Category: global health

Pregnant women at risk in Malawi as drug shortage prevents caesareans

Africa, Childbirth, Global development, global health, Health, hospitals, Malawi, maternal health, Pharmaceuticals industry, Women, World news / November 22, 2021 November 22, 2021

Patients travelling long distances to find surgery cancelled as lack of anaesthetics shuts operating theatres in half of hospitals Almost half of Malawi’s district hospitals have closed their operating theatres due to a dire shortage of anaesthetics. Maternity care has been affected by a lack of drugs, said doctors. Surgery, including caesareans, has been cancelled …

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WHO endorses use of world’s first malaria vaccine in Africa

Africa, Business, Children's Health, GlaxoSmithKline, Global development, global health, Health, Malaria, Medical research, Pharmaceuticals industry, Science, Society, World Health Organization, World news / October 6, 2021 October 6, 2021

World Health Organization’s director general hails ‘historic day’ in fight against parasitic disease The World Health Organization has recommended the widespread rollout of the first malaria vaccine, in a move experts hope could save tens of thousands of children’s lives each year across Africa. Hailing “an historic day”, the WHO’s director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom …

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MPs tell Johnson: you have a duty to help vaccinate the world

coronavirus, Global development, global health, Health, Health Policy, Layla Moran, Pharmaceuticals industry, Politics, UK news, Vaccines and immunisation / May 31, 2021 May 31, 2021

Exclusive: group urges prime minister to tackle ‘desperate shortage’ in developing nations Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Boris Johnson has a “moral duty” to immediately start matching each vaccine administered at home with a donated dose to poorer countries across the world, a cross-party group of MPs and peers has said. …

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Revealed: big shortfall in Covax Covid vaccine-sharing scheme

AstraZeneca, Business, coronavirus, Global development, global health, India, Pharmaceuticals industry, Vaccines and immunisation, World news / April 22, 2021 April 22, 2021

Only a fifth of doses expected by May delivered as export bans, hoarding and supply shortages bite Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The global vaccine-sharing initiative Covax has so far delivered about one in five of the Oxford/AstraZeneca doses it estimated would arrive in countries by May, according to a Guardian …

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What price a child’s life? India’s quest to make rare disease drugs affordable

Biology, Business, Children's Health, Genetics, Global development, global health, Health, India, Medical research, Pharmaceuticals industry, Science, Society, South and Central Asia, World news / March 15, 2021 March 15, 2021

Parents whose only hope was finding foreign sponsorship or a clinical trial are now looking for homegrown breakthroughs For three years, Vidya tried to find the cause of her son’s recurrent fevers and low cognitive development. When she found out, she was devastated. Vineeth, 10, has an incurable illness – mucopolysaccharidosis type 2 – that …

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Innovative, Non-Invasive Technologies Advanced Earlier Detection & Monitoring of Liver Disease

American Hospital Association, cancer, diabetes, Echosens, FDA, global health, Health Systems, Hypertension, insulin, obesity, Opinion, Patient Care, Patient Engagement, Physician Practices, Physicians, point of care, primary care, risk / March 5, 2021 March 5, 2021

Jon Gingrich, CEO, Echosens North America Leveraging technological advances to facilitate new ways of engaging patients and integrating non-invasive technology into a liver disease program not only serves to improve individual outcomes and reduce costs but also strengthens the financial performance of health systems and provider organizations that include this approach to testing. At a …

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Data-Driven Future: Impact of Machine Learning on Diabetes Management

AI, AI in healthcare, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Ascensia Diabetes Care, behavior, bioinformatics, Clinical Trials, cloud, CONTOUR®DIABETES app, diabetes, diabetes app, diabetes management, Diabetic Retinopathy, Digital Healthcare, DreaMed Diabetes, Electronic Medical Records, Genomics, global health, google, healthcare delivery, insulin, Machine Learning, medical records, medication, mobile health, Opinion, Patient Monitoring, radiology, remote patient monitoring, risk, Telehealth, type 1 diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, Virta Health / March 2, 2021 March 2, 2021

Athar Siddiqui: Global Strategy Lead, Digital Connected Solutions – Ascensia Diabetes Care “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other” – Bill Gates wrote this in 1999 and, nowadays, the same can certainly be said about information technology and healthcare. …

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COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout: Why Success Hinges on Technology

COVID-19, global health, Infectious Disease, public health, technology / March 1, 2021 March 1, 2021

COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout: Why Success Hinges on Technology Squelching the pandemic depends on a rapid rollout of vaccines across the world. Technology is one of the lynch pins of success. The Doctor Weighs In

Top 5 Business Opportunities for Digital Health Companies in 2021. Where Is The Money?

apple, Apple Watch, digital health, Global Digital Health, global health, mHealth, Notable, Opinion, Patient Care, Patient Monitoring, Remote Patient Care, remote patient monitoring, Research2Guidance, Rock Health, Salesforce, sensors, Tactio, Telehealth, Telehealth Services, Verily, video, workplace, Zocdoc / January 25, 2021 January 25, 2021

Ralf-Gordon Jahns, Managing Director of R2G For many companies, 2020 has been a devastating year due to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the same can be said for the digital health sector, the pandemic has also paved a way for unexpected and extraordinary business opportunities in 2021. In 2020, Digital health start-ups and …

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World’s poor need action, not Covid ‘vaccine nationalism’, say experts

Africa, AstraZeneca, coronavirus, Global development, global health, Health, Infectious Diseases, Norway, Pfizer, Pharmaceuticals industry, Vaccines and immunisation, World Health Organization, World news / January 22, 2021 January 22, 2021

Nations outbidding each other creates an ‘immoral race towards the abyss’ Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Pharmaceutical companies should do more to transfer vaccine technology to prevent the poorest countries falling behind in the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, according to an expert. The warning came from Dag-Inge Ulstein, the co-chair of …

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Traditional RESTful APIs Will Not Solve Healthcare’s Biggest Interoperability Problems

Amazon, API, APIs in Healthcare, blockchain, Caregivers, cloud, Data Governance, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, FHIR, global health, google, google cloud, Health IT, Health IT Interoperability, Healthcare API platforms, Healthcare Interoperability, hitech, HL7, Interoperability, medical records, Microsoft, Middleware, Opinion / January 12, 2021 January 12, 2021

Brian Platz, Co-CEO and Co-Chairman of Fluree Interoperability is a big discussion in health care, with new regulations requiring interoperability for patient data. Most approaches follow the typical RESTful API approach that has become the standard method for data exchange. Yet Health Level Seven (HL7), with its new Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard for …

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2020’s Top 20 Digital Health M&A Deals Totaled $50B

Acute Care, AI, ALLSCRIPTS, AMN Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, cancer, Cardiac Monitoring, Care Coordination, care teams, CarePort, CarePort Health, CareZone, Central Logic, Cerner, Change Healthcare, Cloudbreak Health, Collective Medical, Data Analytics, digital health, Digital Healthcare, global health, Health and Human Services, Health Systems, healthcare it, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, Healthcare Payments, Heart, home health, InTouch Health, Kantar Health, Life Sciences, Livongo, Machine Learning, Medicare, medication, Oncology, Partners, Patient Access, Patient Care, Payers, Pharmacy, Philips, PointClickCare, post-acute care, Private Equity, Radiation Oncology, radiology, rcm, revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, SAN FRANCISCO, senior care, Siemens, Siemens Healthineers, Startups, Stratus Video, Teladoc, Telehealth, Telemedicine, UPMC, Veritas, Veritas Capital, video, virtual care, Virtual Care Platform, Vital, Walmart, Waystar / December 31, 2020 December 31, 2020

Teladoc Health and Livongo Merge The combination of Teladoc Health and Livongo creates a global leader in consumer-centered virtual care. The combined company is positioned to execute quantified opportunities to drive revenue synergies of $100 million by the end of the second year following the close, reaching $500 million on a run-rate basis by 2025. …

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As Telehealth Surges, Are Seniors Being Left Behind?

Caregivers, CMS, Coronavirus (COVID-19), dementia, global health, Health Disparities, healthcare technology, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Opinion, Population Health, Population Health Management, risk, senior care, Telehealth, Telehealth Visits, Telemedicine, video, virtual healthcare, Vital, workplace / December 11, 2020 December 11, 2020

Anne Davis, Director of Quality Programs & Medicare Strategy at HMS A global health crisis has thrust us into a scenario in which lives quite literally depend on the ability to virtually connect. Telehealth has rapidly emerged as a vital tool, enabling continuity of care, allowing vulnerable individuals to access their physician from home, and …

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NLP is Raising the Bar on Accurate Detection of Adverse Drug Events

adverse drug events (ADEs), AI, big data, Clinical Trial, Clinical Trials, cloud, Coronavirus (COVID-19), global health, google, Health IT, Life Sciences, medication, model, Natural Language Processing (NLP), NLP, Opinion, patient safety, social media, video, Vital / November 30, 2020 November 30, 2020

David Talby, CTO, John Snow Labs Each year, Adverse Drug Events (ADE) account for nearly 700,000 emergency department visits and 100,000 hospitalizations in the US alone. Nearly 5 percent of hospitalized patients experience an ADE, making them one of the most common types of inpatient errors. What’s more, many of these instances are hard to …

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WELL Health Integrates with Cerner’s Patient Portal to Simplify Patient Communication

Cerner, global health, Health IT, Health Systems, Medical Transportation, Patient Engagement, patient portal, patient satisfaction, Portal, Virtual Visits / November 11, 2020 November 11, 2020

What You Should Know: – Cerner is striking a deal with patient communication hub company WELL Health to change its patient communication technology for its provider customers. – Through Cerner’s HealtheLife, the new capabilities will pull from a myriad of systems and apps to help improve communication and reduce administrative time for clinicians and staff. …

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WHO, Wikipedia Expands Public Access to Trusted Info About COVID-19

Coronavirus (COVID-19), digital health, global health, public health / October 23, 2020 October 23, 2020

What You Should Know: – The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Wikimedia Foundation forms collaboration to expand public access to reliable, trusted information about COVID-19. – The collaboration is part of a shared commitment from both organizations to ensure everyone has access to critical public health information surrounding the global coronavirus pandemic. The World …

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WellSky Acquires CarePort Health from Allscripts for $1.35B

Acute Care, ALLSCRIPTS, Care Coordination, CarePort, CarePort Health, EHR-Agnostic, EMR, global health, Health IT, Health Systems, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, Patient Care, patient satisfaction, Payers, post-acute care, Predictive Analytics, Value-Based Care, Vital / October 14, 2020 October 14, 2020

What You Should Know: – Health technology leader WellSky has agreed to acquire CarePort Health to power coordinated care transitions for acute and post-acute care patients for $1.35B. – By providing end-to-end visibility across the continuum, WellSky and CarePort can improve outcomes, lower costs, and increase patient satisfaction. WellSky, a global health, and community care …

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Analysis: July Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance

ACA, ALLSCRIPTS, Amazon, apple, big data, CIOX, cloud, Department of Health and Human Services, digital health, Doctor on Demand, Donald Trump, Edifecs, Facebook, Genomics, global health, google, Heal, Health and Human Services, Health Catalyst, Health IT, healthcare growth, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, Healthfinch, himss, HIT, Humana, integrity, IPO, M&A, Microsoft, mobile health, NLP, Optum, Optum Ventures, Partners, Payers, Pharmacy, primary care, Private Equity, R1, Sema4, Telemedicine, TeleTracking, Truepill, Walgreens, WASHINGTON / August 7, 2020 August 7, 2020

– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of July 2020. While a pandemic ravages the country, technology valuations are soaring. The Nasdaq hit an all-time high during the month of July, sailing through the 10,000 mark to post YTD gains …

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Telehealth’s Time Has Come. And It’s Here to Stay.

care teams, Caregivers, chronic care, Collective Health, digital health, global health, Health Systems, home health, Medicare, mental health, model, Opinion, Pack Health, patient safety, Physicians, risk, rural health, Telehealth, Telemedicine, Virtual Visits, Wearables / July 21, 2020 July 21, 2020

Ernie Ianace, EVP Sales and Marketing at VitalTech “The numbers don’t lie,” is a famous old adage and quite appropriate with regard to the rapid rise and deployment of telehealth solutions in the medical community. It may have taken a global pandemic for society to recognize and investigate the rewards of its adoption, but statistics …

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