What You Should Know:
- American Heart Association awards Stanford Medicine a $2.5M grant for a digital health and clinical trial for treating hypertension in black and Hispanic participants and in drivers for ride-hailing companies.
- The award is part of a $14M grant to several institutions including Stanford School of Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Michigan for research on reducing healthcare disparities through digital health
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Fred Pennic
Fred Pennic is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of HIT Consultant. Fred is a seasoned health IT strategist with fourteen years of experience in providing advisory services to executive leadership at hospitals and health systems. Some of his previous clients include Mayo Clinic, Stanford Hospital and Health Clinics, Northwell Health, Trinity Health.
Seattle Children’s Develops Nation’s First Opioid-Free” Surgery Center
What You Should Know:
- Seattle Children’s Hospital and its Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center (BCSC) leveraged AI-based technology from Seattle-based MDmetrix to develop the nation’s first “opioid-free” surgery center.
- The MDmetrix Mission Control platform was used to visualize and evaluate outcomes data so that physicians could quickly adapt their surgical protocols, incorporating evidence-based best practices, to effectively manage surgical pain while reducing
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COVID-19 Trend Report Reveals Which States Have Reached or Passed their Peaks
What You Should Know:
- New COVID-19 Trend Report created by Sermo displays states/regions that have reached or passed the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic based on physician reports.
- The COVID-19 Real Time Barometer Study provides exclusive access into the perspectives and expertise of over 20,000 total physicians across 30 countries, tracked over time.
- Majority of physicians in many COVID-19 Hotspots including Korea, Spain, China and Italy believe their countries have passed or
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AiCure Launches Platform to Remotely Capture Digital Biomarkers in Clinical Trials
What You Should Know:
- AiCure launches digital biomarker platform to remotely detect subtle changes in a patient's condition, leverages computer vision and AI to gather and analyze visual and auditory cues directly through the patient's smartphone camera.
- AiCure appoints Ed Ikeguchi, M.D. as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to advance AiCure's commitment to improving holistic health through an understanding of the science behind human responses to illness and
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HeartVista Raises $8.65M to Expand One Click, AI-Guided MRI Platform
What You Should Know:
HeartVista, a pioneer in AI-assisted MRI solutions raises
$8.65M in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, Jeff Rothschild, Leslie
Ventures, Open Field Capital, and additional investors.
The startup plans to use the funding to fuel new
musculoskeletal and neural products, expand internationally, and deepen
strategic alliances with the world’s leading cardiology centers.
HeartVista,
a pioneer in AI-assisted MRI solutions, today announced the closing of
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New COVID-19 Tracker Predicts Future Hot Spots Over Next 7-10 Days
What You Should Know:
- Cotiviti unveiled its COVID-19 Outbreak Tracker to map future infection “hot spots” that may emerge over the next seven to ten days across the U.S.
- The COVID-19 Outbreak Tracker identifies potentially hidden outbreak areas by analyzing COVID screening trends across the millions of medical claims processed through the company’s Caspian Insights platform.
- Forecasting future surges of infection is critical for flattening the curve now, especially considering
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Report: How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Changing Patient Communications
What You Should Know:
- Data from Luma Health reveals stark gaps in the volume and cadence of COVID-19-related messages sent between doctors and patients.
- California, one of the states hit early and hard by COVID-19, increased patient communications more than 91x over, with 206,000 messages broadcast between late January and March; New York saw a 16x increase over the same period (both states with approximately the same number of cases in early March).
- During the month of
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Cerner Offers Free Access to De-Identified COVID-19 Patient Data for Research, Vaccine Development
What You Should Know:
Cerner offers health systems and research centers free access
to de-identified COVID-19 data to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
The de-identified COVID-19 data includes patient
demographics, underlying illnesses, chronic conditions, treatments, lab
results, clinical complications and outcomes.
Today, Cerner announced
a new offering to eligible U.S. health systems and academic research
centers that it was providing complimentary access to critical
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Airforce to Deploy FDA-Approved Oral Fluid COVID-19 Tests Across US Military
What You Should Know:
COVID-19 testing startup Curative Inc. and Gothams announced it has signed an agreement (phase one is $13m USD) with the U.S. Air Force to deploy its FDA-authorized oral fluid COVID-19 tests and comprehensive testing service to U.S. military personnel around the world.
In this initial agreement, Curative will rapidly
establish a new laboratory facility, fully operational this week, which will
process
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Verily Launches COVID-19 Pathfinder for Health Systems & Hospitals
What You Need to Know:
Verily has launched COVID-19 Pathfinder-- a new set
of tools that provide on-demand access to COVID-19 information directly from a
hospital or health system website.
To help relieve the burden on care teams, Verily
has launched COVID-19
Pathfinder, a screening tool and programming template that provide
on-demand access to COVID-19
information directly from a hospital or health system website. San Joaquin General Hospital, Western
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