STAT

APRIL 24, 2024

HCA Healthcare, the largest for-profit hospital chain in the United States, is planning to expand the use of an artificial intelligence tool to document doctor-patient interactions in its emergency rooms.

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STAT

MAY 1, 2024

In study documents, Mount Sinai doctors said the biopsies result in “the same amount of tissue loss” and “in effect, the same level of risk” for patients as standard DBS, because they are removing tissue that would otherwise be cauterized.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 8, 2024

WellSpan Health is taking the burden off its providers by deploying an AI-driven clinical documentation tool from Nuance. | DAX Copilot, from Microsoft’s speech recognition subsidiary Nuance Communications, integrates with Epic to draft clinical notes during visits.

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STAT

JANUARY 18, 2024

Microsoft on Thursday said it will launch its artificial intelligence tool for automating clinical documentation within health records software made by Epic, a move to embed the technology in health systems nationwide.

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Fierce Pharma

JUNE 7, 2023

On Wednesday, that vision came into better focus as the FDA released a document showing how the agency views the drug. . | As Alzheimer's partners Eisai and Biogen lay the groundwork for a wider launch of Leqembi, their efforts center on winning a full FDA approval.

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PhRMA

MARCH 29, 2023

This series – including surveys of 5,000 Americans conducted with Ipsos, a leading research company in the United States — documents a consistent trend in reports of insurer- and middlemen-imposed practices that can keep patients from the medicines and treatments that they need.

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Insurance Documentation 288

Fierce Healthcare

MAY 22, 2024

A wave of employee layoffs that UPMC announced last month was just one part of a broader restructure and operations “transformation” initiative, for which the nonprofit system has tapped management | An internal presentation obtained by Fierce Healthcare outlined April's “tough, but necessary" layoffs as one part of a broader look at the (..)

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Drug Topics

JANUARY 10, 2024

The estimated efficacy of the vaccine against documented infection for children and adolescents during the Omicron wave was 74.3% and 85.5%, respectively.

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Vaccines Documentation 219

STAT

JANUARY 29, 2024

LONDON — There was something odd about these Alzheimer’s cases. Part of it was the patients’ presentations: Some didn’t have the classic symptoms of the condition. But it was also that the patients were in their 40s and 50s, even their 30s, far younger than people who normally develop the disease.

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STAT

MAY 6, 2024

WASHINGTON – Two New York University professors collaborated directly with executives of the vaping company Juul without disclosing those relationships to academic journals or Congress, a STAT investigation reveals.

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Documentation 137

STAT

JULY 15, 2024

WASHINGTON – Top Food and Drug Administration officials met multiple times earlier this year to discuss the regulation of ultra-processed foods, according to internal agency calendars obtained by STAT.

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Drug Topics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

But is the collected information being used to help with documentation, care planning, and reimbursement? Big data and analytics are everywhere—including in independent pharmacy.

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Independent Pharmacies Documentation 225

STAT

MAY 31, 2024

More than three years ago, the National Institutes of Health launched a $1 billion-plus initiative to find the root causes and potential treatments for long Covid , the chronic disease that has quickly changed the lives of millions of Americans.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Specifically, a “large number of torn pieces” of documents that should have been kept to verify manufacturing and testing practices were found in the trucks, as well as in a scrap bag at a site run by Granules in Telangana, India.

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Pharmacy Times

JUNE 24, 2022

The impact of the pandemic on the mental health of health care workers, including pharmacists and pharmacy staff, has been well documented.

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Documentation 182

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

MAY 4, 2024

Lost documents prevented victims from finding out the truth, official inquiry told Disastrous failures that caused the contaminated blood scandal were denied by ministers for decades after officials destroyed, lost and blocked access to key documents, memos submitted to the official inquiry reveal. Continue reading.

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STAT

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it has some safety concerns about an experimental CRISPR-based treatment for sickle cell disease, citing the methods used by its makers to evaluate the risk of inadvertently making unwanted changes to patients’ DNA.

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Documentation FDA 119

Drug Topics

MARCH 22, 2024

Researchers aimed to address the adverse effects of veterans with COVID-19 diagnoses 18 months after infections were documented.

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Documentation 154

BioPharm

MAY 3, 2024

A new draft guidance issued by FDA covers human- and animal-derived materials used in the manufacture of advanced therapy medicinal products.

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Documentation FDA 111

Fierce Healthcare

JULY 27, 2023

Amazon Web Services announced Wednesday a new AI-powered service for healthcare software providers that will help clinicians with paperwork. | AWS HealthScribe uses generative AI and speech recognition to help doctors transcribe and analyze their conversations with patients and drafts clinical notes.

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Documentation 98

Pharmacy Times

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In the absence of a common treatment for long COVID, researchers from around the world documented the best currently available therapies.

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Documentation 153

PhRMA

JANUARY 25, 2023

This report is the latest to document this progress. The report notes the continued decline in death rates since 1991, including a 1.5% decrease between 2019 and 2020 alone, increasingly reflects advances in prevention and treatment—including new medicines which have improved survival across a range of cancers.

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Documentation 254

Pharmacy Times

JULY 11, 2024

In a follow-up to the interim FTC report documenting the business practices of PBMs and the power they hold in the pharmaceutical industry, the Commission now seeks to sue the 3 largest PBMs in the country for driving up the price of insulin and other essential drugs.

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Documentation 160

Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 14, 2024

Startup Abridge has notched it's largest partnership to date as Kaiser Permanente is making its generative AI tools for medical documentation available to more than 24,000 doctors across its system | Startup Abridge has notched it's largest partnership to date as Kaiser Permanente is making its generative AI tools for medical documentation (..)

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STAT

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group used secret rules to restrict access to rehabilitation care requested by specific groups of seriously ill patients, including those who lived in nursing homes or suffered from cognitive impairment, according to internal documents obtained by STAT.

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Pharmacy Times

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

IVIG was found to cease development of new lesions and heal previously documented erosions without adverse events to the patient or fetus.

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Documentation 132

Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Abridge, a startup that developed artificial intelligence-based documentation solutions for healthcare, has seen rapid growth in the past year, propelled by a "tornado of tailwinds," according to c | Abridge, a startup that developed artificial intelligence-based documentation solutions for healthcare, has seen rapid growth in the past year, (..)

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STAT

APRIL 11, 2024

Medicare for the first time has estimated that a new Alzheimer’s treatment could cost the program billions of dollars by next year — well beyond what Wall Street or even the drug’s manufacturer have projected — according to a document obtained by STAT.

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Documentation 138

STAT

MARCH 20, 2024

Johnson & Johnson has accused a long-standing employee of taking thousands of confidential files about commercial strategies as he left for a similar job at Pfizer, according to lawsuit filed in a federal court in New Jersey.

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Documentation 98

Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 16, 2024

Orlando Health has offered to buy Steward Health Care's three "Space Coast" Florida properties, including three hospitals and a medical practice, for $439 million, according to a court document fil | Orlando Health has offered to buy Steward Health Care's three "Space Coast" Florida properties, including three hospitals (..)

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Fierce Healthcare

AUGUST 20, 2024

The goal, according to Epic executives, is to ease the documentation burden for clinicians, streamline charting and coding and bring evidence-based medical insights and research right to doctors' fingertips at the point of care.

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Documentation 144

Fierce Healthcare

JULY 22, 2024

Abridge has spent the last six years building generative AI tools to help doctors with medical documentation and is now putting that technology in the hands of hospital nurses. | Abridge has spent the last six years building generative AI tools to help doctors with medical documentation and is now putting that technology in the hands of hospital nurses. (..)

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STAT

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

WASHINGTON — A new trove of internal emails and other documents from the e-cigarette maker Juul reveals the company’s extensive behind-the-scenes efforts to promote its interests in Washington — a rare insight into the otherwise opaque methods corporations use to influence the government.

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Documentation 128

STAT

DECEMBER 14, 2022

An extensive investigation jointly published by The New Yorker and ProPublica documented outright fraud, predatory practices, and flagrant mistreatment by specific publicly traded and private equity-owned hospice companies. Hospice in America is gravely ill. Read the rest…

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Documentation 145

STAT

APRIL 26, 2024

New federal rules aimed at limiting the spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus among dairy cattle go into effect Monday, but detailed guidance documents released Friday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture reveal its mandatory testing order is less stringent than initially described.

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STAT

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

billion, according to STAT’s analysis of financial documents the health system released Tuesday evening. The cyberattack that forced Ascension to shut off access to its electronic health records cost the nonprofit hospital system roughly $1.3 Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Hospitals Documentation 123

Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 28, 2024

According to the CDC, over 64 cases of measles have been documented in the US in 2024, already exceeding 2023's total of 58.

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