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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Cone Health, Helix Launches 5-Year Population Genomics Testing Initiative
What You Should Know:
- Cone Health, a non-profit healthcare network in North Carolina, and Helix, a population genomics company, have partnered to launch a five-year research study that will enroll and track 100,000 healthy people.
- The study will use Helix's population genomics platform to provide medical insights for Cone Health patients and help identify people at risk for certain diseases and conditions.
Study Enrollment & Benefits
Enrollment in the program is optional and
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Artera, Hyro Launches AI-Powered Virtual Assistant
What You Should Know:
- Artera, a digital health leader in patient communications, has introduced Artera Care Assist, powered by Hyro, an AI-powered adaptive communications solution.
- Artera Care Assist is a web-virtual assistant that can be deployed on a healthcare providers website, in as little as 48 hours, to answer common patient questions 24/7.
- Patient inquiries including questions around locating providers with specific qualifications and language skills, or finding nearby
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Eleos Health Secures $40M for AI-Powered Behavioral Health
What You Should Know:
- Eleos Health, a leader in AI for behavioral health, has secured $40M in a Series B funding round. Menlo Ventures led the funding round, with participation from F-Prime Capital, Eight Roads, Arkin Digital Health, SamsungNEXT, ION, aMoon, and lool ventures. This brings Eleos Health's total funding to $68M.
- The funding will accelerate Eleos Health's product development, hiring efforts, reach, and strategic partnership development.
CareOps Automation for Behavioral
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Generative AI Takes on Cardiology Care Gaps in Agamon Health and Mayo Clinic Collaboration
What You Should Know:
- Agamon Health, a healthcare technology company, is collaborating with Mayo Clinic to use Generative AI and workflow automation to improve patient adherence to follow-up in cardiology.
- Delayed or insufficient follow-up care for patients with valvular heart disease can have severe consequences, such as increased hospitalization, worsening heart failure, and death. Agamon Coordinate seeks to "close the loop" on follow-up recommendations and improve patient health
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Cercle Launches AI-Powered Biomedical Graph for Fertility & Women’s Healthcare
What You Should Know:
Cercle, an AI technology company unlocking comprehensive and secure data insights for the healthcare industry, announced its launch today. Its technology platform, the Cercle™ Biomedical Graph, is the first and only of its kind, harnessing and connecting billions of anonymized biomedical and genomics data points drawn securely from healthcare clinics and research labs around the world.When channeled through the Cercle™ Biomedical Graph, these data points become a
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Emory Launches AI Health Institute to Improve Health Equity & Patient Outcomes
What You Should Know:
- Emory University has launched the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute as part of its AI.Humanity initiative to leverage AI and big data to transform healthcare globally.
- The institute aims to use AI to discern patterns in health data, make predictions, and improve patient health outcomes in diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and more.
Precision Medicine Delivered with Empathy
Emory AI.Health aims to mitigate bias in AI-driven precision
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Philips Expands AI-Guided Ultrasound Capabilities with Bill & Melinda Gates Investment
What You Should Know:
- Philips has secured a second round of funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate global adoption of AI algorithms on its Lumify Handheld Ultrasound. The second round of funding brings a total of $60M from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
- The AI technology simplifies key measurements to identify abnormalities during pregnancy, significantly reducing the training time required for ultrasound use from weeks to hours.
New
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AppliedVR Releases Clinical Trial Results from In-Home Virtual Reality Program for Chronic Lower Back Pain
What You Should Know:
- AppliedVR, an immersive therapeutics pioneer, conducted a large randomized controlled trial (RCT) on virtual reality (VR) therapy for treating chronic low back pain (CLBP) at home.
- Results of the study were published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health and demonstrated that AppliedVR's RelieVRx program produced clinically meaningful improvements in adults with CLBP.
- AppliedVR aims to provide a non-pharmacological and non-invasive approach to treating
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