What You Should Know:
- IBM Watson Health launches IBM Digital Health Pass solution that will allow individuals to verify their health status while maintaining complete control of their personal health data.
Today at HLTH VRTL 2020, IBM Watson Health announced plans to launch IBM Digital Health Pass, which is being designed to help support organizations as they return individuals to a physical location, such as a workplace, school, stadium or airline flight. The new solution is powered
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UCSF, Fortanix, Intel, Microsoft Team Up to Accelerate Development of Clinical AI Algorithms by 1000X
What You Should Know:
- UCSF, in partnership with Fortanix, Intel, and Microsoft, will announce BeeKeeperAI, a Privacy-Preserving Analytics Platform that will accelerate the development of clinical AI algorithms by 1000X (from 30 months to 1 day).
- This will help get life-saving clinical applications to
all patients faster, such as predicting the need for blood transfusions or
detecting tumors on X-rays, while maintaining patient privacy using
Confidential Computing technology.
UC
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Comcast Spinoff Quil Unveils Home-Based Sensor Network for Seniors
What You Should Know:
- Comcast spinoff Quil announces its entry into the
senior market -- via integrated sensor-based home monitoring.
- Quil plans to launch Quil Assure to consumers by the
third quarter of 2021 following a series of pilots beginning this December.
Today, Quil Engage is available to consumers via partnering providers and
health plans.
Quil—the healthcare
joint venture of Comcast NBCUniversal and Independence Health
Group—announced plans to
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GuideWell to Offer Livongo for Diabetes to Florida Blue Members
What You Should Know:
- GuideWell partners with Livongo to provide Florida Blue
Members an end-to-end consumer-centric virtual care experience.
- Florida Blue will become one of the first health plans to provide health consumers with a single access point for whole-person care through Livongo and Teladoc’s best-in-class combined care experience.
Livongo,
the leading Applied Health Signals company empowering people with chronic
conditions to live better and healthier lives, today
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Orbita Launches OrbitaENGAGE to Help Providers Curate Their Digital Front Door Strategy
What You Should Know:
- OrbitaENGAGE now supports new proactive campaigns and connections between healthcare providers and their patients, improving access to care, and increasing new patient acquisition.
Orbita, a Boston, MA-based provider of HIPAA-compliant conversational voice and chat solutions for healthcare and life sciences organizations, announced today the expansion of its solution offerings in response to the changing landscape in healthcare, particularly in the age of
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Cleveland Clinic Names Top 10 Medical Innovations For 2021
Cleveland Clinic’s top clinicians and researchers present the top 10 medical innovations transforming medical advancements and new awards to recognize healthcare innovation.
The list of breakthrough technologies was selected by a committee of Cleveland Clinic subject matter experts, led by Will Morris, M.D., executive medical director for Cleveland Clinic Innovations, and Akhil Saklecha, M.D., managing director of Cleveland Clinic Ventures.
Here is a look at the top 10 medical
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Apple Rolls Out Health Records on iPhone to the UK, Canada
Today, Apple announced
the Health Records feature within the Health app is now available for users in
the UK and Canada to securely view and store their medical records right on
their iPhone, with their privacy protected at all times. Oxford University
Hospitals and Women’s College Hospital has been selected the first healthcare
institutions in the UK and Canada to make this feature available to their
patients.
How Health Records Works
Health Records creates a direct connection between
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Butterfly Network Launches Mobile, Whole-Body Ultrasound with Integrated Telehealth Platform
What You Should Know:
- Butterfly
Network launched its next-gen ultrasound product, the new Butterfly iQ+
featuring the world’s only Ultrasound-on Chip™ technology and announced a
landmark collaboration with the American College of Cardiology (ACC).
Butterfly Network,
Inc., today announced the launch of its next-gen ultrasound product, the
new Butterfly iQ+, the world’s only single-probe, whole-body
ultrasound system that connects to a mobile device and features
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Virta Adds Prediabetes and Obesity Reversal to Services
What You Should Know:
- Virta is expanding its suite of treatment options to
include prediabetes reversal, obesity reversal, and type 2 diabetes management.
- By making this crucial expansion, Virta can scale its
treatment to support the tens of millions of additional patients with
prediabetes and obesity, as provide an on-ramp to reversal for those with T2D
that aren’t yet ready to reverse.
Virta Health, the
leader in type 2 diabetes reversal, today introduced the addition
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Cigna’s Evernorth Expands Digital Health Formulary with Addition of Omada MSK by Physera
What You Should Know:
- Cigna Corporation’s health services segment, Evernorth expands
its digital health formulary with the addition of Omada MSK by Physera.
- Omada MSK by Physera joins Omada’s existing formulary
programs for diabetes prevention, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension.
Cigna Corporation’s health
services segment Evernorth today announced
the expansion of its industry-first Digital Health Formulary,
adding Omada Health’s program for at-home physical therapy and
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