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Without further ado,
here's your daily industry news briefing for today.
March 25th, first verily a healthcare
and life sciences arm of Google Parent Company.
Alphabet has cut jobs.
The company has reorganized the operations
of its immune profiler platform,
which uses molecular profiling for drug development.
Ley spokesperson told Becker's,
the spokesperson emailed in a statement March 25th
to Becker stating quote,
this move is aligned with our portfolio.
Reprioritization announced last year
as Verily invest its resources to accelerate solutions
that bridge the gap between care delivery
and clinical research.
This was a difficult decision to make,
but we believe that it will best enable us
to deliver on our precision health promise.
Veley had previously laid off an unknown number
of employees in October.
The most recent round of job cuts was first reported
by Business Insider.
Second, CFOs have mixed opinions on
how AI will affect the finances
of their respective health systems.
According to a report from the Healthcare Financial
Management Association
and eliciting insights, according to the report conducted
with 135 health system CFOs, they said
that CFO's pain points found that 39% of CFOs anticipate
that AI will lower cost.
While 27% said they will anticipate AI will increase
overall, overall cost 34%.
The effect said the effects of AI will be neutral.
Third, Sacramento,
California based Sutter Health opened an 11,000 square foot
digital innovation center this month in San Francisco
to develop new healthcare AI
and remote patient monitoring platforms.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported March 22nd,
the 22 hospital system.
Signed a seven year lease for the space in January
and will bring its designers, developers,
and engineers together with Bay Area AI
and digital health firms to come up
with new healthcare solutions.
This is a long bet Chief Health CH Sutter Health Chief
Innovation Officer Chris War told the newspaper
products on development include in-home sensors including
for the bed, stove, and refrigerator
that track people's movements
to determine when they're at risk for falling
and AP to monitors, teens mental health
and a digital program
where hypertension patients keep tab on their
blood pressure from the home.
The center will also include a model hospital
- Room of the future, complete
with remote patient monitoring devices
and an Apple genius bar type setup
where patients can help the Sutter's Digital health apps
according to the story.
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