Health Technologies

£5 million award for non-clinical decision support software for NHS 111 Wales – htn

  • December 28, 2023
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A contract valued at £5.19 million for non-clinical decision support software for NHS 111 Wales has been awarded to US-based company, Priority Solutions Inc. The notice states the award was based on “extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable for the contracting authority”, and notes the solution is urgently required to replace the legacy software […]

Quick Charge Podcast: December 27, 2023

  • December 28, 2023
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Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on Saturday. Subscribe to our podcast in Apple Podcast or your favorite podcast player to guarantee […]

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JN.1 Now Accounts for Nearly Half of U.S. Covid Cases

  • December 27, 2023
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As the holiday season winds down and Covid-19 cases start to pick up, a variant called JN.1 has now become the most common strain of the virus spreading across the United States. JN.1, which emerged from the variant BA.2.86 and was first detected in the United States in September, accounted for 44 percent of Covid […]

News

Digital health leaders on the most noteworthy events of 2023

  • December 27, 2023
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Executives in the digital health space shared with MobiHealthNews the most notable events in healthcare in 2023, including generative AI moving into the mainstream, the rise of ChatGPT, the fall of Silicon Valley Bank and Medicaid disenrollment. Matthew Stoudt, cofounder and CEO of AppliedVR “Silicon Valley Bank was the clear Black Swan event of 2023 […]

Tesla accuses Reuters of manufacturing a story

  • December 27, 2023
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Tesla is accusing Reuters of “manufacturing” a story about the automaker lying to customers to make repairs off warranty. Last week, Reuters posted a story titled ‘Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective.’ In short, the report claims that Tesla gaslighted customers into thinking they were responsible for issues needing […]

Here are your 3 favorite Electrek solar stories of 2023

  • December 27, 2023
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Here are the Top 3 stories about solar industry happenings that Electrek readers got most excited about in 2023. In an agrivoltaic study I reported on in March, UCLA engineers put a semi-transparent solar roof on a greenhouse, and some pretty cool things happened with the roof and the plants. It may look insignificant in […]

News

Apple is banned from selling its latest Apple Watches in the U.S.

  • December 27, 2023
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Apple can no longer sell its newest smartwatches, the Apple Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2, in the U.S. after President Biden declined to veto a product ban implemented by the International Trade Commission (ITC) that cited patent infringement. The ban, which came into effect this week, was implemented by the ITC in October […]