The healthcare industry is known for holding on to data – and for good reason. With valuable insights and patterns to be derived from patient information, more is more. Where healthcare IT departments run into issues is when this data becomes unmanageable: disorganized and siloed and partially stored in dusty offices with the rest sitting exposed on outdated legacy systems. My point? With more than 30 percent of the world’s data generated by healthcare systems, it’s growing impossible for
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Amazon Prime Launches One Medical Healthcare for $9 a Month
What You Should Know:
- Amazon Prime members can now get high-quality, convenient care from One Medical for $99 per year, saving $100 on the annual membership fee. The new One Medical membership covers unlimited access to 24/7 on-demand virtual care and in-person and remote primary care services.
- Prime members can add up to five additional memberships, each costing just $6 per month (or $66 annually—up to $133 off the standard fee). Prime members can go to health.amazon.com/prime to add
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Elucid Raises $80M to Drive Commercialization of AI-powered Cardiovascular Diagnostic Tools
What You Should Know:
- Elucid, a medical technology company providing AI-powered imaging analysis software to assess cardiovascular disease, has raised $80M in Series C funding led by Elevage Medical Technologies, with additional participation from industry strategics and existing investors.
- This funding will enable Elucid to expand its commercialization efforts, providing physicians and patients with AI-powered imaging analysis software to assess and combat cardiovascular
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RapidAI Receives FDA Clearance for Rapid SDH (Subdural Hematoma) for Trauma Care
What You Should Know:
- RapidAI has received FDA clearance for Rapid SDH, its AI-powered module for the detection and notification of suspected hemispheric acute and chronic subdural hematoma.
- The need for the RapidAI solution is urgent, with SDH cases in US patients expected to increase by nearly 80% before 2040.
AI Module for Detection of Hemispheric Subdural Hematomas
Rapid SDH leverages AI to help neurocritical care teams identify suspected hemispheric subdural hemorrhage
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AccurKardia Brings ECG Software to Lucem Health’s AI Platform
What You Should Know:
- AccurKardia, an ECG-led diagnostics software company, has announced a multi-year agreement with Lucem Health, a leading provider of clinical AI solutions.
- The partnership will allow AccurKardia to integrate its FDA-cleared ECG interpretation software platform, AccurECG, into Lucem Health's Reveal family of solutions, which identify patients who may be at higher risk of severe or chronic diseases.
Automated ECG Interpretation Cloud-Based Software
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Enterprise Health Launches GPT-Driven AI-Assistant for Occupational Health Solution
What You Should Know:
- Enterprise Health, a provider of occupational and employee health software solutions announced the launch of its new AI assistant, Wellby. The primary focus of Wellby is to improve the clinical user experience and complement clinical judgment.
- Wellby uses GPT technology based on the OpenAI HIPAA-compliant platform to automate time-consuming clerical tasks and provide improved clinical decision support.
Functionality Helps Clinicians Shift Focus Back to
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Forum Launches with $5M for Virtual Peer Support Groups to Help People Navigate Life’s Challenges
What You Should Know:
- Forum, a peer support group marketplace, has officially launched with $5.3M in funding from a seed round led by NextView Ventures and featuring participation from MBX Capital, Cue Ball Capital, Sahil Bloom of SRB Ventures, Romeen Sheth, Shaan Puri and City Light Capital..
- Forum connects mission-driven facilitators with individuals seeking support for various life challenges.
Virtual Support Group Marketplace Forum
The platform offers a range of support
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What it Will Take To Trust Healthcare AI Models?
As ChatGPT and similar Large Language Model (LLM) tools gather and organize data in responses, it’s important to understand how the data they use has been curated. Medical science is constantly evolving, with previously accepted conclusions and standards being supplanted by newer information. Yet the outdated and sometimes disproven body of literature is often still quite large.
For example, external carotid to internal carotid (EC/IC) bypass for cerebral ischemia due to cerebrovascular
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How AI Can Help with Patient Self-Scheduling
As every patient knows, scheduling a doctor’s appointment can be a real nightmare. Patients are exasperated with irritating phone menus, endless wait times, and cumbersome scheduling procedures. Meanwhile, healthcare staff are drowning in relentless scheduling calls and laborious booking procedures that leave them exhausted and burnt out.
Clearly, the current system isn’t working for anybody. Healthcare facilities are aware of the problem, but many struggle to do anything about it.
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ReflexAI Launches AI Tool to Prevent Veteran Suicide
What You Should Know:
ReflexAI, the leading provider of AI-powered training and quality assurance tools for crisis response, emergency dispatch, and healthcare organizations, launched HomeTeam, a digital training tool that teaches veterans how to support each other with mental health challenges.Developed with support from Google.org, the free platform includes educational modules that cover high-priority topics in mental health support, followed by AI-powered chat simulations that enable
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