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Emma Beavins

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Health Tech Reporter at Fierce Healthcare

reporter at Fierce Healthcare covering health tech and policy. contact: [email protected]. D.C.

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  • Children's Hospital Los Angeles leverages Apple Watch and new app to collect pediatric sleep data

    1 day ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Emma Beavins

    Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is launching an effort to collect high-quality sleep data from children to ultimately allow for easier at-home detection of high-risk sleep disorders using Apple Watch. Pediatric sleep study beds are in short supply across the country, CHLA said, which limits the amount of data researchers can access on pediatric sleep disorders.

  • NIH to back RFK Jr. autism research campaign with comprehensive data resource from patients' medical records

    1 day ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Emma Beavins

    The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will begin work on a comprehensive federal database of patient records to study autism and chronic disease, Director Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., announced Monday. The commitment gives legs to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s calls to find the root cause of childhood autism, which he calls an epidemic.

  • Gen AI chatbot effectively treats depression, anxiety, eating disorders: study

    3 days ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Emma Beavins

    A recent study out of Dartmouth found that the use of a generative artificial intelligence mental health chatbot decreased symptoms of depression, anxiety and eating disorders in the first randomized controlled trial of its kind. The study demonstrates potential for the gen AI chatbots as a safe therapeutic intervention for mental health conditions, the study authors said.

  • Health Tech Roundup—Leidos invests $10M in AI disease detection with Pitt; Surescripts receives QHIN status

    3 days ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Emma Beavins

    Leidos invests in Pitt AI initiativeLeidos inked a $10 million investment and five-year collaboration to enhance the Computational Pathology and AI Center of Excellence at the University of Pittsburgh. Together, the company and the university will seek to develop artificial-intelligence-powered tools to detect and manage diseases like cancer and heart disease. Leidos hopes to shorten time to diagnosis to improve outcomes for patients.

  • RFK Jr. attacks environmental toxins as cause of childhood autism 'epidemic', stays silent on vaccines

    1 week ago | fiercehealthcare.com | Emma Beavins

    Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hosted a press conference on Wednesday to discuss data out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that showing the rate of autism had increased to one in 31 among 8-year-olds. The findings from the new CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report are based on data collected in 2022 and mark an uptick from one in 36 children diagnosed with autism based on 2020 data.

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RT @transcarent: Now is the time for employers to demand better choice, quality, and affordability in health and care. @GlenTullman tells…

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21 Mar 25

BREAKING: DEA has postponed two telehealth prescribing rules that were supposed to go into effect today until Dec. 31. The first would expand access to buprenorphine via telehealth, and the second would benefit veterans. https://t.co/8ppeBbIpQH

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14 Mar 25

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