22, 2023

German digital health startup Patient21 is targeting new markets after raising $108 million. The company announced its Series C funding round on Monday (May 22), saying it would use the financing to enter new markets in Europe and develop its software platform. Founded in 2019,...