by Jordana Choucair | Dec 19, 2022 | Health IT, Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
Senators Roger Marshall and Jeanne Shaheen plan to introduce legislation that will require social media companies to report fentanyl activity to law enforcement. The legislation would add to House Republicans’ strategy to increase oversight of tech...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 14, 2022 | Health IT
A joint investigation of 50 direct-to-consumer telehealth companies, conducted by STAT and The Markup, revealed that many were leaking sensitive medical information they collect to the world’s largest advertising platforms. Thirteen of the 50 websites had at least one...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 8, 2022 | Health IT
Amazon has ended its support for its HIPAA-compliant Alexa health tool and will delete all of the data by the end of the week. Amazon rolled out the tools on Alexa in 2019, offering applications with a collection of hospitals, as well as telehealth company Teladoc...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2022 | Health IT
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a new genomics service, called Amazon Omics, to run IT-heavy bioinformatics workflows for health care and life sciences companies. AWS built the service to help bioinformaticians, researchers, and scientists store, analyze, and...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2022 | Health IT
General Electric Co. set the terms for the spinoff of its health care division, putting an initial value of roughly $31 billion on the soon-to-be-public company. The separation is set for January 3 after the markets close. Following the health care spinoff, it plans...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 16, 2022 | Health IT
General Catalyst announced new partnerships with 10 health systems across the country, adding to its existing digital health ecosystem with five health systems. General Catalyst will serve as a “think tank” to these 15 organizations and give them access to companies...
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