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Apple (AAPL) is bringing updates to the software that powers the Apple Watch. Announced at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2021, watchOS 8 brings a number of changes to the world’s best-selling wearable, including the ability to track your respiratory rate and new workouts. Apple previously announced sleep tracking capabilities for the Apple Watch, but this year, it’s adding the ability to track your respiratory rate while sleeping as well. This is something that a number… Source link

Angela Lang/CNET Google has struck a deal with a national hospital chain to collect patient data… Source link

Health care costs in the U.S. continue to grow year after year, leaving Americans with more and more debt. According to Credit Karma data provided to Yahoo Finance, roughly 21 million Americans holding $46 billion of medical debt as of April 2021 face collections — meaning that a third-party debt collector is trying to obtain the money owed. “Our system is completely out of whack,” Frederick Isasi, executive director at Families USA, a nonprofit and nonpartisan consumer health advocacy… Source link

Google is taking one of the most significant steps yet by a big tech company into healthcare, launching an AI-powered tool that will assist consumers in self-diagnosing hundreds of skin conditions. Derm Assist is the first of its kind and will launch in Europe this year before being aimed at the nearly 2bn people globally suffering from skin conditions ranging from acne to melanoma. Users will have to sign into their Google accounts, upload images of their medical condition… Source link

A coronavirus outbreak among vaccinated players and staff has “” the New York Yankees and attracted the attention of the CDC this week. So far, eight people, including shortstop Gleyber Torres, have tested positive more than 14 days after being fully vaccinated. Because the team has a high level of vaccinated personnel, the Yankees have not missed any games while weathering this outbreak, and seven of the eight cases have been asymptomatic. Still, the accidental case study of post-vaccine… Source link

Millennials are in poor health — and it’s driving up health insurance costs One-third of millennials have a health condition that reduces both their quality of life and their life expectancy, according to a recent study of medical claims done by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Index. What does that mean for this ageing generation’s future? “Based on these findings, we’re seeing that millennials are not seeking preventative care and it’s not only having an effect on their immediate… Source link

In a wide-ranging and forthcoming interview, Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO who helped steer the tech giant’s foray into health care, opened up about a host of issues facing the future of medicine. Among the topics Schmidt touched on in a half-hour conversation at the STAT Health Tech Summit: his upcoming role as the board chair of the powerful Broad Institute, why synthetic biology is a critical field to watch, the fraught debate over patient data privacy and health systems, and why… Source link

Bloomberg As Sanjeev Gupta Rose From Trader to Tycoon, Several Banks Backed Away (Bloomberg) — British industrialist Sanjeev Gupta’s companies seemed to be prospering until his main lender, Greensill Capital, imploded last month. But long before Greensill collapsed, several banks had cut off the commodity trading business of Gupta’s Liberty House Group.Four banks stopped working with Gupta’s commodity trading business, starting in 2016, after they became concerned about what they… Source link

Google is reportedly making inroads toward creating a patient health record tool.   According to STAT’s Erin Brodwin, the company is recruiting patients to weigh in on how they want to access their own medical record data – potentially to help shape user-facing software.    “Google is running a user feedback program to test features that give users the ability to collect health information from their provider patient portals, organize, search and share it with the people they trust in… Source link

Google is recruiting people to give feedback for a new consumer-facing medical records tool, Stat News reported on Friday. The company wants to know how people want to interact with information pulled from their medical records. Right now, the company is recruiting around 300 people who use Android devices in Northern California, Atlanta, and Chicago. This is Google’s second attempt at creating a way for people to access their medical records. In 2008, it launched Google Health, which… Source link