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Apple is adding more health-related features for users. The company is transforming its AirPods and developing detectors for sleep apnea and hypertension that could be part of the Apple Watch 2024.

Microsoft and Epic are expanding their partnership to bring generative AI to healthcare, addressing clinician burnout and productivity issues. Over 50 Azure-powered AI solutions will be deployed.

Created by Microsoft's subsidiary Nuance, DAX Express will offer healthcare workers a way to automate documentation to better assist patients more directly. A private preview launches in the summer.

Amazon has announced RxPass, a $5 service for Prime members. It allows you to order unlimited medications and will also deliver them for free. If you need two medicines per month, you can save money.

The new partnership with iCAD makes for Google's first commercial agreement to license its AI-based mammography model and eventually integrate it with real-world clinical products.

Medibank, the Australian private health insurance provider has been hit by a cyber incident. Currently, It is investigating the nature of the incident and any impact it may have on its customers.

According to research published by the Texas Heart Institute Journal, the Apple Watch holds the potential to diagnose symptoms of an early heart attack in users, although more research is needed.

ByteDance, the firm behind TikTok, has acquired Amcare Healthcare through two of its subsidiaries. The health firm runs women's and children's hospitals in major Chinese cities like Beijing.

Amazon will acquire One Medical for $3.9 billion. One Medical will enable Amazon to bolster its digital and virtual care services. One Medical's CEO, Amir Dan Rubin, will stay on as CEO.

HeHealth, a Singaporean startup, has come up with a new idea: send an entirely solicited dick pic to the AI for it to check whether the user has a sexually transmitted disease or other problem.

The UK government has outlined plans to improve the NHS App. The plans will bring down barriers between patients and doctors helping to ensure more people get the treatment they need.

Microsoft's abortion and gender-affirming care services now include travel expense assistance. Companies like Amazon, Yelp, Citigroup, and several others will help employees bypass anti-abortion laws.

Amazon has said that it will reimburse staff up to $4,000 per year if they have to travel to get non-life-threatening treatment more than 100 miles from their home or if virtual care isn't available.

Microsoft has announced that it has finally completed its acquisition of Nuance Communications in an all-cash deal worth $19.7 billion. The two will work together to build assistive technologies.

Certain health data management systems in Brazil have suffered a cyberattack, with COVID-19 vaccination data allegedly being deleted. The government has been unable to recover the data so far.

Google has rolled out a few new features to help users connect with more appropriate healthcare professionals. Users can now see which languages offices use and which support Medicare.

Samsung, Bayer and a few other firms have invested $90 million into Ada Health, the company behind the popular health app Ada. Bayer is also looking to form a strategic partnership with Ada Health.

A new UK-based consortium led by Skyfarer is setting out to create national infrastructure by 2022 that will enable the delivery of medical supplies such as blood for blood transfusions by drone.

Ericsson is working with Telia and Sahlgrenska University Hospital to build AI models that allow the hospital to receive COVID-19 patients in a more prepared manner, ensuring enough supplies.

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Google has rolled out a new app that's meant to help medical researchers better understand human health by reaching a diverse population of Android users that can contribute enough data to research.

In order to help ensure safe and secure distribution of COVID-19 vaccines approaching FDA approval, Microsoft has provided guidance regarding key elements for vaccine management platforms.

In a sternly worded letter, Microsoft has urged world leaders to unite and take action against cybercrime groups from North Korea and Russia, among others, which are attacking healthcare institutions.

iPhone users in the UK and Canada can now have a central repository of all their medical health information with the launch of Apple's Health Records feature within the Health app.

The healthcare industry is experiencing an accelerated transformation. Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, the company's first industry-specific cloud, will be available at the end of October.

With a five-year extension having been put into effect, Microsoft and Allscripts' extended alliance will focus on further development and delivery of cloud-based health IT solutions.

With Azure set to become the John Hopkins inHealth precision medicine initiative's preferred cloud platform, JHM will be looking to advance its medical research with Microsoft's assistance.

Fitbit announced today the rollout of a COVID-19 symptom tracking service that provides guidance to employees in order to help them decide whether they should go back to work or stay at home.

Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare combines features from Microsoft 365, Dynamics, the Power Platform, and Azure. The solution is available in preview starting today, with GA slated for later this year.

Seeing the global spike in the demand for ventilators, Marco Mascorro built a low-cost ventilator using Raspberry Pi and easy-to-source components. Its testing will commence in Colombia.

Using aggregated, anonymized data, Google has released the COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports detailing how the movement of people has changed in 131 countries after the pandemic.

In addition to donating money, the company says it is donating millions of masks to healthcare professionals in the U.S. and Europe. A program permits Apple Card owners to skip March payments.

By working on only de-identified mammograms, Google's machine learning model surpassed individual experts in accurately identifying breast cancers despite working with lesser information.

Having been designed to facilitate the electronic exchange and management of healthcare data, FHIR support is now generally available on Azure, enabling customers to work in the data format natively.

Microsoft has reaffirmed its commitment to healthcare interoperability, along with other cloud providers like Amazon, Google, and IBM. This collaboration initially began almost a year ago.