Pharma

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By  Anthony Vecchione 01:36 pm November 6, 2024
DarioHealth, a digital chronic-condition management platform, announced a collaboration with an unnamed pharma company that will leverage DarioConnect (formerly Twill Care) to advance its direct-to-consumer initiatives using Dario's engagement and navigation technologies. The aim of the alliance is to gather critical insights on patient outcomes and drug effectiveness with Dario Connect's...
Image of patient in hospital with vital-sign-monitoring device
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:16 pm November 1, 2024
Ballad Health, a healthcare system, is using AI-based patient safety company MedAware's AI-powered medication safety monitoring platform to allow real-time personalized risk monitoring for acute care patients. The acute care pharmacy team at Ballad Health is the first to natively employ MedAware within an Epic pharmacy workflow. The two companies have been partners since 2023.  MedAware's...
Pharmacist conducting inventory
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:14 pm October 31, 2024
eNavvi, an online pharmacy founded by physicians, is joining forces with Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC) to allow physicians to prescribe medications directly via eNavvi's digital prescription pad to more than 7,000 independent pharmacies and national grocery pharmacy chains. The aim is to streamline the prescribing process, improve convenience and enhance prescription-price...
Mark Cuban
By  Jessica Hagen 10:34 am October 29, 2024
Mark Cuban says it is vital for government officials to consider and understand the hierarchy when it comes to the prescription drug market and evaluating and setting laws around drug pricing.  "To me, it's all about transparency. In the drug market, and across healthcare, the opacity allows the biggest players to influence pricing and effectively find arbitrage points," Cuban told MobiHealthNews...
Walmart storefront
By  Jessica Hagen 04:29 pm October 22, 2024
Walmart announced that it would now allow customers to purchase new prescription medications, medication refills and general merchandise for same-day delivery in a single order via the Walmart app and through the company's website.  The company says customers will have access to same-day delivery of medications via its Pharmacy Delivery, excluding controlled substances, Medicare Part B items, and...
Lab technician analyzing samples
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:57 pm October 2, 2024
AI biotech company Owkin announced a partnership with pharma giant AstraZeneca to develop an AI-powered tool designed to prescreen for gBRCA mutations (gBRCAm) in breast cancer directly from digitized pathology slides. According to Owkin, BRCA testing, which identifies mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, plays an important role in deciding a person's risk for developing certain cancers,...
Respiree's vital signs monitor and Roche's blood sugar monitoring system
By  Adam Ang 08:40 pm September 22, 2024
Respiree, Roche announces AI integration for RPM Singaporean startup Respiree has tied up with global pharmaceutical and diagnostics company Roche for technology integration. Respiree will be combining its vital sign monitoring device with Roche's blood glucose device as a joint bedside offering. The solution is also expected to be integrated with machine learning models that predict clinical...
Clinician consulting with colleagues
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:04 pm September 10, 2024
Pharmacy service provider Advanced Rx announced an alliance with pain-management digital health company Sure Med Compliance to give Advanced Rx sole entry to Sure Med Compliance's Perspectives in Care (PiC) to ensure proper risk and benefit analysis has been determined and recorded when a controlled substance is dispensed. PiC delivers medicolegal understanding at the point of care and educates...
A person holding a smartphone looking out the window
By  Adam Ang 08:46 pm September 2, 2024
The Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, an independent research institute under India's Department of Science and Technology, has invented a smartphone and sensor-based system to support the management of Parkinson's disease. HOW IT WORKS  The system involves a fluorescence nanoprobe, a smartphone camera, and a mobile app. It aims to detect the concentration of L-dopa (levodopa...
Person handing a piece of paper to a pharmacist
By  Anthony Vecchione 12:53 pm August 30, 2024
Digital healthcare company Truepill and healthcare technology prescription specialist firm ScriptDrop are teaming up to combine ScriptDrop's same-day prescription delivery service with Truepill's pharmacy platform, which will give patients the ability to choose their own retail pharmacy for medication delivery via ScriptDrop's two-hour service. The partnership allows patients to visit their local...