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A blockchain startup headquartered in the British Virgin Islands is organizing a global, healthcare-specific online hackathon with a prize pool of 15,000 euros, or around $17,500.

Contract

The COVID crisis is affecting U.S. healthcare even at the level of high finance, suppressing merger and acquisition activity in the provider sector by almost 20% in 2020’s second quarter versus its first.

Smartphone

Whatever name it takes when it goes down in history, the present “information age” will be inextricably linked to AI. It’s been so since around 2008, although popular perception needed time to catch up with the depth of the development.

Leadership. Healthcare CEO turnover surged in the final months of 2022, indicating that the disruptive labor challenges that have defined this year may not be over.

Nearly 90% of executives leading medical-technology companies see emerging technologies as a top challenge. And they’re struggling to apply these advances not only to their product and service lines but also to their own business operations.

AI, the group wrote, could "usurp the EHR as the most disappointing application of technology within medicine”

Stressed

As the “panic-demic” descended on the U.S. and Canada in March and April, older adults (ages 60 and up) coped better with the stress than both young adults (18–39 years old) and middle agers (40–59).

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