Coronavirus is a deadly virus with a high transmission rate. It has become so widespread that it has now disrupted the economies of every country on the planet. Since it is a novel virus, there are still tons about it that we do not know.
However, one thing rings true—the health and safety of the general public is of utmost importance. Who is at the helm of all this? All the medical frontline workers who are risking their lives to contain the virus and treat all
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Philips Rolls Out Mobile ICUs in India to Tackle COVID-19, Can Be Deployed in 1 Day
What You Should Know:
- Philips introduces first-of-a-kind mobile ICUs in India
to tackle COVID-19 and other emergencies with each ICU unit capable of being
deployed in one day.
- Each mobile ICU comes pre-equipped with a state-of-the-art critical-care infrastructure, such as independent patient cubicles, plus anti-bacterial paint and high-end washrooms with a self-disinfection facility to avoid cross-contamination.
- Next to the mobile ICUs Philips is also offering a
dedicated
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Synapse Medicine Raises $8M to Expand Medication Intelligence Platform to Ensure Prescription Safety
What You Should Know:
- French digital health startup Synapse Medicine raises
$8M in funding led by insurance provider for healthcare professionals MACSF.
- The Synapse Medicine medication intelligence platform
supports companies and healthcare institutions in their decision-making
processes to ensure the safety of prescriptions.
- Synapse Medicine currently works together with
telemedicine companies, public and private insurance providers, hospitals and
care facilities, as well as
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Pilot: Clinical Digital Assistant Reduces EHR Documentation Time and Burden for Family Physicians
What You Should Know:
- AAFP Innovation Lab pilot program with Suki, an AI-powered, voice-enabled digital assistant for doctors, significantly reduced EHR documentation time and burden for family physicians.
- The pilot studied the impact of a digital assistant
used for visit note completion for over 15 to 30 days by 10 family physicians.
- The time and motion results showed a 62% decrease in documentation time per patient, a 51% decrease in documentation time during clinic, and a
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Mayo Clinic to Automate Patient Triage in ED to Reduce Physician Burden, Optimize Emergency Room Visits
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic has inked a partnership Diagnostic Robotics
to automate their patient triage system – allowing Mayo Clinic to make quicker,
smarter decisions for patients when limited medical resources are available.
- The new AI-driven platform will supplement the
physician decision-making process in real-time by assisting with the clinical
intake of patients – analyzing a simple questionnaire filled out by patients
and rapidly determining their symptoms, test
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Evidation Health Lands $45M to Expand into Virtual Health Market, Appoints Chief Commercial Officer
What You Should Know:
- Evidation Health raises $45M in Series D funding to expand its privacy-first, direct-to-person research platform to the virtual health market.
- Evidation Health will use this new investment to enable
Achievers to gain clinically actionable insights into their health. The first
of these new virtual health offerings is slated for release later this year.
- To help guide the company as it ushers in this new era,
Evidation has also hired Sam Marwaha as Chief
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SwitchPoint Ventures Spins Out AI-Driven Health IT Startup Polaris Health
What You
Should Know:
- SwitchPoint (made up of veteran healthcare leaders with experience at Intermedix/R1 RCM and others) launches a new technology venture, Polaris Health that leverages AI to predict patient demand and create efficient clinician schedules that align with this demand.
- Polaris Health’s solution utilizes
proprietary machine learning algorithms to predict provider demand, distribute clinician resources to meet that
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Philips Partners With Proscia to Accelerate Open Digital Pathology Adoption
What You Should Know:
- Philips inks a collaboration with digital pathology
leader Proscia to advance an open ecosystem that helps laboratories accelerate
and scale digital pathology adoption.
- Proscia will integrate the Philips Pathology SDK to
natively utilize Philips’ iSyntax image format with its Concentriq digital
pathology platform and suite of AI modules, providing users of Philips’ digital
pathology solutions with expanded options to meet their business and
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New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs
What You Should Know:
- Healthcare technology company DrFirst has announced the
release of its next generation, patented SmartSig AI technology to improve the
quality of patient medication history when it is imported into hospitals’ and
health systems’ electronic health records (EHRs).
- Simple prescription instructions, called “sigs,” can
have hundreds of variations or be missing entirely from patients’ medication
histories when they are imported into hospitals’ EHRs. The missing
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Walgreens Boots Alliance, Microsoft, Adobe Expand Partnership to Launch Personalized Prescription for Patients
What You Should
Know:
- Today, Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Microsoft, and Adobe announced an expanded partnership launching a world-class marketing technology and customer data platform to deliver consistent, personalized, and engaging experiences across all touchpoints and channels while respecting and protecting privacy choices of patients and customers.
- Reaching millions of customers worldwide each day, WBA will streamline offers and deliver targeted products and services from
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