Amazon patents new Alexa skill to detect when user is sick
(By Julie Spitzer for Becker’s Hospital Review) Amazon has filed a patent for its virtual voice assistant, Alexa, aimed at
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CVS Health-Aetna deal OK’d by Justice Department
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) CVS Health entered into an agreement with the Department of Justice to move
Read MoreMedicare-for-All and Public Plan Buy-In Proposals: Overview and Key Issues
(By Tricia Neuman, Karen Pollitz and Jennifer Tolbert for Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation) Medicare-for-All, an approach championed most recently
Read MoreWhen ICU Delirium Leads To Symptoms Of Dementia After Discharge
(By Richard Harris for NPR) Doctors have gradually come to realize that people who survive a serious brush with death
Read MoreDoctors Give Medicare’s Proposal To Pay For Telemedicine Poor Prognosis
(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News) The Trump administration wants Medicare for the first time to embrace telemedicine across
Read MoreNo More Secrets: Congress Bans Pharmacist ‘Gag Orders’ On Drug Prices
(By Susan Jaffe for Kaiser Health News) For years, most pharmacists couldn’t give customers even a clue about an easy
Read MoreA Brain Scientist Who Studies Alzheimer’s Explains How She Stays Mentally Fit
(By Jon Hamilton for NPR) As a specialist in Alzheimer’s prevention, Jessica Langbaum knows that exercising her mental muscles can
Read MoreSpurred By Convenience, Millennials Often Spurn The ‘Family Doctor’ Model
(By Sandra G. Boodman for Kaiser Health News) Calvin Brown doesn’t have a primary care doctor — and the peripatetic
Read MoreBlack Market For Suboxone Gives Some A Glimpse Of Recovery
(By Jake Harper, Side Effects Public Media, produced in partnership with NPR and Kaiser Health News) Months in prison didn’t
Read MoreCongress Targets Misuse Of Hospice Drugs
(By Melissa Bailey for Kaiser Health News) Hospice workers would be allowed to destroy patients’ unneeded opioids, reducing the risk
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