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This week's top stories include Walmart using Epic's EHR platform, large health insurers controlling the market in nearly three-quarters of the country, and Amazon debuting the Halo View wearable.
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Loneliness is a real issue for both patients and providers, and more empathetic care is needed to alleviate it, says Frank Cutitta, founder and CEO of HealthTech Decisions Lab.
A prediction model that used wearable data was able to detect pre-symptomatic H1N1 and rhinovirus.
This collaboration will work with an unnamed pharma company in Japan to know how its drugs behave compared to rival products.
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We have to give patients treatments and tools that align with what they are looking for, says Savvy Cooperative founder and CEO Jen Horonjeff.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is trialling the solution which is popular in Portugal.
The system can stream the data into an EHR, mobile app, cloud portal or integrated monitoring system.
The most common arrhythmias detected were premature atrial contractions, premature ventricular contractions, atrial tachycardia and nonsustained ventricular tachycardia.
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IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science Executive Director Murray Aitken discusses his organization's recent report on digital health trends in 2021.
Their integrated offering allows hospitals to conduct remote patient monitoring with limited clinical resources.