Consumer

Healthcare provider holding a tablet while wearing a lab coat and stethoscope
By  Jessica Hagen 05:39 pm August 10, 2023
Telehealth and medical transportation company DocGo has come under fire from Albany County, New York, officials for allegedly failing to provide healthcare and basic services to migrants per a $432 million contract New York City awarded the company in early May. The allegations, first reported by The New York Times, surround the influx of migrants to New York City and a no-bid contract awarded to...
Healthcare provider wearing a lab coat with a stethoscope around their neck and looking at a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 12:03 pm August 10, 2023
Elation Health, which supplies tools for telehealth and patient engagement, and an EHR geared toward primary care providers, announced it's partnering with Suvida Healthcare, a primary care group for Medicare-eligible Hispanic adults.  California-based Elation Health offers healthcare providers tools to help digitize their practice, including cloud-based clinical-based electronic health records,...
Kakao Healthcare CEO Hwang Hee and Novo Nordisk President Sacha Semienchuk during the MOU signing
By  Adam Ang 02:51 am August 10, 2023
Kakao Healthcare, the digital healthcare business of South Korean internet company Kakao Corporation, has partnered with Novo Nordisk to further develop its diabetes management service powered by mobile and AI technologies. The two organisations recently signed a memorandum of understanding to launch a smart healthcare service to support patients with diabetes. According to a press release, Kakao...
Healthcare provider standing over a patient sitting down while showing them a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 12:05 pm August 8, 2023
Maven Clinic, which offers virtual care geared toward women and families, announced it is partnering with Amazon to provide the retail giant's employees access to its fertility and family-building support services. The New York-based digital reproductive health and family platform offers fertility and family planning services, pregnancy and postpartum care, and parenting and pediatric support....
Mike Miliard, Executive Editor of Healthcare IT News; Hal Wolf, president and CEO of HIMSS; and Ken McAvoy, president of South Florida Ventures at Informa Markets
By  Jessica Hagen 02:16 pm August 3, 2023
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and exhibition organizer Informa Markets announced the pair had signed an agreement for Informa to take over management of the HIMSS Health Global Conference & Exhibition, with HIMSS continuing to oversee expert content and event programming.  HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition drew over 40,000 healthcare and technology...
Four people in a room with two of them shaking hands while the other two watch
By  Jessica Hagen 04:45 pm August 2, 2023
Duke Health and Microsoft announced a five-year partnership to examine the potential of generative AI and cloud technology to improve healthcare, and to create the Duke Health AI Innovation Lab and Center of Excellence.  Microsoft will train Duke to develop a cloud-savvy IT workforce and construct a secure cloud environment. At the same time, Duke will utilize Microsoft's Azure cloud for clinical...
Artificial Intelligence robot and a futuristic data panel background
By  Jessica Hagen 12:24 pm July 31, 2023
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and AI safety and research company Anthropic announced the formation of the Frontier Model Forum, a body that will focus on ensuring the safe and responsible development of large-scale machine learning models that are capable of surpassing the capabilities of current AI models, also known as frontier models.  The partners are looking for organizations to join the Forum...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:08 pm July 28, 2023
The Google Pixel Watch, announced in March, included the addition of fall detection capabilities, which uses sensors to determine if a user has taken a hard fall and then subsequently alerts emergency services upon being prompted by the user or when no response from the user is received.  In part two of our two-part series, Edward Shi, product manager on the personal safety team of Android and...
Three healthcare providers walking through a hall while looking at a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 02:01 pm July 27, 2023
Healthcare insurer Blue Shield of California announced a multi-year cloud development plan with tech giant Microsoft to offer its members an integrated data hub, dubbed the Experience Cube, that runs on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.  The Experience Cube will utilize Azure's analytics and storage capabilities to tie together near real-time member, provider and payer data, aiming to create more...