Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has become an integral part of modern healthcare, utilizing wearable devices to track patients' conditions outside the clinic or hospital setting. Devices like these collect critical information from patients, such as their heart rate, activity levels, and temperature, which providers can use for real-time insights to guide treatment and identify conditions proactively.
Due to the technology’s inherent advantages, providers and researchers have increasingly
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Mercy’s AI-Powered Texting Platform Intercepts Chemo-Related Hospital Admissions
What You Should Know:
- Mercy has developed a new AI-driven texting platform called The Chen Chemotherapy Model, which is helping to keep chemotherapy patients out of the hospital by raising red flags before symptoms become severe. The model was created by Jiajing Chen, a data scientist who passed away from cancer earlier this year.
- The Chen Chemotherapy Model predicts the likelihood of outpatient chemotherapy patients experiencing symptoms that may result in hospitalization within 30
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Teen Mental Health Startup BeMe Health Raises $1.5M From BCBS Kansas
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BeMe Health (BeMe), creator of an interventional behavioral health platform built by and for teens, has announced a $1.5 million funding investment from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas (BCBSKS). This investment and strategic partnership will extend mental health support to an estimated 20,000 teenagers across Kansas, addressing a critical need as suicide is now the second-leading cause of death among those aged 15 to 24 in the U.S.
Increasing
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MIT Spun Out Layer Health Launches with $4M to Build the AI Layer for Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Layer Health, a healthcare AI company spun out of MIT, has been launched with $4M in funding from investors such as GV (Google Ventures), General Catalyst, and Inception Health.
- The company is focused on solving the information problem in healthcare by using AI to quickly perform any clinical, administrative, or research task that requires chart review from unstructured data.
Building the AI layer for healthcare — powered by large language models.
Layer
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Game-Based Technology Keeps Seniors Happier and Healthier
If I told you to picture a gamer, what comes to mind? Likely a teenager or young adult sitting at a desk in their game room, which is outfitted with a multitude of monitors, gaming consoles, and other gadgets. The last image that would probably come to mind is that of a 70-year-old woman wearing a virtual reality headset and playing an interactive game. But you'd be surprised to learn that this is just as much of an accurate depiction of a "gamer" as the first example.
Fifteen percent of
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NYU Langone Health Makes History with Successful Whole-Eye & Partial-Face Transplant
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- A surgical team at NYU Langone Health performed the world’s first whole-eye and partial-face transplant on a 46-year-old military veteran, Aaron James, who survived a high-voltage electrical accident at work.
- The 21-hour surgery was led by Dr. Eduardo D. Rodriguez, director of the Face Transplant Program at NYU Langone along with a team of more than 140 surgeons, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.. James had lost his left eye and suffered extensive facial
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Withings Launches Body Pro 2 for Early Diabetes Detection
What You Should Know:
- Withings Health Solutions has launched Body Pro 2, a revolutionary cellular-connected smart scale that is designed to improve the way patients with diabetes are cared for.
- Body Pro 2 is a cellular-connected smart scale that can be used to capture advanced health metrics such as weight and body composition.
Diabetic Foot Ulcers Assessment
The first module of Body Pro 2 is prescription-only and focuses on improving care for patients with diabetes, addressing
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Butterfly Network, iCardio.ai Partner to Deploy Cardiac Ultrasound AI Tools
What You Should Know:
- iCardio.ai, a developer of deep learning algorithms for ultrasound images, has joined Butterfly Garden, an AI Marketplace by Butterfly Network.
- The agreement aims to integrate iCardio.ai's suite of cardiac ultrasound AI tools with Butterfly's single-probe, whole-body handheld ultrasound system, pending applicable approvals.
Cardiac Ultrasound AI Tools
Cardio.ai's software, awaiting FDA 510(k) clearance, automates critical measurements of the heart, detects
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Aiberry Expands Mental Health AI-Powered Assessment Platform to Cover Major Anxiety Disorders
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Aiberry®, a leading AI-powered mental health assessment platform, today announced that it has expanded its capabilities to include screening for anxiety disorders, in addition to the clinically-validated depression assessments it has provided to date.The comprehensive anxiety screening includes assessments for five distinct anxiety disorders including generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), and
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Widespread Ultrasound Adoption in Primary Care Expected Within 5 Years, Exo Study Reveals
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Exo, a pioneering medical imaging software and devices company, today released its 2023 Survey Report: Unlocking Point-of-Care Ultrasound.Based on a survey of more than 150 U.S.-based physicians, the report uncovers trends related to point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) adoption and use—such as challenges with existing solutions, their perceived value of handheld POCUS devices, and the impact of new innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI) on medical imaging and
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