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The Federal Communications Commission has set a date for healthcare providers to submit applications for the second round of the COVID-19…
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Medical equipment and supply manufacturer Medline Industries is exploring a potential sale valued as high as $30 billion, The Wall…
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Physicians experienced extreme income volatility in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with some doctors indicating there were months where they had…
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The Biden administration is proposing to repeal Trump-era regulations that restricted what clinicians in federally funded family planning clinics can tell…
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Welcome to this week’s Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your…
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The digital health technology sector is growing rapidly, spurred on by the shift to virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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Intermountain Healthcare has agreed to purchase medical air transport company Classic Air Medical in a move to reinforce its rural…
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Boston-based Cohere Health has scored $36 million in its second round of funding less than a year after it launched.…
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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, patients were frustrated with how providers communicated with them, often requiring them to play phone tag,…
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Artificial intelligence startup Olive has entered the operating room with the acquisition of Empiric Health. Salt Lake City-based Empiric Health…
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The White House announced it will not buy more shots of Pfizer or Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines after a federal recommendation…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed major logistical challenges in healthcare as collecting and sharing medical data is still often a…
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New study data suggest that the variant of COVID-19 originating in the United Kingdom does not cause more severe illness…
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The House overwhelmingly passed legislation to pause cuts to Medicare payments to help providers still facing financial challenges due to…
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Mayo Clinic has launched a new initiative to collect and analyze patient data from remote monitoring devices and diagnostic tools…
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Rare cases of blood clots linked with Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine look similar to reports of clotting in people…
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Prisma Health and LifePoint Health have nixed a transaction involving three South Carolina hospitals and a free-standing emergency room due…
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Health tech giant Nvidia is collaborating with AstraZeneca and the University of Florida’s academic health center, UF Health, on new artificial…
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A new study found that racial and ethnic minority groups had a higher proportion of COVID-19 hospitalizations from March to…
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Microsoft plans to buy speech recognition company Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion to expand its reach into healthcare. The software…
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Hospitals and health systems had a smaller number of deals in the first quarter of the year compared to 2020,…
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More than 3,600 U.S. health care workers perished in the first year of the pandemic, according to “Lost on the…
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A startup is working with major academic medical centers to study whether a therapeutic video game can help patients suffering…
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Nonprofit hospitals spent less on charity care for the uninsured compared to for-profit and government hospitals, a new study found. The…
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MVP Health Care and the University of Vermont Health Network are launching a joint Medicare Advantage plan. MVP, a nonprofit…
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Women’s health startup Tia launched in 2017 with a focus on creating a modern medical home for women by integrating…
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Following its acquisition of video conferencing platform BlueJeans last year, Verizon has built out a telehealth platform for providers. Many hospitals…
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Virtual reality (VR) technology is emerging as one of the more promising, and nonaddictive, pain management tools. Los Angeles-based AppliedVR…
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COVID-19 forced providers to think about the balance between protecting patients from unnecessary exposure while ensuring they could still access…
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The Department of Health and Human Services appears to have begun conducting an outlier analysis on its reimbursement to healthcare…
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In its first major move into healthcare, Mastercard is teaming up with b.well Connected Health to launch a digital solution…
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It takes a certain type of doctor to be drawn toward critical care. Shifts in the ICU are grueling and…
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The American Medical Association innovation subsidiary Health2047 has spun off a company that uses personalized medicine to fight obesity. Phenomix…
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Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is the second major health system to sign on with Google to pilot its controversial clinical…
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The Federal Communications Commission this week unanimously approved a process for distributing nearly $250 million to help healthcare providers deliver…
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SOC Telemed has acquired Access Physicians to solidify its market position in the acute care telehealth space. The cash and…
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In a few days, a new regulation goes into effect that will give patients unprecedented access to their healthcare information…
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Starting next week, a new regulation goes into effect that will give patients easier access to their digital health records through…
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Advantia Health has opened a new flagship health practice in Washington, D.C. that takes a page from the hospitality industry. The…
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Two years after teaming up to boost data sharing and ease administrative headaches, Epic and Humana are ramping up their…
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As some countries and private companies have already begun experimenting with so-called “vaccine passports,” it’s likely digital vaccine credentials will…
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Cleveland Clinic and IBM have inked a 10-year partnership to leverage high-performance computing, artificial intelligence and quantum computing technologies to accelerate…
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A new study found strong evidence mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were highly effective in preventing infections among healthcare personnel and other…
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In the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift to digital health and drove unprecedented investments in the health…
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It may seem too good to be true to have an affordable health benefits plan that actually contains cost and…
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Telehealth giant Amwell saw a massive jump in virtual visits during the COVID-19 pandemic, tallying up 5.9 million visits in 2020, up…
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Ransomware attacks cost the healthcare industry $20.8 billion in downtime in 2020, which is double the number from 2019, according…
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The Senate overwhelmingly passed legislation Thursday to extend a pause on Medicare payment cuts through 2021, a major demand from…
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Tech’s biggest chief executives faced sharp criticism from members of Congress Thursday about how their companies are handling misinformation about…
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Healthcare “map maker” Komodo Health netted $220 million in new funding to build out its data analytics platform for healthcare and life…
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