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A number of healthcare companies were designated among Glassdoor’s 100 “Best Places to Work” list for 2021. 

 

Google Cloud has launched three new healthcare accelerators, partnering up with health systems, to address common use cases around health equity, patient flow and value-based care.

Cutting down on administrative costs in the U.S. healthcare industry has become a major focus over the last several years, with billions of dollars in savings to be had from automation and centralizing claims records.

COVID-19 vaccines help reduce the serious coronavirus infections and hospitalizations. Multiple studies have shown that the risk from very rare vaccine side effects are far outweighed by the much greater risk of hospitalization and death due to COVID infections.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given emergency use authorization to Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, sending into circulation the first such medicine requiring just one shot.

Computer Vision

A survey of ICU doctors and nurses at Mayo Clinic reveals widespread concern over lawsuits connected to the proposed use of video recording and video recognition with computer vision.

Special needs child

If verified in additional trials, the advance will facilitate care planning much earlier than the current average age of diagnosis, 4 years old.

Two Way

The state has set the bar for regional health networks facing similar threats around the country.

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The approval, made as part of a special FDA pilot program, took just 50 days.