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By Lewis Krauskopf and Manojna Maddipatla (Reuters) – Positive clinical trial results for Merck & Co’s experimental antiviral COVID-19 pill reverberated through the healthcare sector on Friday, sending the drugmaker’s stock price soaring while denting high-flying shares of vaccine companies and makers of other coronavirus therapies. Merck shares jumped as much as 12.3% and hit their highest level since February 2020 after data showed the company’s pill molnupiravir… Source link

Privacy laws in the U.S. need to be updated, especially after Google struck a deal with a major hospital chain, medical ethics expert Arthur Kaplan said Wednesday. “Now we’ve got electronic medical records, huge volumes of data, and this is like asking a navigation system from a World War I airplane to navigate us up to the space shuttle,” Kaplan, a professor at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine, told “The News with Shepard Smith.” “We’ve got to update our privacy protection… Source link

CNBC’s Jim Cramer expressed optimism Wednesday toward Google‘s new health-care venture with hospital chain HCA Healthcare, heralding the deal as the latest positive catalyst for shares of the technology giant. “It’s the kind of thing that makes you want to buy the stock, and even though Google’s up 36% for the year … I think it’s got a lot more room to run,” said the “Mad Money” host, who currently holds a favorable outlook on the broader cohort of FAANG stocks. Under the partnership with… Source link

Google has made a deal for access to patient records from HCA, which which operates 181 hospitals and more than 2,000 healthcare sites in 21 states, so the tech company can develop healthcare algorithms, The Wall Street Journal reports. Google will store anonymized data from patient health records and internet-connected medical devices. That data will be used to build programs that could inform medical decisions made by doctors. The deal is described as “multiyear” by the WSJ,… Source link

Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG 0.29% Google and national hospital chain HCA Healthcare Inc. HCA 0.50% have struck a deal to develop healthcare algorithms using patient records, the latest foray by a tech giant into the $3 trillion healthcare sector. Nashville, Tenn.,-based HCA, which operates across about 2,000 locations in 21 states, would consolidate and store with Google data from digital… Source link

Google Cloud announced this week that its Healthcare Consent Management API, aimed at giving users a simple way to manage individuals’ consent over health data use, is now generally available.   The API was made available via Public Preview last fall. According to the tech giant, early adopters have used it to create personalized patient portals, securely integrate data into clinical workflows and develop virtual clinical trials.   “We’re pleased to add the Healthcare Consent Management… Source link

The NXT GEN MED program will launch on the Rochester campus in Summer 2022. The University of Minnesota recently announced that a new health sciences degree program, designed to address the national shortage of healthcare workers, will be launching on the Rochester campus in summer 2022. In a collaborative project, the NXT GEN MED program will use new technology from Google to teach students in a hybrid format and connect them with working healthcare professionals from the Mayo Clinic, a… Source link

UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health on Tuesday launched a mobile app that’s designed to provide healthcare workers with mental health resources amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Heroes Health app, a part of UNC School of Medicine’s Heroes Health Initiative and developed with volunteers from Google, is meant to help healthcare workers better understand their own mental health, said Dr. Samuel McLean, an emergency medicine physician at the medical school who founded the initiative. There’s also… Source link