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“The Future Is Bright” With Opportunities to Grow: BioAlberta’s State of the Industry Reports on Alberta’s Life Sciences and Healthcare Industry

Digital Health Global

The life sciences industry continues to innovate, providing diagnostics, therapeutics, and treatments to support the population through the COVID-19 pandemic. More than one in three surveyed companies was founded since 2019, and 82.3% More than one in three surveyed companies was founded since 2019, and 82.3%

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TeleMedicine, Interoperability and AI: DataArt predicts 2019 Healthcare and Life Sciences trends

Lloyd Price

DataArt , a global technology consultancy, predicts that 2019 will be dominated by one major trend – exponential information growth, which stems from the population increase and motivates data scientists to improve algorithms, making them faster and more accurate. AI will be increasingly tapped, visionaries will be needed.

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FundamentalVR Raises $20 Million To Accelerate The Growth Of Its Surgical Simulation Platform

Healthcare IT Today

The transaction was led by EQT Life Sciences investing from the LSP Health Economics Fund 2 and joined by prior investors Downing Ventures. The new investments follow a Series A round in October 2019 and bring the company’s total funding to over $30 million. About EQT Life Sciences. About FundamentalVR.

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Language Barriers: Protecting Your Organization From A Hidden HIPAA Threat

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Bill Young, Director of Healthcare & Life Sciences at SYSTRAN Keeping patient data confidential and secure remains a major healthcare challenge today, more than 25 years after the introduction of the 1996 Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act or HIPAA.

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

to approve Medicare’s negotiation of drug prices with pharmaceutical companies]. Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019. Consumer health’s fall from 63% in 2019 to 51% in 2020. health citizens’ memories will last into 2022 with respect to cross-party desire for the U.S.

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Will Consumers Cross the Cost-and-Trust Chasm Between Prescription Drugs and Hospitals?

Health Populi

rank prescription drugs, lab tests, emergency room visits, dental and vision care, preventive services, chronic disease management and mental health care as the “most essential” health care services, according to the 2019 Survey of America’s Patients conducted by The Physicians Foundation. People in the U.S.

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Like banks, healthcare will become digital-first in 2022, Zoom healthcare lead says

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

He sees three major developments: healthcare will become a digital-first system; decentralization will become a major theme for health and life sciences organizations; and video will be part of every healthcare experience. You predict that decentralization will become a major theme for health and life science organizations.