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Top Story How Penn Medicine's Telemedicine Program Saved It $113 Per Patient Penn Medicine recently published a study on the economics of providing telemedicine — it showed that when the health system began offering virtual urgent care services to its employees, the visits ended up being 23% less expensive to conduct than in-person appointments. Sponsored Content The Challenges of Temperature Controlled Logistics and How to Overcome Them Presented by MedCity News & YSDS Life Sciences With more freight moving around the world than ever, there's never been such pressure on the success of temperature controlled logistics as there is now. Learn expert tips to help you navigate temperature controlled logistics. Read More>> Calling All FemTech Startups Startups in this category are software and medical technology companies that are addressing various aspects of female physical and mental health. We are now accepting FemTech Pitch Perfect submissions for MedCity INVEST Digital Health, which is taking place on October 26, 2023 at Pegasus Park in Dallas, TX. Submit your application today.

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New FDA Draft Guidance Signals Acceptance of Decentralized Trials (When Done Right) he FDA has made a purposeful choice to write in broad strokes, stopping short of detailing ways to execute DCTs. Even so, the Agency is starting to acknowledge – and thereby support – the global shift towards expanded trial models. Essentially, the FDA is implicitly broadening the definition of clinical trials. What Pear Therapeutics' Bankruptcy Has Left the DTX Industry to Ponder One of the fastest-growing frontiers of healthcare is Digital Therapeutics (DTx), which utilizes clinically tested […] Primary Care Missed Targets in the Quadruple Aim Medical schools and residency training programs push trainees away from primary care and make primary care seem less prestigious. Medicare is the largest payer of graduate medical education, so Medicare could require additional outpatient primary care training in residency to encourage Family and Internal Medicine trainees to enter outpatient primary care, where the need is critical. Patients Want Convenient, Personal Care — But Staffing Levels Are Preventing Clinicians from Delivering It Patients yearn for care experiences that are more convenient, personal and accessible. However, clinicians aren't doing a great job of delivering this kind of care, according to a new report. The staffing crisis has put clinicians under a lot of pressure — they feel they often don't have time to deliver adequate care of get effectively trained on how to use new technology. Accolade Taps Equip for Eating Disorder Support Accolade added Equip to its Trusted Partner Ecosystem, a collection of health vendors vetted by Accolade that its customers can decide to contract with. Equip virtually connects patients struggling with an eating disorder with a five person care team, which includes a medical physician, dietician, therapist, peer mentor and family mentor.

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MedCity Pivot Podcast: It's Time To Talk About Responsible AI In this episode of the Pivot podcast,  we spoke with Suchi Saria, associate professor of medicine at John Hopkins University and director of its Machine Learning and Healthcare Lab. She is also CEO of Bayesian Health. Saria has spent a lot of time researching responsible AI and how to develop a framework for its adoption in healthcare. Listen Now

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