Walmart to include abortion coverage in healthcare plan for US employees
August 23, 2022:- One of the biggest private employers in the United States, Walmart, has chosen to include abortion coverage for its workers. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, they decided to add abortions to their current healthcare plans.
Per the memo sent to the employees, the healthcare plans will now possess abortion for workers “when there is a health risk to the mother, ectopic pregnancy, rape or incest, miscarriage or absence of fetal viability.” The plans will be “efficacious immediately,” it further noted.
UVA Health helping healthcare workers who experience workplace violence
August 23, 2022:- According to a news article by Keagan Hughes in NBC29, a new federal study says that healthcare employees are five times more probable to experience workplace violence than in any other assiduousness and that most go unreported.
AESOP Technology Wins Coveted Place in Mayo Clinic Platform Accelerate Program
August 23, 2022:- AESOP Technology declared that they had been accepted into Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate, a 20-week program that supports early-stage health tech AI startups getting market-ready.
Participants are chosen through a competitive screening process where a discussion of Mayo Clinic leaders reviews them from the clinical and operational viewpoint, led by John Halamka, MD., President of Mayo Clinic Platform.
HCA Healthcare Foundation’s $600,000 Grant to Volunteers of America
August 23, 2022:-HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: HCA), one of the country’s leading healthcare providers, recently announced a $600,000 grant to Volunteers of America (VOA) via the HCA Healthcare Foundation and its Healthier Tomorrow Fund to boost mental wellness and resilience among first responders. Via this contribution, VOA intends to scale its VOA|ReST 4 First Responders program in particular areas served by HCA Healthcare, such as HealthONE in Denver, Medical City Healthcare in Dallas-Fort Worth, and HCA Florida Healthcare.
Google workers call to expand abortion & privacy protections
In an article in TechCrunch by Taylor Hatmaker, a group of more than 600 Google employees is pushing the company to grow worker health benefits, rid itself of some political ties and bolster user privacy in light of the Supreme Court judgment to strip federal abortion rights.
Collaboration for a better future
August 22, 2022:- According to an msn, two healthcare giants—Epic Systems in electronic records and Pacific Dental Services (PDS) in oral healthcare—have collaborated together for an enhanced future. This collaboration holds tremendous promise to improve health results for patients.
RefleXion Announces Multi System Contract with Select Healthcare
August 22, 2022:- RefleXion Medical, a therapeutic oncology firm pioneering biology-guided radiotherapy* (BgRT), a new modality that utilizes emissions generated from cancer to lead radiotherapy, announced a three-system contract with Select Healthcare, a developer of affiliated cancer installations throughout the United States. The multi-year, multi-site contract will build new free-standing treatment centers that display the dual modality of the RefleXion® X1 platform for treating all phases of cancer with external beam radiotherapy (EBRT).
Building the future of healthcare in the metaverse
August 17, 2022:- Artificial intelligence integrated with augmented and virtual reality sets the metaverse foundations across almost every assiduousness. The metaverse is in its newness phase, giving businesses a competitive edge, improving sales, and building brand prestige.
Startup to End Nursing Shortage makes to the list of Growing Companies
August 17, 2022:-According to Business Wire, Inc. has revealed that Gale Healthcare Solutions (Gale) ranked in the top 20 percent of its yearly Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in America. Gale — a startup that ended the nursing shortage — just transcended the milestone of 50,000 nurses utilizing its smartphone app to find and accept open shifts at healthcare facilities — in seconds.
Blood shortages are affecting some local hospitals
August 16, 2022:-According to Garret Roberts, Beaver County Times article, as blood donations persist in remaining low across the country, some local healthcare providers are starting to see the trend’s effects on their supplies.
