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The lawsuit is one of nine cases throughout the country that TeamHealth has brought against United for alleged underpayments. The other eight cases are still ongoing. 

Lumen sells a handheld device that measures users’ metabolism through breath and connects to an app that helps track goals and provides nutrition coaching. The funding round was led by Pitango Venture Capital, and included participation from Hanwha Group and Resolute Ventures.

Medical software company Cerner must head to trial for a jury to decide whether its software contained design defects that caused brain damage to a 25-year-old who was undergoing surgery to remove his gallbladder. 

The innovation institute run by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill teamed up with Amazon Web Services to create a venture studio to turn the university’s digital health research concepts into full-fledged startups. AWS’ platform beat out the other major cloud providers because it was “the most entrepreneurial,” according to the venture studio’s managing director.

UpStream — a company that provides technology and services for physicians enrolled in value-based care models — raised $140 million in Series B funding. The company doesn’t charge providers to use its services. It has negotiated rates with Medicare programs and takes on both upside and downside risk — but physicians “only see the upside” because they get paid by UpStream no matter what, according to CEO Sanjay Doddamani.

An AHIP survey found that 73% of commercially-insured telehealth users think that Congress should make telehealth provisions permanent. These provisions were put in place to meet Americans' needs during Covid-19.

Check out new developments from Medvantx, Medisafe, Medical Informatics Corp., Journey Biosciences, and GSR Ventures.

From streamlining long-held manual processes to creating entirely new diagnostic devices, new tech is cropping up all over the medtech industry—resulting in a real-world impact on patients' quality of life.

FDA's draft guidances on real-world data do not provide strict requirements for industry stakeholders to abide by, but they offer patient advocacy organizations with a clearer understanding of how to model their registries to have a more substantial impact for their patient communities.

Many of the efforts to address healthcare's burnout crisis have centered on money, such as hiring and retention bonuses, but that isn’t sustainable. Providers don’t have the means to keep throwing money at the problem forever, so they should focus more on creating a workplace culture where employees feel valued and supported.