This on-demand webinar explores the impact of poor data quality and methods to improve patient data quality. It highlights technology that can improve workflows to help reduce workforce burnout.

Increasingly, patients in the U.S. look to Canada for more affordable prescription options since the Canadian government regulates drug costs. Some companies have noticed and are beginning to capitalize on the demand.

The complaint alleges multiple violations of the Valentine Act, Ohio’s antitrust law, which prohibits price fixing, controlled sales and other agreements that restrain trade and hurt competition. David Yost, the attorney general decried the practices of PBMs saying that they hurt everyday Ohioans dependent on life-saving drugs like insulin.

A report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine finds nursing home care to be subpar, despite regulations to prevent poor care; recommendations for improvement include funding research and offering customized, integrated, and culturally sensitive care.

A study published in the Journal of Managed Care + Specialty Pharmacy found Medicare Advantage patients reduced their cost of care by using specialty pharmacies instead of mail order or retail pharmacies.

OFFOR Health brings mobile anesthesiologists and on-site clinical services to medical and dental practices such that certain procedures that needed to be done inside an operating room at the hospital can now be done in a doctor’s clinic. This leads to lower wait times for patients and reduced overall costs.

Earlier this month Honor launched its Honor Expert platform, an online tool for seniors, caregivers and family to ask questions and get answers about aging-related matters. The platform can also connect specialists to users and get them educational resources.

A firsthand account of one person’s journey through the healthcare system, the gaps in gestational diabetes care, and what can be done about it.

A study from the New England Journal of Medicine found that AI coupled with Butterfly iQ, a handheld ultrasound device, can assess fetal gestational age as accurately as a trained sonographer with expensive, bulky equipment; the findings have implications for democratizing obstetric ultrasounds.

One company is addressing violence against healthcare workers with a panic button, which has been deployed in the psychiatric and addition services units at the Behavioral Wellness Center in Philadelphia.

A new CB Insights report found global digital health funding fell 36 percent in the first quarter of the year from that in Q4, 2021, with mental health and digital therapeutics suffering the greatest quarter-on-quarter decline.

Pictor is partnering with Mobility Health to distribute Pictor’s novel Covid-19 antibody test, which can assess in one test if a person has antibodies to protect against Covid-19 and if that is due to infection or vaccination; Pictor also received a $6.1 million investment.

Through, Decision Path, Cardinal Health is offering cost and indication comparisons for oncology treatments, all within the EHR, for point-of-care use and help patients avoid financial toxicity.

Penn Medicine created a custom digital workflow platform designed to improve care and break down silos to improve patient care. a vast majority of departments voluntarily adopted the platform.

A new report that showed a sharp increase in cybersecurity attacks in 2021 urged organizations to consider when, not if, they too will be under attack. Attacks are becoming more sophisticated and socially engineered making them harder to detect.

XACT Robotics provides real-time monitoring and guided image planning with both precise robotic insertion and non-linear steering that executives believe can lead to better patient outcomes and lower hospital costs for percutaneous procedures done by interventional radiologic means.

According to a CB Insight’s report, GV (formerly Google Ventures) funded the most digital health companies with 22 investments, making it most active investor in that sector for four years in a row.

Preventia and LifeOmic partnered to create the free LIFE Extend app to serve mental health needs of Butler University students. It not only connects them to online therapists, but also helps students track their sleep, exercise, nutrition, and mindfulness.

Galileo now offers around the clock medical care in Spanish to the insured and uninsured alike, hoping to reach underprivileged and minority patients, especially the 53 million Spanish-speaking people in America.

Director of payer sales at Ovia Health, Kami Wigginton, experienced discriminatory care first-hand when she had cervical cerclage surgery and labored for 30 hours during her first pregnancy. She weighs in on racism in maternity care and Ovia’s mission to support families through pregnancy.

Magellan Healthcare, a managed health company, will offer some California members access to Ria Health’s at-home alcohol use disorder treatment program.

A 2022 report by patient safety company ECRI listed the top ten risk factors to patient safety and provided actionable steps to mitigate each risk.

Boston Children’s Hospital and Shields Health Solutions partnered to launch Boston Children’s Pharmacy, a specialty pharmacy, right across from the hospital to help young patients and families get better access to specialized pharmacy services including help with prior authorizations, and specialized medications.

Telemedicine has a place in orthopedics; not only can range of motion measurements be taken virtually as effectively as in-person, but telehealth offers additional advantages including the potential to take 2D measurements that help …..

EHR powerhouse Epic Systems sued Tata Consultancy Services in 2014 for stealing trade secrets and the court awarded Epic $940 million, which was reduced to $420 million in 2017 and again to $280 million in 2020. The Supreme Court this week rejected Epic’s request to raise the amount back up to $420 million.

BioCoach will use its $4 million seed funding from SecretLab LLC founder Jason Bright to scale its platform that tackles prediabetes by offering customized diet coaching, including meal plans and grocery lists.

A retrospective study published in American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy found that machine learning and advanced analytics technology not only identifies drug diversion – when drugs are stolen from hospitals – but also that the tech can do so 160 days faster than standard methods, and with a 96.3% accuracy rate.

DNA sequencing power house Illumina sued liquid biopsy company Guardant Health, whose founders used to work for Illumina, claiming the two stole information from Illumina to file patents for Guardant. Illumina alleges that one of the executives misappropriated confidential information while he was still on Illumina’s payroll.

Avive raised $22 million in its recent Series A funding round to further develop its intelligent automated external defibrillator technology and platform that work like Doordash, but for AED delivery and help during cardiac arrest; it is already piloting its program in select cities.

PathAI is partnering with Cleveland Clinic to digitize pathology slides and develop and improve PathAI’s machine-learning algorithms that can drive research as well as improve patient outcomes in a clinical setting. Pramana is launching its digital pathology as a service product and has struck a multi-year commercial agreement with Mayo Clinic to digitize 5 million pathology slides.