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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Intermountain, Vynca Partner to Prioritize and Digitize Advance Care Planning
What You Should Know:
- Intermountain Healthcare collaborates with Vynca, a national leader in advance care planning solutions to prioritize and digitize advance care planning.
- The
collaboration enables integrated digital completion workflows and establishes a
single, centralized source of truth with built-in error prevention – enabling
the Intermountain Healthcare team to honor patients’ end-of-life
wishes, avoid unwanted healthcare utilization and reduce
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Remote Medical Documentation Startup Augmedix Closes $25M, Reverse Merger with Malo Holding
What You Should Know:
- Augmedix closes $25 million in private placement
funding and completion of a reverse merger transaction with Malo Holdings Corp.
- Following the transaction, the merged entity will be
named "Augmedix, Inc.", and will continue the historic and innovative
business of Augmedix.
Augmedix, a company
specializing in providing remote medical documentation and live clinical
support services, today announced the closing of a $25 million private
placement
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Intermountain to Deploy AI-Powered Digital Assistants Across Clinically Integrated Network
What You Should Know:
- Intermountain Healthcare announced it will scale
Notable’s AI-driven platform across the health system’s clinically integrated
network to support thousands of providers, automate administrative workflows,
streamline the check-in experience for patients, and simplify provider
follow-up.
- The Notable Platform uses intelligent automation to identify and engage more patients in need of care and enables staff and clinicians to better serve patients by eliminating
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AWS, PHDA Collaborate to Develop Breast Cancer Screening and Depression Machine Learning Models
What You Should Know:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) announce a collaboration to produce more accurate machine learning models for breast cancer screening and depression.
- In work funded through the PHDA-AWS collaboration, a research team led by Shandong Wu, an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Radiology, is using deep-learning systems to analyze mammograms in order to predict the short‐term risk of developing
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