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The Forward Momentum Coalition Aims to Increase Diversity in Research and Develop New Digital Resources for Men with Prostate Cancer

BlackDoctor.org, Evidation Health, Movember, and Myovant Sciences have launched Forward Momentum, a coalition working on innovative projects to increase diversity in research and develop new digital resources for men with prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the second most prevalent form of cancer and second leading cause of cancer death in U.S. men, and Black men are twice as likely to die from the disease. Even though a lot of progress has been made in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer, the Forward Momentum coalition believes...

Telehealth’s Promises and Challenges

The COVID-19 pandemic has already spurred many health systems and patients to adopt telehealth as a substitute for in-person doctor visits. Questions remain, however, about telehealth’s impacts on the long-term cost and quality of care, the limitations of remote practice, and the adequacy of conventional healthcare policy to address this growing service. Private payers and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have adopted regulatory and payment changes, and privacy regulations, for telehealth, but what will happen when life returns to normal? On July 8, 2020,...

No alternative to achieve skills on frontier technology to lead 4IR: Palak

Augmedix Bangladesh Head of Country Rashed Mujib Norman presented a keynote paper on “Skills for the 21st Century” at a recent seminar on post-COVID-19 skills for the information and communications technology industry. At the seminar, State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak said there is no alternative to educating people to be skilled users of frontier technologies to reap the benefits of what is known in Bangladesh as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Because of this, the government of Bangladesh has partnered with online...

Rock Health reports record digital health funding of $5.4B set to the backdrop of a pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic may have roiled the U.S. economy and caused unemployment rates unseen since the Great Depression, but that hasn’t stopped the flow of money into digital health, according to a recent Rock Health report. Rock Health’s 2020 Midyear Digital Health Market Update shows that six months into the year, investors have spent a record-breaking $5.4 billion on digital health startups. While the researchers said they expected a major slowdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic, that hasn’t been the case: although there was an...

Breakthroughs with the other C-word

While COVID-19 has justifiably been at the top of healthcare news, a major medical breakthrough has been quietly happening in the San Francisco Bay area—one that could detect another potentially fatal disease before it’s too late: Cancer. And the company responsible for this breakthrough? GRAIL. The American Cancer Society estimates that more than one out of three Americans will be diagnosed with cancer sometime during their lives. The cancer death rate has dropped significantly over the past 25 years, due largely in part to the increase...