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Day 4 Notes from the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

Healthcare Law Blog

We also have latched onto “evidence- based” treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that is manualized to make it easy to be undertaken by lesser-trained professionals. Of course, this needs to be done after a safety/risk assessment is completed. David Cordani, Cigna’s CEO, shared an interesting “big picture” perspective.

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Vocal Markers Move Toward Clinical Use

Healthcare IT Today

A simple app on a cell phone can detect unusual patterns in speech that suggest when a person is depressed or anxious, is losing cognitive function, or has pulmonary disease. These automated models can monitor so many people efficiently that they have potential applications in public health as well as diagnosis and treatment.