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The continuous glucose monitoring system can be used to measure glucose levels in adults with diabetes for up to six months.

The Egyptian non-profit has teamed up with GE Healthcare to utilise AI to assess how well a patient is responding to neoadjuvant therapy, commonly used prior to surgery.

Also: Patricia Baran joins personal ECG company AliveCor, while SDOH analytics platform Socially Determined and virtual surgery startup Proximie both add two new members to their executive teams.

Precision genomics could impact the payer, provider and life science space. 

In a preview of their HIMSS22 session, Serena Bumpus of Ascension and Stephanie Hoelscher of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center explain their Texas pilot study on crisis documentation during COVID-19 surges and how it could lessen the burden on nurses.

This week's top stories include racial and ethnic minority enrollees reporting significantly worse experiences around care access compared to whites, and Amazon Care expanding in-person offerings to 20 new cities.

Also, HCA Healthcare UK opens £26M specialist oncology unit at UCLH.

Berlin-based digital health company plans to expand in the US market.

Also, Genesis MedTech has acquired Chinese valve replacement device maker JC Medical.

The acquisition will cost $53.5 million in cash, plus an earnout consideration of up to $24 million and around $5 million in stock to employees joining Doximity.