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The supply chain crisis is spurring companies to transform production and sourcing strategies to reduce risk [Sponsored]

By Stephanie Baum Tuesday, January 11, 2022 7:30 AM

The report, Resilience in volatility: Modernizing the supply chain, highlights three areas that Fortune 500 and mid-size companies need to address to implement technology such as machine learning, cloud computing and risk management tools to improve production and delivery.

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Time is running out to apply to pitch your healthcare startup at MedCity INVEST

By Stephanie Baum Tuesday, January 11, 2022 7:30 AM

The deadline to apply to the MedCity INVEST Pitch Perfect contest in Chicago, scheduled for March 28-30 at the Ritz Carlton, is January 31.

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How AI almost led Dr. Farzad Mostashari down the wrong path on health equity

By Arundhati Parmar Tuesday, January 11, 2022 1:34 AM

In a virtual panel discussion about public and population health at J.P. Morgan's annual conference, the CEO of Aledade shared how the quest for efficiency in a world of harried physicians' practices almost led Aledade to use a flawed ML algorithm to engage at-risk patients of those practices.

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Teladoc CEO: Why Cigna buying MDLive was positive for us

By Michael Schroeder Monday, January 10, 2022 11:43 PM

A leader in telemedicine, Teladoc's stock is on a slide. But company leaders expect that investors will come around as the company continues to grow, gain customers and retain existing patients.

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BMS puts $150M on the table in off-the-shelf cell therapy alliance with Century

By Frank Vinluan Monday, January 10, 2022 10:45 PM

Bristol Myers Squibb is partnering with Century Therapeutics, placing a $150 million bet that the biotech's technology for engineering stem cells can produce new off-the-shelf cell therapies for cancer. If the four potential programs covered under the pact reach the market, milestone payments could bring Century more than $3 billion.

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Physicians group files brief supporting AMA/AHA Lawsuit

By Emma Bardin Monday, January 10, 2022 4:48 PM

Physicians Advocacy Institute, American Association of Neurological Surgeons, and Congress of Neurological Surgeons lead a coalition of physicians groups in filing an amicus curiae brief backing the American Medical Association and American Hospital Association's lawsuit opposing the dispute regulation guidelines of the No Surprises Act that went into effect January 1.

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Pfizer, Bayer each strike up deals to add in-vivo gene editing to pipeline mix

By Frank Vinluan Monday, January 10, 2022 1:29 PM

As the annual J.P. Morgan HealthCare Conference kicked off Monday, two pharma giants unveiled deals that give them access to in-vivo gene editing technologies. Pfizer is teaming up with Beam Therapeutics to develop new base-editing therapies while Bayer hopes to develop new medicines with the in-vivo CRISPR editing tools of Mammoth Biosciences.

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