Qualcomm’s new expanded smart care offerings help hospitals and health systems extract value from data to improve patient outcomes, lower costs and recapture revenue. Qualcomm Life, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, today unveiled several new offerings on its smart platform that make data more visible and actionable, empowering clinicians and caregivers to make better insight-based decisions about their patients. The platform connects medical devices and clinical systems, collects and
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Jefferson and Teladoc to Create the First Telehealth Fellowship Program
Teladoc Health, a provider of virtual care, today unveiled a partnership with Jefferson (Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University) to create the industry’s first academic telehealth fellowship program. The telehealth fellowship is already underway this fall semester at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University), home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10
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Eko’s AI Algorithm Detects Pediatric Heart Murmurs With Cardiologist-Level Accuracy
Eko’s heart murmur detection AI-driven algorithm outperformed four out of five cardiologists for the detection of heart murmurs in a recent clinical study.During the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2018, Eko, a cardiac monitoring company that combines non-invasive sensors with machine learning presented a clinical study abstract revealing their murmur detection algorithm outperformed the majority of participating cardiologists. The study entitled, “Artificial Intelligence
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Massachusetts General Hospital to Deploy CarePassport’s Digital Health Platform for Clinical Trials
Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding hospital of Partners HealthCare, announced it will implement CarePassport's digital health platform for patient monitoring and engagement in research studies. The largest hospital-based research program in the nation selected the Boston-based company to enhance its research processes in clinical trials by enabling two-way communication with patients and collecting more structured health data throughout the patient's medical journey.CarePassport's
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Force Therapeutics Raises $21M to Scale Episode-based Digital Care Delivery
Force Therapeutics, a New York-based provider of episode-based digital care delivery, today announced it has raised $21 million funding led by Insight Venture Partners. The funding will fuel Force's rapid product innovation, national expansion across major health systems, and client growth. Force is currently deployed in 60 facilities around the country and powers digital care management at leading health systems, including Geisinger, NYU Langone, Northwell Health, University Hospitals of
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VA Taps VisualDx to Improve Diagnostic Accuracy in Skin-Related Conditions
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is expanding its partnership with diagnostic clinical decision support tool VisualDx to improve diagnostic accuracy in skin-related conditions. The one-year license agreement license will give clinical staff in more than 1,200 of the VA’s healthcare facilities nationwide access to VisualDx’s add-on feature, DermExpertDermExpert AI OverviewToday, more than 65 percent of skin complaints are seen by non-dermatologists, and 15 percent of all primary care
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Shriners Hospitals for Children Expands Implementation of Tonic Health’s Mobile Patient Survey Platform
Shriners Hospitals for Children is expanding the implementation of Tonic Health’s mobile patient survey platform across the organization's entire national footprint of non-profit hospitals, clinics, and outreach facilities. The expansion will help achieve Shriners' goal of building and utilizing the largest database of pediatric patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in the United States. Shriners' growing pediatric outcomes database enables the health system to trailblaze new standards of
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SUNY Hospital Taps Vocera to Reimagine Physician-Patient Experience with Digital Rounding
Upstate University Hospital in New York has adopted the Vocera Rounds solution to improve communication between physicians and patients, improving care and satisfaction.Vocera Communications, Inc., a provider of clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced that physicians at Upstate University Hospital in New York have implemented Vocera’s digital rounding solution to improve communication. SUNY Upstate Medical University located in Syracuse, NY, is the only academic medical
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Life Image, Medel.ai Integrates to Support AI-Driven Clinical Trails
Life Image, a global network for sharing clinical and imaging data, today announced a new partnership with Mendel.ai, a novel AI platform built to turbocharge oncology clinical research, to support the adoption of AI in site selection and patient recruitment for clinical trials.According to Accenture, AI-powered clinical trial identifier apps are expected to save the industry $13B by 2026. This strategic partnership between Life Image and Mendel addresses this demand by combining the power of
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Change Healthcare, TIBCO Collab to Bring Blockchain-Powered Smart Contracts to Healthcare
Change Healthcare and TIBCO Software, today announced a collaboration to build the first blockchain-powered smart contract system for healthcare to enable payers to automate processes across the healthcare transaction lifecycle. Using the Change Healthcare Intelligent Healthcare Network blockchain technology and TIBCO's smart contract developer project, Project Dovetail automates events across the healthcare transaction processing lifecycle.Benefits of Blockchain-Powered Smart Contracts in
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