In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. drug overdose deaths have surged. The CDC estimates that more than 107,000 people died in 2021, an increase of nearly 15% from the more than 93,000 deaths in 2020.
But the pandemic also has brought a sudden boost in telehealth utilization. Regulations surrounding telehealth prescriptions of controlled substances were loosened during the public health...
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July 7, 2022
The advantages of telehealth beyond enabling physician/patient relationships to continue virtually are now driving adoption in many aspects of care provision that were critically disrupted by the pandemic – most notably preventive healthcare, remote patient monitoring and chronic disease management.
While clinicians derive great value from the flexibility and efficiencies enabled by these digital...
The widespread use of various smartphone apps launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, most notably contact-tracing applications, can be seen as a positive development.However, more research must be done to determine how these technologies can be refined for future use cases.
This was the key conclusion of a review paper published in Nature Biotechnology, whose authors said that, despite patient...
Singaporean health tech startup Mesh Bio and UK-based drug discovery firm MultiOmic Health have started collaborating to build a huge multi-omics dataset that will provide insights into metabolic syndrome-related conditions among Asians.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
According to a press statement, Mesh Bio will tap on its network of healthcare providers to recruit participants for their study, specifically...
Less than a year after it went public, diagnostics company Cue Health has laid off 170 manufacturing workers.
First reported by STAT, Cue said the layoffs reflected larger economic conditions, as well as the federal government's recent move to divert funding from COVID-19 testing to secure vaccines and treatments.
The diagnostics company is best known for its at-home molecular COVID-19 test,...
Healthcare data analytics startup Socially Determined announced Tuesday that it had closed a $26 million Series B funding round led by Questa Capital.
Other participants in the raise include existing investors LRVHealth, OSF Healthcare, Ziegler Link-Age Funds and HealthWorx. The startup wrapped up its $11.1 million Series A in early 2020.
WHAT IT DOES
Socially Determined is focused on using data...
Accessing and delivering healthcare in rural areas is a challenge in the U.S. Rural Americans face health disparities compared with their urban counterparts, and must travel further to get to a hospital. Meanwhile, hundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closure, and nineteen shut their doors in 2020 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Earlier this year, CEO Dr. Jennifer Schneider,...
PatientSource solution eliminates manual data gathering at Ichilov Hospital
A new electronic patient record (EPR) solution at Ichilov Hospital in Israel has reduced the time it takes clinicians to access patient data from six minutes to six seconds per appointment.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) selected UK vendor PatientSource to build the cloud-based solution, which integrates with hospital IT...
Amazon Web Services is now accepting applications for the latest cohort of its Healthcare Accelerator, which this year will target improving health outcomes for underserved communities.
The accelerator will accept 10 startups focused on increasing access to healthcare, reducing disparities by managing social determinants of health and using data for equity in healthcare. The companies will...
Tohoku University's Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, pharmaceutical firms Daiichi Sankyo and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., and medical IT company MICIN have started a collaborative research project to track long-term lifestyle habits to drive the creation of new drugs.
According to a press statement, the organisations will loan wearable tracking devices to about 2,000 participants. Over a year...
