This is Naomi Diaz with the Becker digital
health podcast.
Here's your daily industry news briefing for today,
May twentieth.
First,
The Fda has given Elon Musk Newer link,
the green light to implant its brain chip
into a second person. The Wall Street Journal
reported May twentieth
Their approval comes a few weeks after the
first patient experienced issues with the implant.
The company has proposed fixes to the issue,
including implant the device threads 8 millimeters into
the brain's motor cortex,
compared to the 3 to 5 millimeters
implanted into the first patient.
In March, Ne link introduced 29 year old
Nolan Bra as the first patient to have
received its brain chip implant. The neuro technology
company posted a video on mister Mu x
platform,
showing the patient who was left paralyzed after
a diving accident in 20 16,
playing chess on a computer, directing a cursor
to play the game by by thinking.
It may the company said that a number
of threads on the implant retracted from the
patient's brain causing the implant to lose part
of its functionality.
New hopes to implant a second patient sometime
in June and aims to implant 10 people
with a device this year.
Second,
Opt is closing a change healthcare facility in
toledo, Ohio, resulting in the termination of a
hundred and 29 employees located in Ohio or
working remotely.
The layoffs will occur in 3 waves from
July fifteenth to September 6, according to regulatory
documents filed with the Date on May sixteenth.
The 93000
square foot facility is located at a hundred
North Bran Road in Toledo, date In April
formal employees with Opt and its subsidiaries subsidiaries
took to social media, regarding a reduction in
force, they say occurred across the company.
Opt declined to provide more information about the
layoffs at that time, and it is unclear
if they are connected to the Toledo layoffs.
Opt also laid off an unknown number of
employees in August.
Affected facilities include the everett clinic and the
Poly clinic in Seattle.
And Med Express urgent Claire K as well
as well met.
Third.
Epic was the only Ehr vendor to experience
a net market share increase in 20 23,
according to a May seventeenth class research report.
Abbott picked up a hundred and 53 acute
multi special hospitals and 28788
beds last year, the analysis found.
77 hospital winds came from 3 health systems
switching to Epic.
The company now covers over half of acute
multi specialty hospital beds in the Us.
According to the report, quote, both current and
prospective large organization customers are drawn to Epic
because they see the vendor as a consistently
high performer that provides strong healthcare It, quality
relationships and the opportunity to streamline workflows and
improve clinician satisfaction.
Large specialty organizations have all turned to epic
to consolidate It systems and, quote.
Here was the acute care Ehr market share
in 20 23 per the report.
Percentage of hospitals, Epic stands at 39.1
percent. Oracle health stands at 23.4
percent, and meta tech stands at 16 percent.
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