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DexCare is sponsoring a webinar May 19 highlighting how it's taking lessons learned from online retailers to boost traffic and applies them to their healthcare customers. To learn more, register today.

MedCity News connected with Integra Connect's COO, Cory Wiegert at ViVE 2023 to discuss how their new platform will go beyond the "one size fits all" approach to data curation.

The FDA will decide this summer which strains the next Covid-19 vaccines should address. But companies are also taking a longer view, developing shots for the future that offer different features than the current ones and potentially broader protection against a wider range of pathogens.

Mae’s services will be a covered benefit for Aetna Better Health Medicaid members through a new pilot program. These services include access to a culturally-competent doula and an engagement platform that provides weekly check-ins and tools to support maternal health.

Eli Lilly is selling to Amphastar Pharmaceuticals global rights to Baqsimi, an emergency treatment for severe hypoglycemia in diabetes patients. The deal come as Lilly turns its focus to novel medicines for diabetes and other indications.

A clinical trial for a Foghorn Therapeutics cancer drug is under a partial FDA hold after a patient in the early-stage study developed a cardiovascular complication. It’s the biotech’s second partial hold in the past year.

Eden Health will join Hint Health’s Hint Connect platform, which is a network of independent direct primary care clinics. Through the partnership, employees of Hint Connect’s employer customers will be able to choose whether they want to receive care from a local DPC provider in their area (either in-person or virtually) or a virtual provider through Eden Health.

The healthcare sector has been notoriously slow to adopt new technologies in the past, but Chat-GPT has already begun to enter the field. Technology experts at the HIMSS conference in Chicago said that while the AI model is certainly exciting, the healthcare sector must establish an accountability framework for it's going to address the risks of new technologies like ChatGPT moving forward.

Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Chair Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) introduced a bipartisan framework that lays out the key challenges federal prescription drug programs are dealing with, as well as potential solutions.

The biggest rounds of recent biotech financings are from startups raising money to advance their research to the clinic. Here’s a look back at funding rounds from companies such as Abdera Therapeutics, Complement Therapeutics, and Enveda Biosciences.