What You Should Know:
- MIT research team created a machine learning algorithm
that predicts the probability that a patient’s Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
can be treated by various antibiotics.
- The team showed that the algorithm would allow
clinicians to reduce the use of second-line antibiotics (which have been shown
to put women at risk for potentially dangerous complications) by 67 percent.
For patients where clinicians chose a second-line drug but the algorithm chose
a first-line
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AI Leads Way to Less False Positives on Remote Cardiac Monitoring Devices, Improved Results
What You Should Know:
- Cardiac patients and their cardiologists are
experiencing a high number of false positives with remote patient monitoring
devices as a result of signal artifact providing inaccurate data, which can
lead to many complications—other than medical, such as unnecessary tests and
increased medical costs.
- Ambulatory cardiac monitoring provider InfoBionic has devised a way to decrease false positives and increase efficiency.
Remote cardiac monitoring’s false
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Ontrak Acquires Science-Backed, Behavior Change Platform LifeDojo
What You Should Know:
- Ontrak acquires LifeDojo Inc, a San Francisco, CA-based
comprehensive, science-backed behavior change platform.
- The acquisition broadens Ontrak’s addressable market
and footprint to lower acuity populations enabling new interventions and remote
patient monitoring.
Ontrak, Inc., a
leading AI-powered
and telehealth-enabled,
virtualized healthcare company, today announced that it has acquired
LifeDojo Inc, a comprehensive, science-backed behavior change
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Mayo Clinic Launches Vocal Biomarker Study for Pulmonary Hypertension Detection
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic announced a collaboration with Vocalis
Health to to research and develop new voice-based tools for screening, detecting
and monitoring patient health, beginning with a study to identify vocal
biomarkers to detect pulmonary hypertension (PH).
- The clinical validation study will utilize Vocalis
Health’s proprietary software, which can operate on any connected voice
platform (mobile, computer, tablet, etc.) to analyze patients’ health based on
voice
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Teladoc Health Completes Merger with Livongo
Telehealth
leader Teladoc Health today announced
it has completed its merger with Livongo
in just under three months. Here are things to know about the completion: Under
the terms of the merger,
Livongo shareholders will receive 0.5920x shares of Teladoc Health plus cash of
$11.33 for each Livongo share (including the special dividend declared by
Livongo).
The company expects to directly deliver more than 10 million
virtual visits this year and has reported an additional three million
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Fern Health Taps 10M Mass General De-Identified Patient Records for Pain Management
What You Should Know:
- Fern Health will reveal a
first-of-its-kind collaboration with Mass General Hospital where it will inform
existing and future digitally-delivered pain management programs through the
marriage of AI + predictive analytics with 10 million de-identified Mass
General patient records.
- MGH will validate emerging Fern Health products and pilot new products in clinical environments, setting the stage for Fern expansion into all aspects of non-invasive multimodal pain
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Mammoth Lands 2 Major Partnerships to Use CRISPR to Solve COVID19 Testing Shortage, At Scale
What You Should Know:
- Mammoth Biosciences signs agreements
with MilliporeSigma and Hamilton company targeting commercialization of high-throughput
CRISPR-based SARS CoV-2 Test.
- These partnerships will help Mammoth bring a turnkey CRISPR-based sample-to-answer solution for commercial laboratories to enable a multi-fold increase in a testing capacity.
Mammoth
Biosciences, Inc., announced that it has signed agreements with
MilliporeSigma and Hamilton Company targeting
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Redox Integrates Voluntis’ Digital Therapeutics Within EHR
What You Should Know:
- Voluntis forms a strategic partnership with Redox to integrate Voluntis' digital therapeutics within existing clinical workflows and EHRs.
- Integration of Voluntis’ Theraxium platform with the
Redox Engine used by more than 900 healthcare organizations using 55 EHRs
across the country.
- The first area of this application will be in oncology,
with future extensions in other therapeutic areas. As a result, clinical staff
will be better equipped to serve each
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Epic Expects More Than 190 Health Systems to Go-Live on EHR This Fall
What You Should Know:
- Epic Systems announces that more than 190 health systems across nine counties are expected to go-live on Epic, marking this fall as the busiest install season in Epic’s 41+ year history.
- Healthcare organizations in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States are transitioning more than 123,000 doctors, nurses, and support staff to Epic’s EHR between September and the end of the
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Fitbit Receives $2.5M Award from Army for COVID-19 Early Detection
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command selects Fitbit to advance the development of a wearable diagnostic capability for the early detection of COVID-19 infection.
- Fitbit plans to initiate a prospective
study with Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research to
validate its COVID-19 early detection algorithm.
Fitbit announced today it has been selected by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) to
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