MedCity News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The post The Future of Training: How Virtual Reality Can Protect Clinicians from Healthcare-associated Infections appeared first on MedCity News. The technology also heightens users’ senses, drawing their attention to things they would be unable to see in traditional learning environments.

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MedCity News

APRIL 30, 2024

The Drug Enforcement Agency’s decision to reclassify cannabis to a Schedule III drug could mark the first step in a long process to establish a new normal for medical cannabis care. The post Momentum is Building to Put Medical Cannabis into Mainstream Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.

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MedCity News

MARCH 9, 2025

This can empower healthcare providers to be better diagnosticians and improve overall patient care, particularly for those at risk. The post Navigating Diagnostic Deserts: How Portable Ultrasound is Improving Maternal Healthcare in Africa appeared first on MedCity News.

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MedCity News

MARCH 12, 2025

Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News. The answer was an unequivocal no: the health insurers contracted rate required me to purchase the brace from the hospital as part of the procedure. The post A 2,100% Markup: My Battle with a Vastly Overpriced Knee Brace and U.S.

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MedCity News

JUNE 24, 2024

Healthcare organizations must ensure that every solution incorporated into the connected ecosystem is designed and tested to validate that it is secure, compliant, and performs as expected. The post Connected Healthcare: Solving the Challenges with Medical Devices appeared first on MedCity News.

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Infuse Medical

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In todays rapidly advancing healthcare landscape, the demands placed on medical professionals are greater than ever. With new medical devices, surgical techniques, and treatment protocols emerging constantly, the need for effective, efficient, and scalable training methods has become paramount. billion by 2025.

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MedCity News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Ambience Healthcare’s new product, AutoScribe, embeds into the electronic medical record and works in real-time. Immediately after the visit, the physician gets a draft of the medical notes from the meeting, and then they can edit the notes if needed.

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MedCity News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

To realize true, sustainable savings in total cost of care, the healthcare system needs to reconsider the support — or lack of support — it provides throughout patients’ medication experiences and the snowball effect that creates on a lifetime of healthcare costs.

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MedCity News

MARCH 26, 2025

The post Marketings Untapped Opportunity in the Medical Product Lifecycle appeared first on MedCity News. If marketings participation isn’t already incorporated into a company’s official product development process, theyre missing the boat.

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MedCity News

MAY 16, 2024

The dangers of polypharmacy and its increasingly wide reach across the American population make it imperative that we enhance the accuracy and efficiency of medication reconciliation processes. Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News. The post It’s Past Time to Prevent Polypharmacy in U.S.

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MedCity News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Google introduced a new suite of healthcare-focused generative AI models designed to speed up workflows for clinicians and medical researchers. Health systems and medical research organizations, including HCA Healthcare and BenchSci, have been testing these models since April.

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Impetus Digital

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Pharma-exclusive Webinar: The 2025 Pharma Toolkit for Virtual Medical Education About the webinar Step into the future of medical education with our exclusive webinar series from February 25-26, designed specifically for Pharma leaders. Secure your front-row seat to the future of medical education and training.

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MedCity News

MAY 27, 2024

If Medicare acts, the potential of AI-enabled technologies to improve healthcare outcomes for patients, regardless of their geographic location or socioeconomic status, will be closer to being fully realized. The post Making Access to AI-enabled Medical Devices Equitable for All appeared first on MedCity News.

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MedCity News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The problem with the US healthcare system is one of misaligned incentives. All prescribers want the best outcomes for their patients, but the system does not incentivize choosing the best medications to promote those outcomes. Instead it is incentivized to pay for only the medications prescribed.

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MedCity News

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

As multi-billion investment continues to pour into the R&D of future obesity medications, the need for evidence generation of health benefits beyond short-term weight loss will be critical to the decision-making of healthcare providers and payers. appeared first on MedCity News.

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MedCity News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The ultimate challenge for the broader adoption of AI in medical imaging remains the same: demonstrating to healthcare institutions that it provides a clear ROI.

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MedCity News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst released a paper this week showing that large language models tend to hallucinate quite a bit when producing medical summaries. The post How Often Do LLMs Hallucinate When Producing Medical Summaries? appeared first on MedCity News.

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MedCity News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Now, more than ever, healthcare organizations must strive to innovate to ensure continuous patient care delivery while keeping medical staff safe. The post Healthcare Organizations Can, and Should, Provide Continuous Patient Carewith the Right Technology appeared first on MedCity News.

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MedCity News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

To protect healthcare organizations and minimize the risk of breaches, software development companies must stay vigilant regarding the biggest vulnerability of any digital system: the users. Here are some ways to minimize irresponsible digital behavior and some tools to enhance the security of medical digital systems.

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MedCity News

AUGUST 2, 2024

While the approach to patient and treatment safety is crucial, there is a notable shift towards processes centered around patients and healthcare professionals. The post Beyond Engineering: Integrating UX for Safer and More Efficient Medical Products appeared first on MedCity News.

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MedCity News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In this month’s episode, Senior Reporter Katie Adams explored some of the executive moves, exits and layoffs that recently occurred in the healthcare sector. She also interviewed Dr. Jayne Morgan, who recently became vice president of medical affairs at Hello Heart.

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MedCity News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

New research shows that there are more than 14,000 unique IP addresses across the globe exposing patients’ potentially sensitive medical information on the public internet. The post Nearly 7,000 US Healthcare Devices & Records Are Exposed to the Public Internet, Research Shows appeared first on MedCity News.

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MedCity News

JULY 2, 2023

New research predicts that healthcare costs will increase by 7% next year. The estimate is higher than the projected medical cost trends in 2022 and 2023 — which were 5.5% and 6.0%, respectively.

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MedCity News

AUGUST 30, 2024

In this month’s episode, Senior Reporter Katie Adams explored some of the executive moves and layoffs that recently occurred in the healthcare world. She also interviewed Graham Barnes, who just stepped into a new role as the CEO of Medically Home.

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MedCity News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Read about news from Carrum Health, New Enterprise Associates, American Medical Women’s Association, and Iaso Therapeutics.

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MedCity News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Medical chatbots have the potential to shape the future of healthcare data retrieval and decision-making support. But this can’t become a reality unless precautions are taken to make sure the answers are both grounded in reality and extracted from reliable sources.

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MedCity News

APRIL 11, 2023

Clinical-grade NLP is in the earlier stages of adoption, but as healthcare organizations continue to struggle with unstructured data and clinician burnout, we will see a gradual increase in its use. The AI and deep learning models being developed today in conjunction with medical NLP will be used in healthcare five, 10 and 20 years from now.

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MedCity News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A transformation is underway in medical coding as automation permeates revenue cycle management, raising questions such as: How will automation affect how medical coders work? How advanced is coding automation currently? What kind of skill sets will be needed for these new types of coding?

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MedCity News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Health aid from the private US healthcare community to Ukraine is stalling. To re-engage and do more we should take a bottom-up and people-centric approach to aid and focus on long term needs.

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MedCity News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Flexible, portable medical diagnostic devices are the future, augmenting equity and access to quality healthcare. That means designing for patients as well as caregivers, creating devices that are intuitive, easy to use, and easily adaptable to various environments.

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MedCity News

JANUARY 24, 2024

It’s not just universities and medical students that are embracing VR technology for learning. I travel all over the world to work with healthcare teams implementing VR and have observed, that a growing number of hospitals are using it for continuing education.

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MedCity News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This article explores the benefits of implementing RFID in healthcare settings and how hospitals can gradually transition from barcode to RFID-enabled medication systems, leading to substantial cost savings and improved patient care.

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MedCity News

AUGUST 30, 2024

Here is a selection of recent executive hires, retirements, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry. The post Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs appeared first on MedCity News.

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MedCity News

MARCH 7, 2023

One healthcare AI expert thinks ChatGPT could have dangerous implications for the field if it’s not used with the proper context.

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MedCity News

JUNE 29, 2022

Mona Flores, Global Head of Medical AI at Nvidia, will deliver the keynote talk kicking off the MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference, scheduled for Wednesday, September 28, in Dallas and presented in collaboration with Health Wildcatters. Register today.

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InCrowd

APRIL 7, 2025

As healthcare professionals, we know firsthand how demanding and rewarding our careers can be. Its an easy and flexible way to supplement your earnings while contributing to important healthcare research. InCrowd specializes in short, paid surveys designed for healthcare professionals. Thats the benefit of InCrowd surveys.

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MedCity News

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Healthcare has traditionally been built around the convenience of the provider and not the patient. If we want to improve medication compliance, we have to make access, support, and most importantly financial assistance a priority. Worse, it tends to treat all patients the same regardless of the condition they are trying to manage.

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