Covera Health Announces Up to $50M in Additional Series C Funding to Redefine the Role of Radiology Nationwide
Company Expands Industry’s Most Sophisticated AI-Enabled Radiology Performance Platform with Acquisition of CoRead
Covera Health, the leading AI-enabled diagnostic technology company focused on radiology performance measurement and impact, today announced up to $50 million in additional Series C funding led by Insight Partners, of which $25 million is committed today. The company also finalized the acquisition of CoRead, a leading AI quality assurance company currently being used by more than 2,000 hospital sites nationwide. CoRead stands at the forefront of generative AI focused on performance improvement in r...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Aaron Friedkin CoRead Covera Health Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Insight Partners Jeff Horing Lawrence Ngo Ron Vianu Source Type: blogs
Drug prices and fast approvals can harm patients
An excerpt from Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Lies. Few fail to be shocked at the rising prices of some prescription drugs. “Drug companies have raised prices relentlessly for decades while manipulating the patent system and other laws to delay competition from lower-priced generics,” reported the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in December 2021.
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Drug prices and fast approvals can harm patients originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Martha Rosenberg Tags: Meds Medications Source Type: blogs
A bit more on Israel/Palestine
I ' m just going to outsource to Josh Marshall here, this is a bit he shows on his front page so no problem sharing it, although the rest of it is paywalled.In a few recent posts we ’ve discussed the question of whether one
state or two states is the most logical or possible resolution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (You can see my argumenthere.) A few days ago TPM ReaderRC sent me this AprilForeign Affairs article,Israel ’s One-State Reality.
It was written by three scholars at GW and another at the University of
Maryland. The piece was interesting to me because it illustrates a lot
of what the one st...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 23, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Pain medicine realities: beyond the opioid crisis
In 1990, Ronald Melzack published a paper in Scientific American titled “The Tragedy of Needless Pain.” Many would regard Melzack as the “father” of pain science and the treatment of pain. In that paper, he described the science behind several observations that many clinicians and public health policy decision-makers would find startling in today’s hostile and fraught
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Pain medicine realities: beyond the opioid crisis originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Richard A. Lawhern, PhD and Stephen E. Nadeau, MD Tags: Conditions Medications Source Type: blogs
Straw men
I got a few comments on my post about gun safety that I didn ' t publish because they attack a straw man. I explicitly, and loudly, at the very beginning, said that I did not have any problem whatsoever with people owning guns. In fact I ' m all for it because the deer population here is out of control. This is also true of the approximately 80% of Americans who favor gun safety laws that are quite similar to the Swiss laws, which are not generally in effect in the U.S. and which the Supreme Court would probably rule to be unconstitutional. The Swiss ban large capacity magazines, automatic weapons and many non-firearm weap...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 22, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A scientific approach to malpractice defense
There has always been a “fight club” because there have always been medical malpractice lawsuits. They are predicated on complications, either errors of nature or medical errors, and no doctor is immune. In the United States, roughly 85,000 medical malpractice lawsuits are filed per year, and there are 1 million doctors. For any doctor, the
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A scientific approach to malpractice defense originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 21, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Howard Smith, MD Tags: Physician Malpractice Source Type: blogs
TT Capital Partners Announces Investment in Cantata Health Solutions
New Capital Positions Cantata to Accelerate Growth as Behavioral Health Providers Look to Replace Aging EHRs
TT Capital Partners (TTCP) today announced a majority investment in Cantata Health Solutions, a leading provider of healthcare technology solutions for providers of behavioral health, human services, acute care, and post-acute care. Cantata offers a complete platform, including an integrated electronic health records (EHR) system, revenue cycle management (RCM), and a suite of clinical solutions that are fully configurable. Its Arize EHR solution was built for the health and human services market and with the clinic...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 20, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Alan Tillinghast Cantana Cantata Health Solutions David Schwam Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare Growth Partners Healthcare M&A Nixon Peabody LLP Ryan Engle TT Capit Source Type: blogs
Orange, Green, and Red – The Colors of Tribalism
BY MIKE MAGEE
As Thanksgiving Day approaches, let’s give thanks for the study of history, in part because it reminds us that Trumpian words like “vermin” have been used before and serve to alert the human race that we have entered danger zone
One President who understood the power of words more than many others was FDR. When he structured up “a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations…to provide support for farmers, the unemployed, youth and the elderly”, he memorably packaged the plan under the label, “The New Deal.”
Seizing alliteration in 1933, he further ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Declaration of Human Rights March of Dimes Mike Magee Thanksgiving Welfare Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – November 19, 2023 – Critical access hospitals 16% less likely to participate in data exchange, two-thirds of orgs plan to increase AI spending by 25% in the next three years, plus 36 more stories
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News
Three U.S. Representatives have introduced the WEAR IT Act, which would let Americans use money from Flexible Spending Accounts or Health Savings Accounts to pay for devices such as blood glucose and EKG monitors or sleep ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT AccurKardia Aiberry Artisight Availity Avel eCare Azalea Health Bamboo Health BAMF Health BioIntelliSense CentralReach CHIME Fall Forum Circular Doccla Edifecs Equality Health Garrett Goldberg GE Healthcare Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 20th 2023
In this study, we attempted to further explain the role, exact mechanism and target of ICA in treating AD from the ferroptosis perspective. We found that ICA could improve the neurobehavioral, memory, and motor abilities of AD mice. It could lower the ferroptosis level and enhance the resistance to oxidative stress. After inhibition of MDM2, ICA could no longer improve the cognitive ability of AD mice, nor could it further inhibit ferroptosis. Network pharmacological analysis revealed that MDM2 might be the target of ICA action.
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Particulate Air Pollution and Its Effects on the Mechan...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Gunz
It ' s rifle season for deer here in Connecticut, so I ' ve heard at least three or four gunshots today from the woods around my house, two of them followed after a few seconds by another, which would of course be the kill shot. (My property is embedded in state forest, and I ' ve also signed permission for a couple of people to hunt on it.) One thing that these are not, however, is semi-automatic rifle fire. Digby gives a free link to a WaPo article about the effects of AR-15 type weapons, including photos from mass shootings. Many people have chosen not to look at them. It ' s up to you, but the Post is ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 17, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Bridging law and medicine [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! We sit down with Armin Feldman, a medical consultant to attorneys. Join us as Armin shares his valuable insights into the world of medical/legal consulting, where he acts as a bridge between attorneys and treating doctors. Discover how this unique role benefits both legal
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Bridging law and medicine [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 15, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Malpractice Source Type: blogs
Unusual Weapon of a Murder Case - A Case of Fatal Penetrating Chest Trauma
Uruthirapasupathi Mayorathan (University of Jaffna), Sriluxayini Manikkavasakar (Teaching Hospital, Jaffna), Unusual Weapon of a Murder Case - A Case of Fatal Penetrating Chest Trauma (2023): To solve complex forensic cases, medico-legal issues such as cause of death, manner of death,... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 15, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Slow Spread of Off-Label Use for Treatments Shown to Target Mechanisms of Aging
A small number of low-cost and generic drugs have extensive human use and safety data, but also a sizable, compelling body of animal study evidence to suggest a likely modest slowing of aging, e.g. rapamycin, or that demonstrates the ability to target a mechanism of aging to reverse age-related disease, e.g. the dasatinib and quercetin, shown to selectively destroy senescent cells. In the US any drug approved for a given use can also be used off-label to treat other conditions. In principle the drug can be prescribed by any physician in this way. This is legal, though tends to require a slow bootstrapping process of educat...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 14, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Zealous for Wellness: How to Replace Hype with Data
This article begins a series that looks at useful measures of health and how the companies that promote wellness programs demonstrate their success. We’ll see measurements of objective outcomes, patient-reported outcomes, and what payers look for when they can’t get direct evidence of improvements in wellness.
You’ll note, as we survey the wellness solutions and measurements used, that the leading organizations in this space are payers, not clinicians. I’m sure that doctors and nurse practitioners truly care for the overall happiness and wellbeing of their patients. But the institutions aren’t...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring ACOs Avanade Christiana Voelker Cli Source Type: blogs
