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Using Next-Generation Antibiotics to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance

LifeSciencesIntelligence The rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant threat to global health and demands urgent attention. Antibiotics, once hailed as miracle drugs, are losing their effectiveness due to the emergence of resistant bacterial...

Epic Taps Ambient Intelligence to Streamline Clinical Documentation

EHRIntelligence EHR documentation requirements have led to clinician burnout, with the average clinician spending over 16 minutes per patient encounter using the EHR. However, advancements in ambient intelligence are transforming clinical documentation,...

Developing Quality Assurance Standards for Biologics, Biosimilars

PharmaNewsIntelligence Biologics and biosimilars are a rapidly growing sector of the biopharmaceutical industry. However, as the field grows, multiple challenges arise in the manufacturing and quality assurance guidelines for biologics and biosimilars....

Automating Blood Glucose Monitoring Through New Technology

LifeSciencesIntelligence Patients actively managing their diabetes — and their providers — understand the critical importance of regular blood sugar monitoring for disease management. Blood sugar checks help patients and providers assess whether their...

Reshaping the PBM, Payer Relationship Could Improve Access to Care

HealthCareExecIntelligence Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and health insurers have significant influence on prescription drug costs and, as a result, on access to care, but the traditional model for this relationship may not support affordability.  PBMs were...

Understanding the Impact of the Change Healthcare Cyberattack on Providers

HealthITSecurity Change Healthcare suffered a cyberattack on February 21st at the hands of the notorious BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware group, forcing it to take its systems offline. As the sector enters the second week of outages, operational disruptions and...

What is Virtual Reality and its Healthcare Use Cases?

mHealthIntelligence With the advancements in digital healthcare, various tools are now being used to provide healthcare services and support the patient care journey. These include tools typically used in other industries, such as smartphones, cloud storage...

Top Patient Engagement Challenges Affecting Rural Healthcare

PatientEngagementHIT In a challenging industry landscape like medicine, the topic of rural healthcare stands out for its complexity. Those complexities can affect patient engagement efforts, in particular, and can stymie provider efforts to support care...

Continuous Manufacturing Revolutionizes Pharmaceutical Production

PharmaNewsIntelligence In the pharmaceutical sector, continuous manufacturing (CM) has emerged as a transformative technology with the potential to revolutionize the industry. As drugmakers seek to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure a resilient supply...

Healthcare Faces Uncertainty Amid Change Healthcare Cyberattack

HealthITSecurity UPDATE 2/29/2024 - BlackCat/ALPHV has claimed responsibility for the attack and denied using the ConnectWise vulnerabilities for initial access. Healthcare organizations everywhere are feeling the impact of the Change Healthcare...

Exploring the Surge of Early-Onset Stomach Cancer

LifeSciencesIntelligence In recent years, a concerning trend has emerged in healthcare circles: a significant rise in the incidence of stomach cancer among individuals under 50.   This demographic shift, characterized by a surge in gastrointestinal...

Exploring the Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP) Publication, How to Use It

HealthITSecurity The “Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients” publication, known as “HICP” for short, is the product of healthcare industry leaders and government representatives coming...

How an FQHC is Using RPM to Care for its High-Risk Patient Population

mHealthIntelligence A trenchant problem in efforts to advance virtual care utilization is that patients who would benefit the most from these technologies are often unable to access them. To address this issue, rural healthcare providers, including community...

Exploring 5 Healthcare Imaging Techniques: Uses and Limitations

LifeSciencesIntelligence Advancements in healthcare imaging technologies and techniques have revolutionized diagnostics and disease monitoring. As these tools continue to develop and evolve, healthcare providers can leverage them for early disease diagnosis,...

Understanding Digital Health Passports in a Post-Pandemic World

PharmaNewsIntelligence According to the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) — which refers to digital health passports, digital health passes, and vaccine passports interchangeably — digital health passports are a health documentation tool...

How Family Physicians Can Solve US Maternal Health Problems

PatientEngagementHIT It’s not a secret that healthcare is staring down a maternal mortality problem. But what might be less known is the critical role family physicians can play in ameliorating it. “This country has a lot of work to do on maternity...

Developing a New ‘EyePhone’ mHealth App for Stroke Detection

mHealthIntelligence Strokes are one of the deadliest killers in America, ranking fifth among all causes of death nationwide. The widespread prevalence of strokes is driving an urgent need for technology that enables rapid and accessible detection of the...

How Data-Informed Risk Stratification Can Support Suicide Prevention

HealthITAnalytics As the mental health crisis in the United States persists, supporting patients and preventing adverse outcomes are top priorities for healthcare providers. However, the national behavioral health workforce shortage and access barriers to...

Using VR to Create an Immersive Mental Health Support System

mHealthIntelligence Virtual reality (VR) technologies offer exciting new promises for healthcare delivery, particularly in the mental health arena. With advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing, and computer vision,...