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Startup Forum secures $5.3M to build out digital peer support group marketplace

Fierce Healthcare

Peer support groups can help people navigate major life challenges and get needed support to manage grief, address loneliness or even guide them through a career change. | New startup Forum offers a two-sided virtual peer support group marketplace to help individuals find the support they need. The marketplace has a rapidly expanding list of groups that cover topics like grief, loneliness, chronic conditions, substance use recovery and caregiving.

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Monday Morning Update 11/27/23

HIStalk

Top News The Department of Defense completes the last of.

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Flywheel’s AI Platform Takes Flight with Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Flywheel , a medical imaging artificial intelligence (AI) d evelopment platform, today announced the launch of its software-as-a-service (SaaS) data management solution on Microsoft Azure. This new SaaS offering will provide healthcare organizations with a secure, scalable, and user-friendly platform to manage, curate, and analyze their medical imaging data.

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Why does the UK pay less for medicines?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

According to the OECD , In 2021 the U.S. spent $1,432/capita on pharmaceuticals compared to only $517/per capita in the UK. The UK’s figure was slightly higher that Poland and Norway, but less than Latvia, the Slovak Republic, Portugal and Romania. How does the UK spend so little on drugs? Many people focus on the efforts of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and their focus on linking drug prices paid to health value delivered.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Protecting pregnancy in clinical trials poses risks

Healthy Debate

Typically excluded from clinical trials, better representation of pregnant people in research will promote maternal and fetal well-being.

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Morning Headlines 11/27/23

HIStalk

DOD’s EHR Deployment Nearly Complete The Department of Defense completes.

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