Should Health Information Services Stock Caremax Inc (CMAX) Be in Your Portfolio Thursday?

News Home

Thursday, June 15, 2023 02:46 PM | InvestorsObserver Analysts

Mentioned in this article

Should Health Information Services Stock Caremax Inc (CMAX) Be in Your Portfolio Thursday?

Caremax Inc (CMAX) is around the top of the Health Information Services industry according to InvestorsObserver. CMAX received an overall rating of 54, which means that it scores higher than 54 percent of all stocks. Caremax Inc also achieved a score of 72 in the Health Information Services industry, putting it above 72 percent of Health Information Services stocks. Health Information Services is ranked 93 out of the 148 industries.

Overall Score - 54
CMAX has an Overall Score of 54. Find out what this means to you and get the rest of the rankings on CMAX!

What do These Ratings Mean?

Searching for the best stocks to invest in can be difficult. There are thousands of options and it can be confusing on what actually constitutes a great value. InvestorsObserver allows you to choose from eight unique metrics to view the top industries and the best performing stocks in that industry. A score of 54 would rank higher than 54 percent of all stocks.

This ranking system incorporates numerous factors used by analysts to compare stocks in greater detail. This allows you to find the best stocks available in any industry with relative ease. These percentile-ranked scores using both fundamental and technical analysis give investors an easy way to view the attractiveness of specific stocks. Stocks with the highest scores have the best evaluations by analysts working on Wall Street.

What’s Happening With Caremax Inc Stock Today?

Caremax Inc (CMAX) stock is trading at $3.52 as of 2:27 PM on Thursday, Jun 15, a gain of $0.12, or 3.53% from the previous closing price of $3.40. The stock has traded between $3.34 and $3.58 so far today. Volume today is low. So far 176,256 shares have traded

Light to Moderate Drinking May Help Relieve Stress, Help Your Heart

Friends talk over glasses of wine.Share on Pinterest
Researchers find evidence that low-to-moderate drinking may help some people relieve stress. Halfpoint Images/Getty Images
  • Researchers find moderate drinking may help relieve stress.
  • Study could explain past research finding better health outcomes for light-to-moderate drinkers.
  • Researchers examined data on more than 50,000 people enrolled in the Mass General Brigham Biobank.

Light to moderate alcohol consumption may lower the risk of cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke by reducing activity in parts of the brain that respond to stress, new research claims.

But researchers caution that alcohol also carries health risks.

“We are not advocating the use of alcohol to reduce the risk of heart attacks or strokes, because of other concerning effects of alcohol on health,” study author Dr. Ahmed Tawakol, a cardiologist and co-director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said in a news release.

Instead, researchers wanted to understand how light to moderate alcohol consumption (one to two drinks a day for men and one drink a day for women) reduces cardiovascular disease, as seen in other research.

“If we could find the mechanism, the goal would be to find other approaches that could replicate or induce alcohol’s protective cardiac effects without the adverse impacts of alcohol,” said Tawakol.

In this observational study, researchers examined data on more than 50,000 people enrolled in the Mass General Brigham Biobank.

People filled out a survey at the time of enrollment, which included a question about their alcohol consumption during the prior year.

Researchers obtained information from participants’ medical records about any major cardiovascular events they experienced during the study period. This included heart attack, stroke, peripheral vascular disease and heart failure.

They found that light-to-moderate drinkers had a lower risk of major cardiovascular events, taking into

Google’s new generative AI lets you preview clothes on different models

Google, ever eager to lean into generative AI, is launching a new shopping feature that shows clothes on a lineup of real-life fashion models.

A part of a wide range of updates to Google Shopping rolling out in the coming weeks, Google’s virtual try-on tool for apparel takes an image of clothing and attempts to predict how it would drape, fold, cling, stretch and form wrinkles and shadows on a set of real models in different poses.

Virtual try-on is powered by a new diffusion-based model Google developed internally. Diffusion models — which include the text-to-art generators Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 2 — learn to gradually subtract noise from a starting image made entirely of noise, moving it closer, step by step, to a target.

Google trained the model using many pairs of images, each including a person wearing a garment in two unique poses — for instance, an image of someone wearing a shirt standing sideways and another of them standing forward. To make the model more robust (i.e., combat visual defects like folds that look misshapen and unnatural), the process was repeated using random image pairs of garments and people.

Google try-on

Google’s new AI-powered try-on feature, which taps generative AI to adapt clothing to different models.

Starting today, U.S. shoppers using Google Shopping can virtually try on women’s tops from brands including Anthropologie, Everlane, H&M and LOFT. Look for the new “Try On” badge on Google Search. Men’s tops will launch later in the year.

“When you try on clothes in a store, you can immediately tell if they’re right for you,” Lilian Rincon, senior director of consumer shopping product at Google, wrote in a blog post shared with TechCrunch. She cites a survey showing that 42% of online shoppers don’t feel represented by images of models while 59%

Official ’cautiously optimistic’ no Thessalon summer ED closures

Renewed financial incentive draws temporary doctors back to Algoma

Article content

North Shore Health Network’s CEO says he is “cautiously optimistic” emergency department closures at hospitals at all three sites – especially Thessalon – can be avoided from now until at least summer’s end.

Advertisement 2

Article content

Tim Vine says the recent renewal of a financial incentive for locums – or temporary doctors – to cover rural and Northern Ontario sites has made all the difference.

“We announced to our locum group that the funding was resumed and within an hour and 15 minutes, we had 12 shifts covered,” Vine told the Sault Star Thursday. Within two days, more than 20 shifts were taken care of.

“Now we’re well over 30,” Vine said.

A COVID-era funding top-up geared to provide relief for rural areas was not renewed in the current fiscal year, beginning April 1. However, more than a week ago, the Temporary Summer Locum Program was ushered in, made retroactive to April 1 and will extend until Sept. 30.

“It’s basically exactly the same top-up funding,” said Vine, adding he understands the Ministry of Health and Ontario Health are working on a “sustainable solution” for after Sept. 30.

Article content

Advertisement 3

Article content

“We don’t know what that looks like yet,” he said.

Physician shortages have especially plagued the emergency department at North Shore Health Network’s Thessalon site, with

WHO/Europe explores collaborations to improve quality of health information online

The WHO Office on Quality of Care and Patient Safety in Athens recently joined forces with YouTube Health to host a workshop in Berlin to enhance the quality of health information online and support Member States’ efforts in this area. This collaborative endeavour lays the groundwork to promote health literacy and make high-quality health information universally accessible. 

“We are very much looking forward to working together for a world where people can access the health information they need online without having to guess its accuracy,” noted Dr Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat, Director of WHO/Europe’s Division of Country Health Policies and Systems, at the workshop. 

The role of digital platforms in health 

The COVID-19 pandemic brought into the spotlight the prominent role of digital platforms in disseminating health-related information and the importance of reliable information, while also exposing the potential perils of misinformation and disinformation. Data indicates that, in the WHO European Region, a large share of consultations now take place online, as people’s initial approach is to search for symptoms and medical advice online. Health-related searches make up 7% of daily online searches, with approximately 4 billion results related to COVID-19. 

In 2021, YouTube had over 110 billion views of health condition videos globally and is working on raising high-quality health content to make it easier for people to identify credible information that can help answer their questions. Commenting on the platform’s impact in the online space, Dr Nira Goren, Clinical Lead at YouTube Health, said, “People use platforms like YouTube to seek answers to questions, such as how do I live with breast cancer or how do I take care of myself.” An increasing number of individuals are also turning to online platforms to share personal stories, alleviate acute distress, and build a community to help decrease feelings of isolation.

However,

Educate patients about misleading AI-generated medical advice

The AMA’s first policies on augmented intelligence (AI)—often called artificial intelligence—were adopted in 2018 and recognized the technology’s potential for enhancing patient and physician decision-making and improving health outcomes.

The process that began five years ago continues, as the AMA fine tunes its AI policies to ensure its positive aspects are funneled toward the benefit of patients and physicians while heightening awareness of the negative aspects that can cause harm.

“AI holds the promise of transforming medicine. We don’t want to be chasing technology. Rather, as scientists, we want to use our expertise to structure guidelines and guardrails to prevent unintended consequences, such as baking in bias and widening disparities, dissemination of incorrect medical advice, or spread of misinformation or disinformation,” said AMA Trustee Alexander Ding, MD, MS, MBA.

Related Coverage

Why generative AI like ChatGPT cannot replace physicians

“We’re trying to look around the corner for our patients to understand the promise and limitations of AI. There is a lot of uncertainty about the direction and regulatory framework for this use of AI that has found its way into the day-to-day practice of medicine,” Dr. Ding said.

Three AI-related resolutions were introduced for consideration by the House of Delegates at the 2023 AMA Annual Meeting in Chicago. They were combined into one measure urging physicians to educate patients on benefits and risks and directing the AMA to work with the federal government to protect patients from false or misleading AI-generated medical advice.

Specifically, the AMA was directed to:

  • Study and develop recommendations on the benefits of and unforeseen consequences to the medical profession of large-language models (LLMs) such as generative pretrained transformers (GPTs) and other augmented intelligence-generated medical advice or content.
  • Propose appropriate state and federal regulations with a report back at the 2024 AMA Annual Meeting.
  • Work with

Analysis: Why Walmart’s new bet on fashion brands, home decor threatens specialty chains

June 15 (Reuters) – Price-conscious shoppers flock to Walmart Supercenters to pick up $1 potato chips and $3 gallons of milk, but the world’s biggest retailer will now try to sell them $298 cozy swivel chairs and $50 Wrangler jeans, too.

Using low-cost and low-margin groceries as a draw, Walmart is adding more than a dozen new lines of pricier, more profitable merchandise including six through partnerships with celebrities like Drew Barrymore and Sofia Vergara.

The company wants to change its image from merely a steep discounter to a destination where customers can also purchase fashionable home goods and clothing.

T-shirts from Reebok, accessories from Justice and men’s dress shirts from Chaps are among the national brands Walmart is highlighting in its renovated “Stores of the Future.” Most of the goods are priced between $15 and $50, Denise Incandela, vice president of apparel and private brands, disclosed at a June 6 conference with investors.

Walmart historically has marketed mostly its own brand of clothing: basic George t-shirts, shorts and pants, typically priced at $15 or less. But Incandela, a former Saks and Ralph Lauren executive, said Walmart’s research showed that 80% of its customers were purchasing higher-priced clothes elsewhere.

She told Walmart investors its strategy is to “democratize fashion” or convert the company’s core, price-conscious shoppers into style-conscious shoppers.

“It is a huge transformation on the apparel side,” she said.

Americans shop for clothing, footwear, chairs and lights from millions of mom-and-pop stores, regional chains and online platforms every day, analyst say, giving no one retailer outsized dominance in the highly fragmented markets for home decor and apparel.

But smaller retailers have a hard time competing with Walmart because of

B.C. health-care crisis: Bigger bureaucracy, longer waits and calls for an overhaul


British Columbia’s health-care bureaucracy is growing while the front line thins, prompting fresh calls for attention to physician recommendations and even a complete overhaul of the healthcare system.


The BC Green Party pointed to the crisis at Surrey Memorial Hospital, and a legal battle between a health authority and an urgent care centre that was too efficient and blew past its meagre diagnostic budget as examples of serious issues that can’t be handle by piecemeal tweaks to the current system. 


“It has become clear that a suite of reforms is required to bring our health-care system out of crisis,” said leader Sonia Furstenau at a press conference Wednesday.


She pointed to a bloated and growing bureaucracy as contributing to the crisis, saying with “64 vice presidents across the health authorities, we have just an absolute multitude of managers and project managers.”


In the first five years of the NDP’s tenure, B.C. saw an increase of nearly 12 per cent in costs for hospital administrators, according to data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information. That’s triple the growth in Alberta (3.6 per cent) but half of Ontario (21.8 per cent).


Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi, the former head of heart surgery at BC Children’s Hospital, pointed out that “Clearly there would be resistance from the inside in reducing the levels of bureaucracy that exist,” but that growing the administrative ranks doesn’t serve patients.


“They’re not just not helping them get better,” he said. “They’re making it harder to access care and to navigate the system.”


SPECIALIST WAITS GETTING LONGER AS RED TAPE PERSISTS


The province’s specialist doctors point to bureaucracy and red tape contributing to long waits. They tell CTV News, since last year’s analysis that one million British Columbians are currently

Health advice: Subtle symptoms slow parathyroid diagnosis

The symptoms of hyperparathyroidism can be subtle. Some people have none, while others can have kidney stones and osteoporosis. Medical conditions like these prompt a recommendation for surgical removal, which is the definitive treatment.

Dear Dr. Roach: After dealing with hyperparathyroidism for over a decade, I became an administrator of a support group for the disease. Many of our members have difficulties getting a diagnosis and a subsequent referral to a surgeon. Can you discuss why you think this is? Shouldn’t a PTH lab be ordered as a followup any time a patient’s serum calcium is flagged as high?

J.C.C.

The four parathyroid glands sit on top of the thyroid and make a hormone called parathyroid hormone, commonly abbreviated as PTH and unrelated to thyroid hormone. Having elevated PTH levels is called hyperparathyroidism, which can be due to one of several causes. Most commonly it’s due to a benign tumor in one of the parathyroid glands. Most people are diagnosed when a routine blood draw shows elevated levels of calcium. This should be repeated, and if still high, a PTH level absolutely should be ordered. A diagnosis of primary hyperparathyroidism is very likely when there is a combination of high calcium and high or normal PTH level. In this case, “normal” isn’t normal, because if the calcium is high, the PTH level should be low.

The symptoms of hyperparathyroidism can be subtle. Some people have none, while others can have kidney stones and osteoporosis. Medical conditions like these prompt a recommendation for surgical removal, which is the definitive treatment. Commonly, I find that for people with vague symptoms, they (and their doctors) might have attributed their experience to getting older. Loss of appetite, some nausea after eating or a little constipation are common. Bone pain and muscle weakness might show

Huron County beaches tested for E.coli during the summer for safety

The Huron County Health Department has started its routine sampling of bathing beach waters for this year.

The sampling looks for dangerous levels of E. coli in the water and monitors the bacteria. If needed the health department will close beaches until they are deemed safe. A press release stated that sampling was scheduled to be collected once a week beginning on June 5 and going through Aug. 29. 

Thirteen beaches from White Rock to Sebewaing are sampled with three samples collected each time at around 3 to 6 feet deep of water. 

“(E. coli levels) can fluctuate a lot depending on rainfall, runoff, and wind direction and speed,” said Tip MacGuire, health officer and environmental health director for the Huron County Health Department. “Last year we had a total of 10 closures at five different beaches during the whole bathing season.” 

The level that they are searching for is 300 E. coli colonies in 100 ml of water (around half a cup of water). Any sample of water with that level or higher would cause a beach to be closed down until levels are back to a safe standard, which is set by the state.

“E. coli and fecal coliform bacteria indicate that the water may be contaminated with human or animal wastes,” said MacGuire “Drinking water with these wastes can cause short-term illness, such as diarrhea, cramps, nausea, headaches, or other symptoms.”

E. coli enters the water several ways, whether it is through industrial discharge, agricultural/urban/stormwater runoff, watercraft activities, and eroded soil just to name a few. The press release notes that most strands of E. coli are not dangerous, however it can indicate the presence of other disease-causing bacteria.

The health department says that residents can help by monitoring their sewage disposal systems, properly disposing of pet

Back To Top