The Peterson Center on Healthcare, a nonprofit that partners with providers and academic institutions with the goal of improving healthcare, launched the Peterson Health Technology Institute with a $50 million commitment to studying digital health tools.
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WakeMed is using digital tools to fight the staffing crisis as it focuses on investing in "people, people and more people," Carolyn Knaup, RN, senior vice president of strategic ventures and ambulatory operations, told Becker's.
The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order to prohibit digital behavioral health company BetterHelp from sharing consumer data for advertising and pay $7.8 million.
This week in the digital health market, a nursing staffing platform laid off workers and a drug discovery platform received big backing from the former Johnson & Johnson CEO.
Accessing healthcare digitally hasn't improved as much as patients and providers would like, so the American Hospital Association has formulated four recommendations for making it easier.
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The first half of 2023 averaged just 12 digital health startup acquisitions per month, down from 15 a month in 2022 and 14 monthly over the past five years, Rock Health found.
At Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center, patients can now self-register in the emergency department via their mobile devices or through the health system's patient portal.
IntelyCare has laid off at least 30 employees, BostInno reported July 11, becoming the third gig-nursing platform to reduce its workforce in recent weeks.
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health is installing Prolucent Health's workforce and vendor management software VMS+.
Monterey, Calif.-based Montage Health is installing Xealth, a digital health platform spun out of Renton, Wash.-based Providence.