In recent years, the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has created a wave of excitement and anticipation within the healthcare industry. AI has the potential to revolutionize patient care, improve diagnostic and prognostic accuracy, enhance treatment planning, and streamline administrative tasks. However, for AI to truly deliver on its promises, it is essential that AI tools undergo rigorous clinical validation. As both industry and government leaders continue to determine the
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FIGS & Eko Health Launches New Digital Stethoscope
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FIGS, Inc. (NYSE: FIGS), the direct-to-consumer healthcare apparel and lifestyle brand, and Eko Health, Inc. (“Eko”), a leading innovator in digital health technology for heart and lung disease detection, today announced the launch of the FIGS | Eko CORE 500TM Digital Stethoscope.The collaboration unites two companies that have reinvented two healthcare professionals’ mainstays — scrubs and stethoscopes — through new technology, modern design, and authentic
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Diabetes Management in 2023 and Beyond: A Tech-Enabled Partnership Between Patient and Doctor
While the pandemic has slowed, there appears to be no end in sight to the diabetes epidemic. The number of individuals diagnosed is projected to keep growing over the next decade. What’s more concerning is that 75% of patients don’t meet guideline-based goals for A1C, blood pressure, and cholesterol control. Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to serious complications like heart disease, kidney failure, blindness, and even amputations.
Thankfully, more patients are embracing technology-based
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Addressing Point-of-Care Ultrasound’s Shadow IT Problem
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is taking hold across healthcare, and for good reason. By administering ultrasound technology at the point of care, whether that be the patient’s bedside or an ambulance, POCUS prevents patients from being sent to another facility for imaging or waiting for a radiologist. That, in turn, enables more efficient workflows and faster diagnoses and treatment.
Multiple studies, from The Nurse Practitioner and the Annals of Medicine and Surgery, identify POCUS
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M&A: Accenture Acquires UK Digital Health Firm Nautilus
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- Accenture announced it has acquired Nautilus Consulting, a digital healthcare consultant firm in the U.K. that specializes in Electronic Patient Record (EPR) solutions. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition will enhance Accenture’s digital transformation, implementation, and optimization capabilities across the U.K. and global healthcare space. As part of the acquisition, Nautilus will join Accenture’s Health Strategy
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Walgreens CEO Rosalind Brewer Steps Down, Interim CEO Appointed
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- Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) CEO Rosalind Brewer is stepping down as CEO and a member of the board after only two years, as of August 31, 2023. Roz Brewer served as Chief Executive Officer of WBA since March 2021.
- The Board of Directors has appointed Ginger Graham, current Lead Independent Director of WBA, as the Company’s interim CEO. Ms. Brewer has agreed to continue to advise WBA while the Company conducts a search for a permanent CEO.
Rosalind Brewer
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The Self-Driving Clinical Trial: Optimizing Research with AI and ML
The power and potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the healthcare industry are unparalleled. The use of automated technology systems like digital workflows, orchestration and storing of data digitally is helping to shape their application, enabling far greater personalization of treatment for patients and greater efficiency and speed of clinical trials.
As the amount of health data increases, the possibility of establishing a self-driving clinical trial is
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Banner Health Taps evolvedMD to Bring Behavioral Health to Primary Care Sites in Phoenix
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- Banner Health forms a strategic partnership with Phoenix-based evolvedMD to place mental-health providers at Banner’s primary-care clinics, making it easier for people to receive mental health services they may need.
- The integration of mental health services in primary-care settings will be phased in at Banner Medical Group sites throughout metro Phoenix, starting in the East Valley at Banner’s East Mesa and Queen Creek locations.
- Under the program, a
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Biofourmis’ Founder Steps Down As CEO, Amidst Company Layoffs
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- Biofourmis founder and CEO Kuldeep Singh Rajput has quietly resigned as CEO, according to the company’s spokesperson. The company has appointed private equity investor General Altantic's Ben Wanamaker as interim CEO.
- Rajput’s abrupt exit comes after the Boston-based virtual care and digital medicine company laid off 120 employees.
- Founded in 2015, Biofourmis discovers, develops, and delivers clinically validated software-based therapeutics to provide better
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Viz.ai, UCSF to Commercialize 3 Cardiac AI Algorithms
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- Viz.ai, an AI-powered disease detection and intelligent care coordination has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to commercialize three AI algorithms for the automated detection of cardiovascular diseases.
- Developed at UCSF by leading researchers, these AI algorithms to detect cardiac amyloidosis, pulmonary hypertension, and supraventricular tachycardia are based on analysis of electrocardiograms (ECGs), the
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