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Not rendering correctly? View this email as a web page here. TOP STORIES How one company has moved to support reproductive rights despite looming regulatory uncertainty The reversal of Roe v. Wade led Forma to make a series of changes to its reproductive health benefits on top of what it originally offered — both for its internal employees and its customers. Sponsored Content Join us next week! Is It Time to Rethink How We Apply AI to Healthcare Data Mining? From Carta Healthcare and MedCity News Webinar: Date: July 20, 2022 Time: 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT This webinar discusses how a human-computer team takes advantage of the clinical expertise and complex problem-solving ability of humans for the more challenging clinical registry fields and the speed and accuracy of AI technology for the more straightforward fields. The result is more accurate, timely data for clinical registries and internal patient care projects. 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Tebra raises $72M to scale its operating system for independent practices By Katie Adams Monday, July 11, 2022 7:25 PM Tebra, a company that sells software to independent physician practices, announced it has raised more than $72 million and reached a valuation greater than $1 billion. The company, which formed last year as a result of a merger between PatientPop and Kareo, will use the funding to advance its platform and scale its sales and marketing teams. Read more » Roche pays $55M for late-stage drug for rare kidney disease with no approved treatment By Frank Vinluan Monday, July 11, 2022 6:54 PM An Ionis Pharmaceuticals drug has positive Phase 2 results in immunoglobulin A nephropathy, leading Roche to exercise its option to license the rights to the molecule. The pharmaceutical giant gets a contender in the chase to win the first regulatory approval of a therapy for this rare kidney disease. Read more » We're in an era experiencing a tectonic shift in foundations of medical imaging By John Martin Monday, July 11, 2022 3:24 PM With a window into human body in real-time, next generation of ultrasound devices thwarts challenges of economic efficiency, geographic limits to care and ineffective training. Read more » How proactively addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) can drive better outcomes, lower healthcare costs By Ted Quinn Monday, July 11, 2022 3:07 PM With proactive outreach by highly trained community health navigators guided by data and leveraging easy-to-use technology, we could get ahead of an individual's needs, design and execute a care plan, and – hopefully – keep them out of the hospital. Read more » Vertex builds up pipeline of type 1 diabetes cell therapies with $320M buyout By Frank Vinluan Monday, July 11, 2022 2:34 PM Vertex Pharmaceuticals already has a cell therapy candidate for type 1 diabetes but the company says acquiring rival ViaCyte will provide it with complementary assets and technologies. The two companies already share a partner in common: both have therapeutic candidates that use the gene-editing capabilities of CRISPR Therapeutics. Read more » Report: Female physicians are much more aware of medicine's gender discrimination than male physicians By Katie Adams Monday, July 11, 2022 2:25 PM Gender discrimination is felt much more in women physicians than it is in men, according to a new report. It found that two-thirds of the female physicians have experienced gender discrimination from a medical colleague, and 57% of them have experienced it from a patients. These numbers were 30% and 19%, respectively, for male physicians. 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