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Microsoft is making a strategic investment in Paige, which is leveraging AI for cancer diagnostics and treatment. Paige will also use Microsoft Azure as its cloud provider for the Paige Platform.

Xofluza, a flu antiviral drug developed by Roche and Shionogi, is now approved in Europe for children age 1 and older. The European Commission decision expands the patient population for the drug, which was previously approved for treating adolescents and adults.

LeanTaaS acquired healthcare automation company Hospital IQ. The two companies made the deal because their products complement each other — Hospital IQ provides staff optimization solutions, while LeanTaaS makes software to optimize capacity for operating rooms, infusion centers and inpatient beds.

About 98% of healthcare companies have a health equity strategy, but nearly 60% initiated the strategy in just the last five years and 34% created it during the Covid-19 pandemic, the EY report shows.

The in-home service is meant to complement the company's virtual care. Members are able to book appointments within one to two business days and receive in-person assessments of their mobility, as well as any fall hazards in their home.

CVS Health announced investments this week in Carbon Health, Monogram Health and Array Behavioral Care. There have also been rumors that the company is exploring a $10 billion deal with primary care company Oak Street Health.

Boston Consulting Group hosted a panel during the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in which Merck'c chief strategy officer, a healthcare leader from Goldman Sachs, an investment executive and a senior medical devices executive from Medtronic weighed in on trends the life sciences industry can expect to see in 2023.

Workers at the largest for-profit health system in the country, HCA Healthcare, have planned a rally for Thursday. The goal of the rally is to show HCA that its workers know how profitable the company is and that they won’t be able to tolerate poor staffing levels for much longer.

Sara Vaezy, Providence’s chief strategy and digital officer, thinks the definition of an integrated delivery system is going to change. In her view, health systems will be more successful if they let go of the notion that they can do it all.

The FDA approved Airsupra, an asthma rescue inhaler that administers two different medications, one that opens up airways and another that treats inflammation. The inhaler stems from a partnership between AstraZeneca and Avillion.