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The program aims to improve work environments for nurses and remove the stigma associated with asking for mental health care. The curriculum will focus on ways to identify and reduce stress before it escalates. While it will help all nurses, the program is especially geared toward nurses of color and those under the age of 35.

Health system leaders believe that improving patient access should be their top priority when strategically planning for 2023, according to a new report from the KLAS Research and UPMC’s Center for Connected Medicine. To improve patient access, respondents agreed that their health systems will need to make changes in three key areas — people, process and technology.

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.