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Information technology

Allen AI joins Microsoft, Baidu to help empower academic searches | Health Data Management

The newly formed Open Academic Search project will bring together organizations working on artificial intelligence to make available open-source technology.

Hippo Health launches its relationship-focused telemedicine offering in Colorado | Mobihealthnews

Boulder, Colo.-based Hippo Health launched Tuesday, offering telemdicine to patients across Colorado that the company says will improve care by having doctors choose specialists particularly suited to their patients' needs.

Medical devices

Red blood cells with superpowers: Rubius rallies a $120M Series B | Medcity News

Rubius Therapeutics has received $120 million in funding to further develop its red blood cell platform, which turns red blood cells into therapeutic tools for applications such as activating T-cells for cancer immunotherapy.

Safety, quality and clinical practice

Clinicians see conflicts in patient access to mental health notes | Health Data Management

Patient access to notes about their mental health care affects how Veterans Health Administration clinicians document that care, according to a new study.

Pharmaceuticals

Drugmaker Mylan gets boost from unlikely source: coal | Reuters

Mylan has received hundreds of millions of dollars of refined coal credits thanks to its 99% stakes in five companies that process coal.

In other news

Ancient DNA reveals role of Near East and Egypt in cat domestication | Science Daily

Researchers have found DNA evidence that domestic cats' roots are in the Near East and Egypt, where farmers and wildcats grew closer and closer until the cats were no longer wild. Most of these cats had stripes; spotted cats didn't pop up until the Middle Ages.