As the concept of digital healthcare goes global, healthcare stakeholders across geographies are evaluating new tools, while innovators are navigating pathways to implement advanced technologies into healthcare. Over the past decade, the European healthcare system has progressed leaps and bounds.
However, the sector is bound by some major challenges including the aging population, greater prevalence of chronic diseases, shortage of healthcare workers, and financial discrepancies of care. In
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Netherlands Hospital Deploys Contact-Free Continuous Monitoring for COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- MedTech developer EarlySense announced that Netherlands hospital Franciscus Gasthuis & Vlietland has implemented contact-free continuous monitoring in its expanded pulmonary department to remotely monitor isolated COVID-19 patients and limit exposure of health staff.
- EarlySense continues to offer its solution to additional hospitals and skilled nursing facilities to assist in the global battle against coronavirus.
EarlySense,
a provider of
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Machine Learning Will Transform Medicine, but Only if We Use it Right
World chess champion Garry Kasparov made headlines all over the world in 1997 for something that he probably wasn’t very excited about. He lost a chess match. To a computer.
It was an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue and its victory in that New York City match marked the first time a reigning world chess champion had been defeated by a computer under tournament conditions. It was also a symbolically significant event, the first sign that artificial intelligence could become equal to or even
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Intel, UPenn Form AI Initiative to Identify Brain Tumors via Secure Data
What You Should Know:
- To coincide with brain tumor awareness month in May, today Intel and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) announced an NIH-funded program that uses AI to identify brain tumors while protecting patient data.
- Funded by the National Institutes of Health, UPenn and these health care institutions will use Intel’s federated learning technology to produce a new AI model that is trained on the largest brain tumor dataset to
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Mount Sinai Deploys Google Nest Cameras for Nurses to Communicate & Monitor COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- Mount Sinai deploys Google Nest cameras across the system to help patients with COVID-19 that will enhance the safety of patients and staff, as well as reducing PPE demands.
- Google Nest partnered with Mount Sinai in April to pilot the console in a hospital setting as the virus reached peak levels in New York City.
The Mount Sinai
Health System has teamed up with Google Nest
to use the latest in video and audio technologies to monitor some of the
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State of Connecticut Launches of Livongo for Diabetes Management Program through State Health Plan
What You Should Know:
- Connecticut state Comptroller Kevin Lembo announces the launch of Livongo for Diabetes Management Program through the state health plan to deliver estimated annual savings to the state of approximately $3 million.
- The program, launched in partnership with CVS Caremark and Livongo, is projected to significantly improve health care outcomes for thousands of people with diabetes covered by the state plan by providing them with comprehensive around-the-clock live
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New Coin-Size Disposable Wearable Medical Device Enables COVID-19 Symptom Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- As the government guides state re-openings, digital health startup BioIntelliSense announced the newest advancements of its medical-grade biosensor solution portfolio and Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform.
- The company’s new COVID-19 Return to Work and School solution generates a more reliable clinical assessment of an individual’s infectious risk status through home-based screening tools and data-driven clearance
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COVID-19 Crisis: Only 27% of Nurses Have Enough PPE for May
What You Should Know:
- New survey data From NurseFly reveals more than 50% Of nurses are dissatisfied with the level of resources and training from hospitals battling the COVID-19 crisis.
- Only 27% of nurses noted that their hospital has an adequate amount of PPE for them to conduct their job for the next month.
NurseFly, a temporary
healthcare staffing technology platform, released a new round of findings from
a national survey of 1,380+ nurses
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HHS Awards $12.2M to Expand COVID-19 Testing in Georgia
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awards $12.M to expand COVID-19 testing across 35 health centers in Georgia.
- HRSA-funded health centers will use this funding to expand the range of testing and testing-related activities to best address the needs of their local communities.
Today, the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), awarded $12,280,445 to 35 health
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LetsGetChecked Nabs $71M for Direct-to-Consumer At-Home Health Testing
LetsGetChecked, a leading direct-to-consumer at-home health testing and insights
company, today announced the closing of $71 million in its Series C round of
financing co-led by Illumina Ventures and HLM Venture Partners. The round also
includes new investors Deerfield, CommonFund Capital, and Angeles Investments
and existing investors Transformation Capital, Optum Ventures, and Qiming
Venture Partners USA. Nick Naclerio, Founding Partner at Illumina Ventures and
Steven Tolle, Partner at HLM
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