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Pharmaceuticals

Justice Department rescinds order stopping opioid sales by Louisiana distributor | The Washington Post

Morris & Dickson can start sending out opioids again after the Justice Department suspended it from selling opioids, alleging that it didn't "identify large suspicious orders for controlled substances sold to independent pharmacies."

Information technology

More patients are taking home recordings of their doctor visits. But who else could listen? | Stat

Doctors are recording conversations with patients and giving patients the audio to listen to later. They're also using AI to automatically transcribe these recordings. Does this practice put patient privacy at risk?

Providers aim to build engagement tools that actually work | Health Data Management

Patients often stop using wearable trackers, patient portals, and other engagement tools. Healthcare organizations are now trying to make engagement tools more personal and social to keep patients using them.

Vecna, Imprivata partner on biometric palm vein scanning for secure patient check-in | Mobihealthnews

Vecna Technologies and Imprivata are teaming up to bring biometric palm vein scanning to hospitals and ambulatory pratices for patient identification at check-in. The tool will make registration more efficient and improve patient safety and revenue cycle performance, according to Imprivata's chief medical officer.

In other news

Technique used to find Golden State killer leads to a suspect in 1987 murders | The New York Times

Investigators took DNA from the site where Jay Cook and Tanya Van Cuylenborg were killed in Washington State in 1987 and uploaded it to GEDmatch, a genealogy site. They used the results from the site to create a family tree and, ultimately, to find a suspect.