Pharmacy
NVIDIA Healthcare this week announced integration with Amazon Web Services for NIM, its suite of microservices designed to empower foundational models in the realms of drug discovery, medical imaging and genomics.
Testifying before Congress on Wednesday, UnitedHeath Group CEO Andrew Witty promised that his company has stepped up its cybersecurity efforts after the massive and far-reaching ransomware attack, and pledged to underwrite providers' cashflows as needed.
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People respond differently to medications. Prescribing could be optimised through pharmacogenomic testing, which could reduce medication waste, notes Clinical Innovation Lead for the University of Manchester Videha Sharma.
Also, Reperio Health partners with Uber to bring preventive care screening kits to homes and workplaces.
Through volunteer work after the 2020 Beirut explosion, Marina El Khawand, founder and president of Medonations, describes how getting a patient in dire need of her inhaler evolved into starting an NGO that crowdsources medications for Lebanese patients.
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The health system's savings have come from the platform's ability to conduct preferred product swaps, identify contract discrepancies and local contract savings, and swiftly assess shortage impacts then devise mitigation strategies.
Project Asclepius aims to modernize meds processes that are too often still manual, say leaders from Cleveland Clinic London and other organizations working to help providers streamline their pharmacies to boost patient safety and gain cost efficiencies.
An American Hospital Association report, sponsored by Amazon Business, found 60% of respondents experience drug shortages. Bill Kopitke, head of healthcare at Amazon Business, offers more perspective.
With AI-powered pharmaco-clinical intelligence, the not-for-profit health system aims to identify and monitor high-risk polypharmacy patients and recommend clinical Interventions.
Citing compliance strains on providers and others, and the need to maintain patient care continuity, more than 200 virtual care stakeholders urged the agency to release its regulatory scheme for the prescribing of controlled substances through telehealth.