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CAN BIDEN GO BIGGER?: President Joe Biden is earning praise in health tech circles for the speed with which he’s taken charge of the pandemic response in his first month on the job. It’s the rest of his health care agenda that’s worrying industry insiders, who fear he may be missing an window to go big, powering up Obamacare’s tools for test driving ideas that could transform health care.
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RYE BROOK, N.Y., Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) announced today a collaboration with Ciitizen, a digital health technology startup, to collect data on the impact of COVID-19 and vaccination from people with a current or past diagnosis of blood cancer as part of a broader strategic partnership. The LLS National Patient Registry opened today to enroll all blood cancer patients, including those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 or may have plans to be, as well as blood cancer patients who have tested positive for the virus. Overall, patients with blood cancer are at risk of more severe outcomes from COVID, but the risk is not the same across all types of blood cancer, said Gwen Nichols, M.D., LLS Chief Medical Officer. We are calling on blood cancer patients to become citizen scientists by joining our Registry to help us learn all we can to improve care for blood cancer patients during this pandemi
Your App Knows You Got Your Period. Guess Who It Told?
Millions of women use apps to track their cycles, and that data is often passed on to third-party companies, like Facebook and Google. But what if that data could be used to help women’s health research?
Credit.Bianca Bagnarelli Carolyn Witte, chief executive and co-founder of the women’s health clinic Tia
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Every day, Flo, a women’s health app, invites its more than 100 million users to enter intimate details about their bodies that they might not share even with their closest friends or family: the color and consistency of vaginal discharge, the length of their periods, whether they had protected or unprotected sex, whether they feel frisky or have a low libido.
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