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T.Therapists at mental health startup Resilience Lab voted to unionize Wednesday in one of the first successful unionization efforts at a digital health company. The move comes two months after the New York-based firm announced his $15 million Series A led by Viewside Capital Partners and Morningside. A current and former employee I spoke to said the company laid off 12 of his therapists, changed payment methods for the rest, and introduced third-party software to track patient progress. He later said there was growing concern among his employees.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 1.2 million healthcare workers will be union members in 2022, representing 13% of all healthcare workers. Whether more health tech employees will follow suit remains to be seen. In a statement, Henry Garrido, executive director of the 37th District Council, which represents Resilience Labs employees, said, “All workers, whether they are doing business online or in person, are union members. deserves the support of
It turns out that it is not easy to solve the problem of pulse oximeters that save lives with dark skin
Brian Stuffer of Forbes
A popular medical device has been essential for measuring oxygen in the blood since the pandemic began, but it’s dangerously inaccurate in dark-skinned patients. , Black researchers at Brown University and Tufts University are working separately to redesign an accurate pulse oximeter for everyone. The FDA is expected to move slowly, but industry watchers say there is one way the FDA can make medical devices universally work for all patients. It’s about changing the inspection requirements. The FDA requires that only 15% or two of study participants have dark skin, far less than the number representative of the American demographic.
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Deals of the week
diagnose: Sherlock Biosciences Acquires Sense Biodetection Sherlock has received the first Emergency Use Authorization from the FDA for its Crispr-based technology for Covid testing in 2020.
Value-based care: Pearl Health, which provides platform technology to help primary care providers transition to a value-based model of care, has raised $75 million in Series B funding to accelerate growth and product development.
Cancer treatment: UK-based Gray Wolf Therapeutics, a biotech start-up focused on developing new types of cancer immunotherapies, raised $49 million in Series B funding jointly led by Pfizer Ventures and Early Bird Venture Capital procured.
Telemedicine for Parents: Simplified, which provides a telemedicine platform for infant care and support, announced this week that it has become an in-network provider for Aetna’s health insurance plans.
worthy of attention
Humana reported a net loss of $15 million in the fourth quarter, but the health insurer expects Medicare Advantage Plan enrollment to grow by more than 625,000 in 2023.
Major drugstore chains such as CVS, Walgreens and Walmart have announced reduced hours in March. pharmacist Labor shortage.
global use of Antibiotics Animal infection rates may rise by the end of the decade, accelerating the spread of difficult-to-treat and resistant superbugs, according to new research.
Coronavirus update
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S.Since the pandemic began, Covid-19 has killed more than 1.1 million Americans. According to the CDC, more than 3,900 Americans have been hospitalized with the disease every day this past week, and he’s dying more than 500 per day. Nonetheless, the Biden administration has said it will not renew the current public health emergency declaration for the Covid-19 epidemic, which expires May 11. The World Health Organization took the opposite approach at a meeting earlier this week, stating: The pandemic remains a global health emergency.
What does ending the public health emergency really mean in fighting this disease?
First, as states identify Medicaid eligibility and consider ways to address the loss of federally-provided subsidies during the current emergency, millions of Medicaid patients will be out of health insurance. Out of scope, and others may be stuck. .
Second, this means the return of Medicare’s 3-day rule. This rule would pay for care in a specialist nursing facility only if the care lasted at least three days of his hospitalization.
Third, it also means Congress must make decisions about Medicare paying for telemedicine visits. Medicare pays for these visits during public health emergencies. However, the law will extend it until 2023 only when the state of emergency ends.
These are just some of the changes that will hit the country after the public health emergency is over. A number of policies have been developed at the direction of the federal government to address the impact of the pandemic on the health care system. Without it, many health care decisions would go back to the states, and health care providers would have to make adjustments in response to these government actions. Only time will tell what effect it will have on the patient.
Study finds Covid to be leading cause of death in children and adolescents
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Covid is among the top 10 leading causes of death for children of all ages, according to new research, but there are several preventative measures (vaccines, masks, quarantines, etc.) that effectively protect against the virus.
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Other coronavirus news
on tuesday, Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine and oral treatment sales are expected to decline significantly this year as Covid cases and hospitalizations stabilize and government subsidies for shots dry up.
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche has launched a new Covid test designed to help researchers spot XBB.1.5, a highly contagious derivative of Omicron. “Kraken”— which is great at evading immune defenses and spreading rapidly throughout the United States and other countries.
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After job cuts and CEO change, Cometeer’s frozen coffee pod business is in hot water
Unicorns in decline: Startup billionaires are nearly $100 billion poorer than they were a year ago
Wall Street’s most connected black woman has original ideas for narrowing the wealth gap
what else i read
Could the new wave of RSV vaccines stop the dangerous virus? (Nature)
Amgen’s Humira biosimilar pricing may benefit PBM and insurers more than patients (Stat)
Bleach Is Toxic, But Many Americans Still Drink It (Bloomberg)
