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News 4/17/23
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Calibrate Health lays off 18% of its workforce as it pivots from a direct-to-consumer online obesity drug prescriber to a telemedicine company that offers its weight-loss services to employers. The company has raised nearly $128 million since launching in 2020.
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Stephen Canon, MD and his wife Honor Canon, MD launch Vamio Health, a virtual care service designed to help children and their families manage chronic bedwetting.
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EClinicalWorks announces that it will integrate ChatGPT, cognitive services, and machine learning models from Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service with its EHR and practice management technologies.
The Heart & Vascular Institute (MI) selects remote patient monitoring technology and services from HBox Virtual Care.
Major Health Partners (IL) will implement social services referral software from Unite Us across its numerous facilities in Shelbyville.
True Health Family Medicine (AZ) will implement EHR and patient engagement software from EClinicalWorks.
Canary Telehealth will use virtual care software and services from GenieMD as part of its population health management and care coordination programs.
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The new landlord of a building in Dewey, OK, that once housed a doctor’s office discovers hundreds of baby pictures left by the physician, who died in 2009. The photos, dated between 1956 and 1982, document the hundreds of babies delivered over the doctor’s 50-year career. The landlord is working with the local history museum to post the photos online so that residents can request to have them returned.
In Florida, a former nurse pleads guilty to tampering with a consumer product after it was discovered she had replaced nearly 450 vials of fentanyl with saline solution, which were then used during outpatient surgical procedures. Surveillance footage also shows the nurse injecting herself with the narcotic.
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