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Rimidi Launches COVID-19 Screening App to Identify At-Risk Patients & Limit Exposure

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Rimidi Launches EHR-Integrated COVID-19 Screening App to Identify At-Risk Patients & Limit Exposure to Patients & Staff

What You Need to Know: - To limit the spread of COVID-19 in healthcare settings, Rimidi has developed a Coronavirus (COVID-19) screening application for health systems to identify at-risk patients and direct them to appropriate locations. - The EHR-integrated app is one of the first designed specifically to flag patients with possible Coronavirus symptoms, enabling health systems to mitigate the spread and optimize treatment. Rimidi, a cloud-based software platform, today announced
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Texas Hospital Association to Bring AI-Powered Autonomous Monitoring Across Texas Hospitals

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What You Need to Know: - Texas Hospital Association (THA) and care.ai are partnering to bring statewide adoption of AI-powered autonomous monitoring to hospital and health system members throughout Texas. - care.ai’s platform uses autonomous monitoring to turn a standard hospital room into a self-aware room that provides real-time information about the patient and caregivers. - It uses computer vision – not cameras – to detect and alert staff if an at-risk patient attempts to get out
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FHIR-Based APIs Health Gorilla Becomes Largest CommonWell Connector

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FHIR-based APIs Health Gorilla Becomes Largest CommonWell Connector

What You Need to Know: - FHIR-based API Provider Health Gorilla is now the largest CommonWell Connector by connecting more than 15k participating provider sites within the CommonWell nationwide network. - Health Gorilla was the first CommonWell member to join the CommonWell Connector program, and subsequently, had the first client live via a CommonWell Connector connection Health Gorilla, a provider of FHIR-based APIs, today announced that it has successfully connected more than a
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Amazon Alexa Devices Can Now Answer Medication-Related Questions

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Amazon Alexa Devices Can Now Answer Medication-Related Questions

What You Need to Know: - In a new collaboration between First Databank and Amazon, consumers will have access to a wide variety of FDB’s drug information through simple queries via Alexa, Amazon’s cloud-based voice service. - A subset of FDB’s drug information, trusted for more than 40 years by healthcare professionals, can now be accessed by consumers from any Alexa-enabled device. - The Amazon Alexa integration provides custom content that allows consumers to ask about a drug’s
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Element Science Nabs $145.6M to Commercialize Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator

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Element Science Raises $145.6 million Series C Financing to Advance Next-Generation Digital Wearable Platform

What You Need to Know: - Element Science raises $145.6M in Series C funding to led by Deerfield Healthcare and Qiming Venture Partners USA, includes Cormorant Asset Management and Invus Opportunities. - Funding will enable Element Science to complete clinical studies, begin U.S. commercialization of its digital wearable platform focused on high-risk cardiovascular patients transitioning from the hospital-to-home. Element Science, a San Francisco, CA-based innovative health
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Suki Raises $20M to Expand AI-powered, Voice-Enabled Digital Assistant for Doctors

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Suki Raies $20M to Expand AI-powered, Voice-Enabled Digital Assistant for Doctors

What You Need to Know: - Today, Suki announced a Series B funding round of $20 million, led by new investor Flare Capital Partners and including top investors like First Round and Venrock. - In just two years, Suki has established its product as a leading solution to address the urgent crisis of physician burnout and is already trusted by independent and group practices as well as leading systems like Sutter Health and Ascension. - Suki will use the funding to expand its user base
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Hong Kong’s Dept. of Health Taps Biofourmis’ Remote Monitoring Platform to Fight Coronavirus

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Hong Kong’s Dept. of Health Taps Biofourmis’ Remote Monitoring Platform to Fight Coronavirus

What You Need to Know: - Boston-based Biofourmis’ AI-powered digital therapeutics technology has inked a deal with The University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong’s Department of Health to leverage its wearable, AI-powered remote monitoring platform to provide new insights to fight COVID-19 in a national disease monitoring program. - Biofourmis’ technology will remotely monitor coronavirus infected and suspected patients and apply personally predictive analytics to help patients and increase
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Ginger Acquires Technology Assets of Mental Health App LiveBetter

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Ginger Acquires Technology Assets of Mental Health App LiveBetter

What You Need to Know: - Ginger has acquired the technology assets of LiveBetter, a company that brings free mental health and well-being support to anyone through a highly engaging, conversational app. - LiveBetter reaches over 10,000 users and continues to reach more individuals every day - young adults, the unemployed, new parents, and the homeless. Ginger, on-demand access to behavioral health coaching, video therapy, video psychiatry, and self-guided content has acquired the
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XRHealth to Deliver VR Therapy to Coronavirus Patients in Quarantine in Israel

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XRHealth to Deliver VR Therapy to Coronavirus Patients in Quarantine in Israel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak

- XRHealth announced it will provide Israel’s Sheba Medical Center’s Coronavirus patients in quarantine with virtual reality telehealth services. - The XRHealth platform will provide relief from isolation, stress, and anxiety for those quarantined at Sheba for possible Coronavirus exposure.  XRHealth, a Boston, MA-based provider of extended reality and therapeutic applications, today announced it will be providing virtual reality (VR) telehealth services to the Sheba Medical Center in
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Philips Launches Emergency Care Informatics Suite to Power Real-Time Feedback Between Emergency Responders & Doctors

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Philips Launches Emergency Care Informatics Suite to Power Real-Time Feedback Between Emergency Responders & Doctors

What You Need to Know: - Philips launches its new pre-hospital informatics solution for emergency responders in the U.S. market and will debut it at HIMSS 2020 next week. - Emergency medical service personnel are facing rising demands in their roles while also encountering challenging and diverse cases that require better technology to meet patient needs. - By providing real-time, bidirectional feedback between emergency responders on the scene and doctors in the hospital awaiting the
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