ObEN Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) company creating Personal AI (PAI) technology to revolutionize digital interactions announce it is working with MedStar Health Research Institute for a study on the use of Personal AI (PAI) healthcare assistants for patients suffering from heart failure. For the study, ObEN has created a medical health assistant app, called PAI Care, to help monitor patients of heart failure.MedStar Health Heart Disease Study OverviewUnder the direction of the
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Accenture Acquires Ireland-based Life Sciences Firm ESP
Accenture, today announced it is acquiring Enterprise System Partners (ESP), an Ireland-based consulting and manufacturing services provider for the life sciences industry. As part of the acquisition, ESP will join Accenture Industry X.0, which helps clients master the digital reinvention of industry, strengthening Accenture’s capabilities to transform manufacturing for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device clients globally.The combination of ESP’s digitally-enabled manufacturing services
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Microsoft Develops New Chatbot to Match Patients to Clinical Trials Easier
Microsoft has developed a clinical trials chatbot designed to optimize matching patients with appropriate clinical trials, Bloomberg first reports. By using AI-driven machine reading technology to ingest the selection criteria for each clinical trial, the chatbot uses this data to determine which questions to ask patients and matches their answers to suitable clinical trials. The chatbot initially started as a hackathon project at Microsoft’s Corp’s lab in Israel and is part of a larger
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Solve.Care, Lyft Integrate for Blockchain-Enabled Medical Transportation
Solve.Care, Estonia-based healthcare IT startup that’s developed a blockchain platform for coordination, administration, and payments of healthcare, announced integration with ridesharing provider Lyft. The integration will give patients and providers more options and control over non-emergency medical transportation through their Care.Wallet app.Care.Wallet App Integration with LyftCare.Wallet users will be able to schedule their own Lyft rides to doctors’ offices, hospitals, and pharmacies,
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CarynHealth Taps HSBlox’s Blockchain Solution to Power Small Employer Healthcare Marketplace
CarynHealth, the small business association health plan brand of Association Health Plans of America, LLC (“AHPA”), today announced that it has selected HSBSuite from HSBlox to power its “association in the box”, the next-generation approach to the small employer healthcare marketplace. AHPA was formed to meet the breakthrough opportunity provided by the Association Health Plan regulation recently put forth by the U.S. Department of Labor allowing small businesses to group together for health
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Backpack Health & Sticky J Partner to Amplify Medical ID for Emergency Situations
Backpack Health, a cloud-based platform used by people to manage, store and share all of their health information, has partnered with Sticky J to improve its medical ID accessories by engraving a simple URL on it. By wearing designated StickyJ Medical ID accessories engraved with unique URLs that link to their Backpack Health Emergency Share Card, individuals always have their full health records on hand during an emergency or when being admitted to the hospital – and the information is
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Bits In Glass Launches IoT-Driven Smart Home Health Platform
Bits In Glass (BIG), a software consulting firm serving clients across North America is announcing the launch of Manage My Care, a smart home health platform built on Appian. The platform acts as a central portal for health information and supports IoT device integration with off the shelf devices such as blood pressure cuffs. These integrations allow patients to take physiological readings from home and have the data automatically synced to the platform, giving care providers access to
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Mount Sinai Researchers Develop AI Platform to Detect Neurodegenerative Diseases
Mount Sinai researchers have developed an artificial intelligence platform to detect a range of neurodegenerative disease in human brain tissue samples, including Alzheimer’s disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published in the Nature medical journal Laboratory Investigation. Their discovery will help scientists develop targeted biomarkers and therapeutics, resulting in a more accurate diagnosis of
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UVA Health Pilots New Telehealth Programs to Treat Diabetes, Heart Disease
The University of Virginia Health System announced it is expanding and piloting new telehealth initiatives to prevent or manage chronic diseases including diabetes, prediabetes, and heart disease. Delivered through the UVA Center for Telehealth, the virtual care initiatives are supported by a $750k grant from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Virginia Department of Health.Here is a list of the telehealth initiatives:· Remote blood sugar monitoring for type 2 diabetes
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Nutrimedy Named Winner of Boston Scientific Connected Patient Challenge
Boston-based Nutrimedy has been named the winner of the fourth annual Boston Scientific Connected Patient Challenge held by Boston Scientific at Google’s office in Cambridge, MA. The challenge invites innovators from around the world to submit concepts through an online platform where they can receive feedback throughout the fall and early winter until six finalists are selected for a live pitch-off event.This year’s theme, digital health solutions for chronic care, netted some of our most
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