The global precision medicine market is expected to grow rapidly through 2026, according to a report by BIS Research.
Digital Health
A critical care physician at Pittsburgh–based UPMC developed a video game to help emergency medicine physicians improve trauma triage skills in a low pressure environment, according to a WESA report.
Google plans to build three new submarine cables to plug into new regions around the world, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Cigna acquired Brighter, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based software-as-a-service digital health plan platform, Dec. 14.
Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health provided 25 iPads to local EMS providers to transmit injury assessments and accident scene information to the emergency room before arriving at the hospital, according to The Intelligencer.
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University Hospitals Richmond Medical Center in Richmond Heights, Ohio, opened a fast track emergency room to improve care efficiency, according to cleveland.com.
Several emergency departments are taking action to improve patient care access and efficiency, from programs that focus on health inequity in emergency rooms to engineering tools that improve wait times.
Fort Worth-based Texas Health Alliance opened its expanded emergency department, the first phase of a two-part, $25 million project that will double the ED's size, according to a D Magazine report.
UW Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Children's, all based in Seattle, will use a $50 million gift to establish the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine in Seattle. The gift comes from the late Jeffrey Brotman, and…
Dispensation of single-day doses of the anti-addiction drug buprenorphine can reduce illicit opioid use among patients waiting to see a physician certified in addiction treatment, according to a study presented at the 2017 American College of Neuropsychopharmacology meeting in Palm…