Healthcare

Interstate Health bolsters advisory board with high-profile additions

Brentwood, Tennessee-based Interstate Health has announced the addition of three prominent leaders to its advisory board.

Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, along with Joe DeSantis and Nicholas S. Zeppos, join the board as the company seeks to expand its health care model across America’s highways, Interstate Health said on Wednesday.

The company, launched in November 2022, focuses on serving commercial drivers and rural communities and aims to address critical...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/interstate-health-bolsters-advisory-board-with-high-profile-additions

Zipline and Cleveland Clinic partner on prescription drone delivery

This story originally appeared on flyingmag.com. 

One of the most highly regarded health care providers in the U.S. will soon deliver prescriptions via drone.

Cleveland Clinic, considered one of the top hospital systems in the world based on rankings by outlets such as U.S. News & World Report and Newsweek, is partnering with drone delivery provider Zipline to fly certain medications directly to patients’ porches, patio tables or front steps starting in 2025.

Deliveries will be made using Zipline’s...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/zipline-and-cleveland-clinic-partner-on-prescription-drone-delivery

Rwanda launches nationwide drone delivery service with Zipline

What began six years ago as a small pilot program using drones to deliver blood in remote areas of Rwanda has now evolved into a first-of-its-kind nationwide drone delivery network.

On Thursday, Bay Area-based drone delivery firm Zipline and the government of Rwanda announced a new partnership that will grant the company medical delivery service access to every single resident and household in the country.

The new partnership will triple Rwanda’s drone delivery volume by adding new delivery sites...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/rwanda-launches-nationwide-drone-delivery-service-with-zipline

Elroy Air to deliver 100 cargo drones to Bristow Group

Elroy Air and Bristow Chaparral model

Houston, we have liftoff.

Bristow Group (NYSE: VTOL), a Houston-based vertical flight services provider that operates drone delivery services in the region, has signed a letter of intent with drone firm Elroy Air to pre-order 100 of its autonomous, hybrid-electric Chaparral aircraft.

Bristow plans to use the Chaparral to move time-sensitive cargo for logistics, health care, energy and other applications. It will be the first vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drone dedicated to cargo to be...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/elroy-air-to-deliver-100-cargo-drones-to-bristow-group

VIKAND and Key Maritime Stakeholders Launch Seafarers’ Human Sustainability Declaration during Nor-Shipping

Front row: Peter Hult, CEO, VIKAND, Ezekiel Davis, Regional VP, ABS, Stephen Schueler, Advisory Board Member, VIKAND
Middle row: Susanne Justesen, Senior Lead Diversity & Inclusion, Global Maritime Forum, Chris Bhatt, CCO Transportation & Logistics, AON, Ben Palmer, President, Inmarsat Maritime, Kiran Venkatesh, CEO, FrontM
and Back row: Nick Chubb, Founder & Managing Director, Thetius, Marcel Kind, CEO, Simwave

Global Healthcare specialist VIKAND and key maritime stakeholders have launched the...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2022/04/07/vikand-and-key-maritime-stakeholders-launch-seafarers-human-sustainability-declaration-during-nor-shipping/

Omicron is the Scrooge

Omicron sweeps across the nation — 73% of United States COVID-19 cases. Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., federal health officials said Monday.

Coronavirus is disrupting the Christmas holiday — As people start to travel for the holidays, doctors warn the surge in Covid-19 cases could continue thanks to the more transmissible Omicron variant.

Business Closures increasing —The pandemic resulted in the permanent closure of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/omicron-is-the-scrooge

What is value in the health care supply chain?

Value statements, or Value propositions

Each have different definitions and objectives, but they are relatively the same within various industries. And then there’s the health care supply chain. What’s the value proposition?

Pinpointing the priorities:

Supply chain in health care has many competing value statements within any given organization. The elasticity and influence of the supply chain in health care have many competing objectives — values — inside the same organization. The ability to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/what-is-value-in-the-health-care-supply-chain

Uber Eats partners with Hims & Hers, will deliver in 12 markets

Uber Eats partners with telehealth platform Hims & Hers to deliver personal care products to 12 markets

Uber wants in on the health and wellness space. The rideshare and food delivery giant is partnering with telehealth platform Hims & Hers (NYSE: HIMS) to deliver personal care and health products to Uber Eats customers in 12 markets, including Los Angeles, Seattle, Miami, Philadelphia and Austin, Texas.

Uber (NYSE: UBER), which launched Uber Health — a service that allows health care organizations to arrange rides for patients — in 2018, has been dipping its toes into the health and wellness...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/uber-eats-partners-with-hims-hers-will-deliver-in-12-markets

Artificial intelligence breakthrough: learning what our immune system is telling us

Artificial intelligence breakthrough: learning what our immune system is telling us

Dr Hector Zenil.

Artificial intelligence breakthrough: learning what our immune system is telling us

By James Brewer

In what promises to be a transformative leap in healthcare, scientists are developing AI means to learn from and monitor a patient’s immune system, delivering predictive analysis and preventative medicine.

A specialist company, Oxford Immune Algorithmics (OIA) is seeking a role “to end all preventable...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/10/27/artificial-intelligence-breakthrough-learning-what-our-immune-system-is-telling-us/

Affinity Empowering takes the ‘visit’ out of ‘doctor’s visit’

Affinity Empowering launching new services eHome and eCare bolstering direct to consumer healthcare

No one likes visits to the doctor, and for good reason: It usually means that you’re sick, you’re missing work or you’re going to be stranded in the waiting room. But what if you could take the visit out of your doctor’s visit?

Affinity Empowering has a simple mission: provide excellent health care without the throes of sitting in a waiting room for who knows how long. The company, which specializes in occupational, behavioral and direct-to-consumer health services, announced on Thursday that it...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/affinity-empowering-takes-the-visit-out-of-doctors-visit

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