What You Should Know:
- Data analytics and digital health company MDClone
announced a partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) VHA
Innovation Ecosystem to democratize data and provide better, smarter, faster
healthcare to U.S Veterans.
- By leveraging MDClone’s data platform, the VHA is able to tackle this massive problem by securely accessing, organizing, and analyzing the critical health data of Veterans with the use of synthetic data – a breakthrough method pioneered
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Verily Nabs $700M to Expand Baseline, Verily Health Platforms
What You Should Know:
- Verily, a subsidiary of
Alphabet focused on life sciences and healthcare announced it has raised $700M
from current investors, including Alphabet, Silver Lake, Temasek, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and others.
- The company plans to use the capital to support rapid
expansion of some of Verily’s leading commercial businesses including Baseline, an end-to-end ecosystem
designed to make clinical research more efficient; and Verily Health Platforms,
which supports
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H1 Secures $58M to Expand Global Healthcare Data Platform
What You Should Know:
- H1, the largest database of information on every doctor
in the world raises $58M in Series B funding, just six months after raising its
Series A round during the pandemic.
- H1 is the largest database in the world connecting that
provides comprehensive in-depth profiles of more than 9 million healthcare
professionals and 16,000 institutions in 70-plus countries, all of which are
kept up-to-date weekly.
H1, a global
platform for the healthcare
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More Than 45 Million Medical Images Are Openly Accessible Online
What You Should Know:
- CybelAngel tools scanned approximately 4.3 billion IP addresses and detected more than 45 million unique medical images left exposed on over 2,140 unprotected servers across 67 countries including the US, UK, and Germany.
- The report highlights the security risks of publicly accessible images containing highly personal information including ransomware and blackmail.
The analyst team at CybelAngel, a global leader in digital risk protection, has discovered
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OHSU to Deploy Virtual ICU Across 8 Sites to Extend Care to Patients in Rural Communities
What You Should Know:
- With ICU beds near capacity across the United States,
GE Healthcare announced a strategic partnership with Oregon Health and Science
University (OHSU) that will allow OHSU to oversee and help provide care to ICU
patients across eight hospital sites via a “Virtual ICU” (VICU), using the GE
Healthcare Mural Virtual Care Solution.
- The VICU provides critical care specialists at OHSU
with digital tools to deploy hospital defined care protocols to remotely
identify
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AI Algorithms Can Predict Outcomes of COVID-19 Patients with Mild Symptoms in ER
What You Should Know:
- Artificial intelligence algorithms can predict outcomes
of COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms in emergency rooms, according to recent
research findings published in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence journal.
- Researchers trained the algorithm from data on 338
positive COVID-19 patients between the ages of 21 and 50 by using diverse
patient data from emergency departments within Mount Sinai Health System
hospitals (The Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, Mount
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How Hackers Are Targeting COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Chains – Q/A
With the US and other major countries poised to begin national
distribution of multiple FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccines, the cybersecurity threats
to secure COVID19
vaccine distribution is imminent. Earlier this month, IBM released a report on malicious cyber actors targeting
the COVID-19 cold chain—an integral part of delivering and storing a vaccine at
safe temperatures.
Impersonating a biomedical company, cyber actors are sending phishing and spear-phishing emails to executives and global
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M&A: Cerner to Acquire Health Division of Kantar for $375M in Cash
What You Should Know:
- Cerner announces it will acquire Kantar Health, a leading data, analytics, and real-world evidence and commercial research consultancy serving the life science and health care industry.
- This acquisition is expected to allow Cerner’s Learning
Health Network client consortium and health systems with more opportunities to
directly engage with life sciences for funded research studies. The acquisition
is expected to close during the first half of
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FDA Authorizes First Fully Over the Counter COVID-19 Home Test
What You Should Know:
- FDA grants Emergency Use Authorization for Ellume
COVID-19 Home Test for non-prescription home use in symptomatic and
asymptomatic individuals
- The first fully over-the-counter COVID-19 Home Test
demonstrated 96% accuracy in a multi-site US clinical study of both adults and
children 2 years and above
- Ellume is ramping up manufacture, with production on
track for over 100,000 tests per day in January 2021
Ellume, a
digital diagnostics announced its rapid,
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Abbott Receives CE Mark for its COVID-19 IgG Quantitative Antibody Blood Test
What You Should Know:
- Abbott Receives CE Mark for its COVID-19 IgG Quantitative Antibody Blood Test that specifically detects levels of IgG antibodies that attach to the virus’ spike protein, which can be helpful to evaluate a person's immune response to vaccines.
- Abbott plans to submit its test for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization soon.
Abbott, today
announced it received CE Mark for its new quantitative SARS-CoV-2 IgG
(Immunoglobulin G)
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