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The Federal Bureau of Prisons is working with Bicycle Health to give individuals released from prison continued access to monthly injections of buprenorphine for opioid use disorder. Bicycle Health CEO Ankit Gupta offers a deep dive.  

The nursing-oriented remote patient monitoring approach also prevents more than 500 falls each month at the Minnesota health system. And it's improved staffing ratios – sometimes dramatically, depending on patient acuity.

Amazon Web Services has increased the total funding of the AWS Health Equity Initiative to $60 million and added a new funding area that seeks to address social determinants of health and climate change factors.

Employees of Maven will have access to WellTheory's platform for individuals with autoimmune diseases, including a collaborative care team and ongoing guidance.  

The FDA-cleared tool can help at-risk provider organizations reduce costs while improving patient outcomes through earlier lifestyle and treatment interventions, its inventors say.

Dr. Renee Dua, founder of Together by Renee, a healthcare assistant app that uses generative artificial intelligence, also offers an in-depth look at how the AI in her app can help patients and their caregivers.

Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health, previews her HIMSS24 session, where she will explore ways in which Henry Ford and other health systems have addressed equity gaps and overcome barriers.

ARPA-H is launching a program to deliver acute care in rural settings via a multipurpose delivery platform "that is as convenient as telehealth."

"From a patient safety perspective, this was a very important milestone for us to achieve to ensure that we are providing the highest level of care to one of our most vulnerable patient populations," the health system's chief nurse executive says.

As workforces shrink, here’s how hospitals can cut costs while still improving patient outcomes.