Los Angeles-based health system Cedars-Sinai, today announced a new smart hospital room pilot that will allow patients to use an Alexa-powered platform known as Aiva to interact hands-free with nurses and control their entertainment. The aim of the pilot project is to move patient interaction into the 21st century when hospital rooms will need more intelligence and convenience to accommodate changing patient needs."Patients young and old are now used to voice-activated devices in their homes.
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Philips, Microsoft Unveils Augmented Reality Concept for Operating Room of the Future
Health technology company Philips unveiled a unique mixed reality concept developed together with Microsoft Corp. for the operating room of the future. Based on the state-of-the-art technologies of Philips’ Azurion image-guided therapy platform and Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 holographic computing platform, the companies will showcase novel augmented reality applications for image-guided minimally invasive therapies.Image-Guided Minimally Invasive Therapies In contrast to open surgery, minimally
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Report: State of the Global Digital Respiratory Market 2009-2023
The digital respiratory market is still at an emerging stage, with players positioning themselves to be ready when the market will take off, according to Research2Guidance’s “The Global Digital Respiratory Solutions Market 2009-2023” report. The report describes in detail the current digital respiratory market status, digital service offerings, connected devices, service offerings, perceived strategies of key market players, key trends, market barriers, and future revenue streams.In addition,
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Stanford, Proteus Releases 10 Guiding Principles for Ethics in Digital Health
The need for increased protection and better management of personal health data has never been greater than in healthcare today and is without a doubt one of the most important issues of our time. With consumers are using a flurry of tools/applications – it is important that organizations are transparent about how they use consumer data, following ethical principles that everyone understands.That’s why, Proteus worked closely with Michael Keller of the Stanford Libraries and more than
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Propeller Health: 84% of People with Asthma May Be Using Their Inhaler Incorrectly
The vast majority of people with asthma may be using their inhalers incorrectly, potentially making their medicine less effective and increasing their risk of asthma attacks, according to new research published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Traditionally, asthma medicines require that patients take two "puffs" of their inhaler to receive the prescribed dose. Recommended Asthma Inhaler GuidelinesAsthma guidelines and patient instructions for inhaled medications recommend that
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Philips, DispatchHealth Launch On-Demand Home Care Pilot Program for Arizona Seniors
Philips is joining forces on a pilot study with DispatchHealth, a provider of mobile urgent care that delivers convenient, affordable care within one’s home to help enhance care for select Arizona members of Mercy Care. DispatchHealth supports seniors wishing to stay in their homes longer by providing a preventative and proactive treatment where and when seniors need it to help avoid elevating health situations to costly emergency medical services (EMS) and to avoid unnecessary trips to
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ICON Acquires Precision Medicine for Oncology Company MolecularMD
ICON, a global provider of drug development solutions and services has acquired MolecularMD, a molecular diagnostic specialty laboratory that enables the development and commercialization of precision medicines in oncology. The acquisition of MolecularMD’s extensive scientific and clinical biomarker experience expands the ICON’s capabilities in molecular diagnostic testing and also adds expanded testing platforms, including next-generation sequencing and immunohistochemistry, to ICON’s
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HIMSS19 Agrees – 2019 Will be a Big Year for Telehealth
Telehealth has been a key theme at HIMSS for several years now; that said, it has never quite lived up to its own hype and to some extent has been viewed as a “niche” area compared to some of its bigger brothers such as EHR and population health. The back-end of 2018 and start of 2019 saw developments that are likely to change this in the near future.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated several of its guidance models and the 2019 physician fee schedule in relation to
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Study: VR-AI Therapy Cuts Night Flashes in Half for Cancer Patients
A new clinical study from VRHealth cites that breast cancer patients reduced hot flashes and night sweats by 50% using VR-AI therapy coaching environment. In addition, study participants reported significant improvements in their sleep quality and fewer disruptions to their daily lives following a three-week experiment with the VR solution. VRHealth is a digital health company focused on helping clinicians better manage their patients' care via specialized virtual reality (VR) technology
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Dosis Expands AI-Powered Strategic Anemia Advisor to 50 Clinics
Dosis, a San Francisco, CA-based developer of the Strategic Anemia Advisor (SAA) decision support tool, announced today that it has expanded its AI-powered personalized dosing platform to support to 50 dialysis clinics and 5,000 patients across the country. More than 550,000 End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients in the U.S. are currently undergoing dialysis treatment across the country, and the vast majority of those patients experience chronic anemia that requires dosing
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