- VA recently announced they will be offering a care management solution designed to detect and prevent one of the costliest and most complicated diabetes-related issues, diabetic foot ulcers, to a wider group of veterans in need. - The solution, Podimetrics' SmartMat, is currently in 15 VAs and starting Dec. 1, more VAs will begin offering the easy-to-use mat to its patients.- Last year alone, the VA treated nearly 75,000 cases of DFU and spends more than $3 billion per year on the issue,
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Heart Failure is Detectable at Point of Care Using ECG-Enabled Stethoscope, Mayo Clinic and Eko Finds
- Eko and Mayo Clinic announced they have proven that heart failure is detectable during routine physical exams, further validating the Eko DUO digital stethoscopes as a heart failure screening tool. - Today’s news marks the first time that a point of care device with a single lead ECG combined with an AI algorithm identified low ejection fraction in patients.- The results of these findings, which are comparable to research published earlier this year in NatureMedicine, were presented over the
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Biofourmis Acquires Clinical-Grade Wearable Biosensor Platform Biovoation AG
- Biofourmis acquires Zürich, Switzerland-based Biovotion AG, a leading developer of a cutting-edge clinical-grade wearable biosensor platform.- The Biovotion AG deal comes with 60 global patents covering much of the existing wearables tech for the arm and hand, as well as an impressive list of more than 80 current and previous clients/partners—including major players such as Microsoft, IBM Research, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Penn Medicine and Helios.- The cash +
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Life Image, Graticule Launches Imaging Dataset In AWS Data Exchange
- Life Image and Graticule announced the availability of GLIMPS (Graticule Life Image Machine Parsed Set) data licensing subscriptions in AWS Data Exchange. - GLIMPS (Graticule Life Image Machine Parsed Set) is a de-identified patient-level data set including a summary of features generated from NLP processing on Life Image data. - The goal of GLIMPS is to provide a cost-effective patient-level snapshot to biopharma data science teams to fuel the necessary discussions about these data, leading
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Starlight Children’s Foundation Leverages Virtual Reality to Reduce Pain for Hospitalized Children
- Denver Film Festival showcases how Starlight Children’s Foundation leverages Lenovo’s Mirage™ Solo VR headset in its Virtual Reality program as a procedural tool for critically ill young patients, primarily to reduce anxiety during mild to moderately painful procedures.
- Since 2018, Starlight Children's Foundation has placed over 1,300 Virtual Reality headsets in over 300 healthcare facilities transforming the hospital experience for more than 18,000 seriously ill kids.
This week,
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FDA Clears AI-Powered EchoGo Core for Early Detection of Cardiovascular Disease
- Ultromics has just become one of the first companies to have 510(k) FDA clearance for an AI medical device. - EchoGo will now be available for clinicians in the UK and US to use to help them identify cardiovascular disease earlier. - EchoGo automates cardiac measurements and is the first AI application to measure cardiac strain, improving patient care and outcomes.Ultromics, the UK-based health technology firm at the forefront of applying artificial intelligence to echocardiography has
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Deloitte, Amazon Web Services Partner to Create New Health Ecosystems Through Data
- Deloitte is now working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its new cloud-based service AWS Data Exchange to help organizations quickly and easily find, access and share data from other institutions securely.- Deloitte and AWS Data Exchange together will help organizations and researchers uncover the value created from the vast amounts of data generated throughout the healthcare ecosystem. Most of this data has been inaccessible – and if it is accessible, it’s difficult to find and obtain. -
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Willis-Knighton Health System to Implement MEDITECH Expanse EHR
- Willis-Knighton Health System, the largest healthcare system in North Louisiana renews long-term partnership with MEDITECH to deploy the fully-integrated EHR platform across all care settings.- Implementation includes Expanse Population Health, which will enable them to deliver care that reaches far beyond the hospital and physician's office.Willis-Knighton Health System, a Shreveport, LA-based not-for-profit healthcare system, today announced it has signed to implement MEDITECH’s mobile,
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NextGen Acquires Medfusion for $43M, Spins Out Data Services Business to Form Greenlight Health
- NextGen Healthcare announced today it has agreed to acquire Medfusion for $43 million in cash to give its clients a better patient engagement platform. - Medfusion will spin out its data services business to form Greenlight Health to meet the growing need for patient-initiated health data retrieval. - Greenlight Health will be focused on driving data flows for patients, consumers, businesses and organizations that need ready access to patient-approved data housed across a wide variety of
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InsightRX, Premier Partner to Bring Precision Antibiotic Dosing to 4,000 Hospitals
- InsightRX and Premier Inc. Partner to enable 4,000 hospitals, health systems, and providers to personalize treatment for infectious disease patients.
- The integrated solution aims to decrease serious side effects caused by vancomycin and other antibiotics used to treat infectious diseases.
InsightRX, a provider
of precision medicine, and Premier Inc., a healthcare improvement company
uniting 4,000 U.S. hospitals and health systems, have joined forces to individualize
medication
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