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Providers, tech companies to advocate for expanding clinical care at home
A group of healthcare stakeholders Amazon Care, Intermountain Healthcare and Ascension, to name a few has created an alliance to advocate for home-based care services through policy changes.
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Demand for home care accelerated during the Covid-19 pandemic, and though regulations were passed to support this shift, they remain temporary.
A group of providers, technology firms and home healthcare companies have joined forces to establish an alliance that aims to make those changes permanent. Launched on Wednesday, the founding members include Amazon Care, Signify Health, DispatchHealth, Intermountain Healthcare and Ascension.
My advice to surgeons-in-training during Covid-19
Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of being involved in the education of hundreds […]
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Throughout my career, I’ve had the privilege of being involved in the education of hundreds of surgeons-in-training and I’ve seen how medical education has slowly evolved over time. Right now, however, the pandemic is triggering radical shifts in the delivery of medical education. In this article, I offer advice to surgeons-in-training as they navigate uncharted waters stemming from Covid-19.
Get the most out of virtual learning
Over the past months, it’s become apparent that virtual classrooms work well in some instances. Online learning can be highly effective for general course delivery, discussion groups, and study groups. It also allows participants to start, stop, and rewind as needed, which can be helpful when tackling large volumes of information. There are some serious shortcomings, however.
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This week, read new developments at Carrum Health, Seven Bridges, CARISMA Therapeutics, and more.
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Seven Bridges recently announced the formation of its strategic advisory board tasked with advising Seven Bridges leadership team in its mission to accelerate scientific discovery and speed the path from raw experimental data to new treatments and diagnostics. The appointment of three leaders with significant experience in healthcare and artificial intelligence will aid the company exploring new health-focused opportunities and bolster the company’s work with biopharmaceutical and academic researchers to significantly decrease the time, cost, and risk in the discovery-through-
commercialization cycle for novel precision medicines and therapies.
Several California counties and Washington state dropped One Medical as a partner in distributing vaccines after reports that it let people who weren’t eligible for the vaccine jump the line. A House panel is also launching an investigation into the company’s practices.
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