Alabama, North Dakota and South Carolina were the first states to announce plans to develop contact tracing apps that would use a framework developed by Apple and Google. Apple and Google launched their exposure notification API on Wednesday.
CHIP has had a dramatic effect in lower income states like Alabama, where the childhood uninsured rate dropped from 20 percent in 1997 to under 3 percent in 2015.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Is all publicity good publicity? Alabama biotech may soon find out. The local industry struggled to gain visibility and interest from investors on either coast — until the rise and fall of Roy Moore put it on the map.
Most of the digital health companies in the latest cohort have business-to-business payment models across clinical decision support and physician practice management.
Inova Health System and ContinuumRX have formed a joint venture focused on continuity of care. The JV will give patients home infusion and specialty pharmacy services.
Sullivan, Illinois-based Healthcom on Monday announced a deal with Turenne PharMedCo, a medical supplier to long-term care industry in the Southeast, to provide wearable devices linking patients recently discharged from the hospital with their caregivers.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
The $250 million deal gives EHR vendor CPSI an entrée into the post-acute health IT market because Healthland Holdings owns American HealthTech.
Alabama startup CirculoGene Theranostics has released a new liquid biopsy test for cancer monitoring - but will it stick?
Even if you’re trying, it’s tough to keep score on what’s happening with various lawsuits challenging some state abortion laws. States led by anti-abortion governors and legislatures have been passing a broad array of measures over the past few years aimed at making the procedure more difficult for women to obtain. About two dozen states […]
Technology that was initially meant to help soldiers and unmanned vehicles navigate uncharted territory is finding new life in a high-tech navigation device for people with impaired vision. Draper Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and development lab based in Cambridge, has partnered up with researchers at Alabama-based Auburn University to design a new navigation device that […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
The FDA could spend up to $182,000 over the next four years on its social media plans. The money goes to IB5k, which helped President Obama with his first campaign for the White House, as well as doing some work for leading Republicans, according to Politico. Overall, according to the RFQ, the job involves: By […]
In Alabama, if you get your health insurance through your employer and you lose your job, you quickly realize there aren't a lot options for purchasing coverage on your own. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama has had a virtual monopoly in the state ...
A drug for Parkinson’s disease that could ease some of the complications associated with current dopamine replacement therapies could reach clinical trials next year. Serina Therapeutics’ platform technology is based on the polymer polyoxazoline (POZ), which the company is pairing with rotigotine (a dopamine agonist also used UCB’s FDA-approved Neupro patch) to create a once-weekly […]
A telemedicine startup has launched an interactive software tool that could help hospitals to increase the number of surgical procedures they perform. It’s raised more than half of the $1.2 million it’s seeking, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Vipaar, a Birmingham, Alabama-based company, uses technology licensed from University of Alabama […]
A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company is testing a new targeted cancer treatment based on the notion that solid tumors can be compelled to develop their own chemotherapy and self-destruct. In PNP Therapeutics Inc.’s platform technology, an E. coli purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) gene injected directly into a tumor produces enzymes that interact with a circulating prodrug, […]