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...A consortium of British data companies is taking on US-based Palantir, in the bid for a £480mn NHS contract to build the health service’s operating system....
...don’t necessarily save money for Medicare [the federal health insurance scheme],” said Robert Przybelski, a geriatrician at UW Health in Madison, Wisconsin, where about 25 patients have been treated with...
...’ services....
...She rose up the ranks, going from the assistant who ordered toilet paper to country director for Russia. In 2008, Arno noticed she was being watched....
...But in today’s financialised healthcare system, it’s more likely to be a private equity-owned “physician staffing” company....
...Blackstone acquired hospital staffing supplier Team Health in 2016 and two years later, KKR bought physician services and emergency room operator Envision Healthcare for $9.9bn....
...It can be a struggle to get help even when mental health services are offered as employee benefits, says Grace Chang, co-founder and CEO of Kintsugi, an AI-powered mental health tool....
...In addition, the kind of people needed to staff the vision — district nurses, geriatricians, health coaches, physician assistants, data analysts — haven’t been hired....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 20 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...“For a place with that volume and acuity [medical urgency], it is just not safe not to have multiple attendings supervising the residents and physician assistants.”...
...Amazon’s web services business is highly profitable. The question is about the retail business....
...UnitedHealth’s health services arm Optum last year set out to buy Change Healthcare, a healthcare insurance technology group. UnitedHealth also owns the largest health insurer in the US....
...“I think we’re in for a much bigger problem,” says Clare Rayner, a former consultant occupational physician who had long Covid, who is helping to develop services for sufferers....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 7 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...Uber-style service....
...In the physician consulting rooms at the hospital, Amazon’s technology is also listening intently — with the patient’s full prior consent, the hospital says — for details that can be added to health records...
...physicians by five times....
...Olivier Wouters, assistant professor of health policy at the London School of Economics, questioned whether European regulators would approve the drug “without conclusive evidence” of a “meaningful benefit...
...The service now has roughly 90,000 patients on its books, making it the largest GP “practice” in England....
...At this point, there is still an exception for the life of the mother, but that requires likely three physicians to sign off....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on August 29 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...Craig Garthwaite, professor of hospital and health services at Northwestern University, says it is “terrible” that the FDA has bowed to patient pressure groups and not listened to its scientific advisers...
...“As long as the virus continues to circulate there’s a risk of new variants developing,” said Kawsar Talaat, assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health....
...More recently, he had a short stint as an assistant secretary at the Department of Transportation....
...Service....
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