What You Should Know:
- Axuall, a Cleveland, OH-based workforce intelligent network that enables healthcare providers to share their authenticated credentials and qualifications in real-time has raised $10.4M in Series A funding led by Flare Capital Partners. The round also included participation from co-investors Intermountain Ventures, University Hospitals Ventures, MedStar Health, Epsilon Health, InHealth Ventures, AV8 Ventures, JumpStart, M25 Ventures, and North Coast Ventures.
-
Read More
Digital Health | News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Solve.Care Launches the First Open Global Blockchain Telehealth Network in 20 Countries
What You Should Know:
-Solve.Care, the blockchain healthcare platform that is redefining the way healthcare is administered, has announced the launch of the first blockchain enabled tele-consultation network, Global Telehealth Exchange (GTHE), in 20 countries across Europe, Americas, Asia, Africa, Middle East, and Oceania with plans for further global expansion to cover almost all other countries.
- GTHE is a secure, peer-to-peer, decentralized network that facilitates teleconsultation
Read More
Ohio Hospital Selects Hicuity Health for Tele-ICU and Telemetry Services
What You Should Know:
- Knox Community Hospital has selected Hicuity Health to provide both tele-ICU and cardiac telemetry services. Hicuity Health is well-positioned to address the hospital’s multiple care needs and enables the facility to expand access to critical care within the community while also supporting Knox clinical staff as they address the around-the-clock challenges of critical care.
- By partnering
Read More
Philips, Cognizant Partner to Develop Digital Health Solutions to Providers, Researchers and Patients
What You Should Know:
- Cognizant and Phillips announced a strategic collaboration to develop digital health solutions intended to improve patient care and accelerate the clinical trials process by increasing connectivity across patients, providers and clinical researchers.
- The strategic alliance brings together Philips HealthSuite, a cloud-based platform and Cognizant’s digital engineering expertise
Read More
Zebra-Med Becomes First Company to Receive AI CPT Code for Radiology
What You Should Know:
- Zebra Medical Vision announces it has received the first-ever AI CPT code for radiology, for its VCF detection from CT scans for Population Health, setting a new standard for CPT codes in imaging AI, as the company has successfully done with FDA clearances for its algorithms.
- The new CPT III code was submitted to the AMA’s CPT Editorial Panel, by the American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America, American Roentgen Ray Society, and the
Read More
NVIDIA Launches UK’s Fastest AI Supercomputer for Healthcare Research
What You Should Know:
- NVIDIA launched the UK’s fastest supercomputer -- Cambridge-1, the world’s first collaborative, industry-wide system dedicated to accelerating healthcare and digital biology research using powerful combination of AI and simulation.
- At the virtual inauguration, NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang discussed what NVIDIA’s $100 million investment will mean for the UK. He said the system will enable research breakthroughs at a scale and speed previously impossible with
Read More
“The Doctor Will See You Now” and Other Things Patients Won’t Hear Post-COVID
Following a year of social distancing and strict lockdowns, patients were forced to fundamentally change the way they interacted with their physicians. By April of last year, about half of patients’ primary care visits were conducted virtually.
And thanks to the emergency relaxation of regulations from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to accommodate remote diagnostics, medical device companies spurred on by tech from software giants like Microsoft and Intel, came up with innovative
Read More
6 Key Ethical Principles for The Use of AI for Health – WHO
- The World Health Organization (WHO) launched its first ever global report on: Ethics and governance of artificial intelligence for health.
- While new technologies that use artificial intelligence hold great promise to improve diagnosis, treatment, health research and drug development and to support governments carrying out public health functions, including surveillance and outbreak response, such technologies, according to the report, must put ethics and human rights at the
Read More
4 Strategies for Health IT Leaders to Streamline Their Work & Serve Patients
As a physician turned entrepreneur, I’ve learned many lessons in my journey from the patient bedside to the health IT boardroom. As a young physician practicing in my native Denmark, my eyes were opened to the administrative headaches and limited engagement that was a result of too much paperwork and not enough focus on the patient.
Since launching one of the world’s first patient portals in 2001 and subsequently moving to the US and founding my current digital health company in 2015, I’ve
Read More
Cortica Raises $60M to Expand Comprehensive Autism Care Model Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- Cortica, Inc. ("Cortica"), a San Diego, CA-based tech-enabled clinical services for autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions, announced it has raised $60 million in financing to further its mission to transform autism care. The funding was led by Longitude Capital with participation from new investors .406 Ventures and Adam Boehler, along with existing investors Questa Capital and Aperture Venture Partners. Silicon Valley Bank also participated by expanding
Read More
