Repetitive behavioral disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Tic Disorder and Tourette Syndrome have been challenging to treat because they involve considerable complexity. For example, the symptoms of one disorder can vary among individuals as does the coexistence or non-existence of other behavior disorders such as anxiety and depression. Further, the treatment of OCD, Tic Disorder and Tourette Syndrome varies depending on
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Telehealth: Addressing The Mental Health Crisis in Kids
Children in America were increasingly struggling with mental health before COVID-19, but the pandemic compounded an already growing crisis. Today in the U.S., nearly one in five children experience a mental health disorder. What’s just as alarming is that for every five children with a mental health disorder, only one will receive treatment.
In October 2021, leading pediatric healthcare associations declared a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health. This declaration was a
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Ohio Families Receive Free Telehealth Breastfeeding Support via Kettering Health
What You Should Know:
- Families across Ohio can now receive telehealth consultations with lactation professionals at no cost via a partnership between the non-profit health system Kettering Health and Nest Collaborative.
- Nest Collaborative’s International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLCs) will augment Kettering Health’s own lactation program by providing virtual prenatal and postpartum support for new parents 7 days a week.
Nest Collaborative’s Nationwide Network
Nest
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AWS Launches Amazon Omics for Precision Medicine
What You Should Know:
- AWS announced the launch of a new service, Amazon Omics, to help bioinformaticians, researchers, and scientists store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data and generate insights to improve health and advance scientific discoveries.
- The explosion of “omics” data, such as genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data, is driving a new understanding of biology at the molecular level. This, in combination with
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Summer Health Launches Messaging-Based Pediatric Care to Combat the RSV, Flu, and COVID Tripledemic
What You Should Know:
- Summer Health, the first text-based pediatric care provider designed to offer parents support, prescriptions, and referrals within just 15 minutes, today launched free trials to combat the U.S. tripledemic plagued by the rise of RSV, Flu, and COVID cases amongst children.
- Amid a growing pediatric-care crisis that has caused an overflow in emergency rooms and doctor’s offices across the country, Summer Health aims to help relieve the overwhelming burden and be the
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Collective Health Appoints Chief Financial Officer
What You Should Know:
- Collective Health has appointed Chris Newman as its new Chief Financial Officer. Under this leadership, he will be responsible for leading the finance team at Collective Health, while ensuring the company continues to grow in a way that delivers on its brand promise.
Prior to joining Collective Health, Chris served as CFO and Chief Operating Officer for over five years at Rodan + Fields. Over the duration of his career, Chris served as COO and CFO for a number of
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Nuance Announces Strategic Collaborations at RNSA22
What You Should Know:
- Nuance Communications announced a series of strategic partnership announcements at RNSA 2022.
- Nuance announces that Kentucky-based Baptist Health and Pennsylvania-based Einstein Healthcare have joined the Nuance Precision Imaging Network (PIN). The addition of these healthcare systems will empower collaborative care teams with AI-powered insights from diagnostic imaging at the point-of-care.
- Perspectum, a global medical technology company,
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RSNA: Philips Unveils AI-Enhanced Informatics Solutions to Optimize Radiology Workflow
What You Should Know:
- Today at RNSA22, Philips unveils its next-generation Advanced Visualization Workspace, including new cardiac MR Suite with new workflow and user interface, new AI powered CT ASPECT Scoring, and enhanced CT Liver Analysis applications.
- New integrated diagnostic approach connects radiology, cardiology, pathology, and oncology to securely unite data and images across the enterprise, enabling earlier and more definitive diagnosis. Optimized algorithms help speed up
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RSNA: Flywheel Builds Data Platform for Unbiased Breast Imaging AI
What You Should Know:
- Today, at RSNA, Flywheel, a leading data management platform for biomedical research and collaboration announces the creation of a federated data platform for the development of unbiased breast imaging AI.
- Funded in part by the NIH, the federated network will support breast imaging AI research and collaboration—on a scale not previously possible.
Leveraging Flywheel Discovery & Exchange
Two Flywheel technologies underpin the project. Flywheel
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RSNA: NVIDIA Partners With NHS Trusts to Deploy AI Platform in UK Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- A consortium of 10 National Health Service Trusts — the publicly funded healthcare system in England — is now deploying the MONAI-based AIDE platform across four of its hospitals, providing artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled disease-detection tools to healthcare professionals serving 5 million patients a year.
- AIDE, short for AI Deployment Engine, is expected to be rolled out next year across 11 NHS hospitals serving 18 million patients, bringing AI
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