Stanford Medicine
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Stanford Becomes 2nd California Health System to Grant Workers’ Big Raises This Month
Healthcare workers at Stanford Medical Center and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital ratified a new agreement that increases their wages by 15% over the next three years. It’s been good month for nurses unions in Northern California — Kaiser Permanente nurses recently ratified a new contract that increased wages by 22.5% over four years and included provisions for improved staffing.
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Online allergy startup raises $1.25M in pre-seed round
Based in San Francisco, Allermi aims to create a national market for a customizable approach to allergy relief pioneered by a California doctor.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Health IT, Telemedicine, Diagnostics
Key investment opportunities to drive healthcare innovation in 2021
During a panel discussion at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, three physicians from Stanford Medicine discussed the investment opportunities that can help accelerate innovation in healthcare in the coming year.
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Hospitals, Pharma, Health Tech
Alphabet’s Verily boosts its Project Baseline with new health system, pharma partners
The company just announced strategic alliances with Novartis, Otsuka, Pfizer and Sanofi to develop new clinical research programs utilizing the Project Baseline platform across therapeutic areas ranging from cardiovascular disease to oncology to mental health.
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Devices & Diagnostics, Artificial Intelligence
Preliminary results are in from the massive Apple Heart Study
According to findings presented at the American College of Cardiology’s annual meeting, 0.5 percent of the more than 400,000 study participants received a notification about irregular pulse and 84 percent of participants who received irregular pulse notifications were found to be in atrial fibrillation at the time of the notification.
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How is Stanford Medicine’s Chief Wellness Officer seeking to reduce physician burnout? (Q&A)
“We’ve shown in a number of studies that every one point increase in burnout [as measured by a survey] increases the risk of a medical error in the next three months,” said Dr. Tait Shanafelt, Stanford Medicine’s chief wellness officer.
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Unsurprisingly, physicians aren’t thrilled with their EHRs
A new survey of 521 licensed primary care physicians found 21 percent are somewhat dissatisfied with their current EHR and 13 percent are very dissatisfied with it.
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Apple upgrades heart monitoring tech to flag arrhythmias, adds new study with Stanford Medicine
Apple COO Jeff Williams noted that the company has been working on improvements to its heart rate monitoring technology over the past couple of years and claimed that Apple’s heart rate monitor is the most widely used in the world.
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5 takeaways from Stanford Medicine’s report on the present and future of digital health
The report draws some interesting conclusions on the impact virtual visits, wearables, and predictive analytics will have on how healthcare is delivered in the future.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
