Ambra Health, an NYC cloud-based, medical image management suite has announced the launch of its first mobile app for providers, offering immediate access to medical imaging right in the palm of their hands. Designed with accessibility and ease of viewing in mind, the new Ambra Health app offers healthcare providers an intuitive image viewing experience, fully optimized for mobile viewing.The Ambra app, which was developed in close collaboration with leading providers, allows physicians to
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Why Are Hospitals Still Using CDs to Exchange Medical Images with Patients?
For nearly two decades, CDs have been the primary medium for medical image exchanges between providers and patients. In the mid-1990’s, CDs provided a solution to the point-of-care and transportation issues of bulky, static film and reports. Recent years have brought a widespread adoption of electronic methods for storing and sharing information in the healthcare sector---namely EMR and now interoperability. Despite the rapid (and necessary) adoption of HIT, CDs remain the primary means of
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Garmin, Fitabase Collaboration Enables Researchers to Access Wearable Data
Garmin, today announced a new collaboration with Fitabase that will enable researchers to access data from Garmin wearables via the Fitabase platform, providing curated datasets ideal for deep analysis. Fitabase, a San Diego-based company founded by a team of research experts, has worked with over 150 academic and clinical institutions worldwide on over 500 studies with one singular goal: better research, better results. The Fitabase platform makes it easy to deploy the latest digital health
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Montefiore Health to Create AI-Based Screening Tool to Help Doctors Identify Lung Failure
Funded by a $1.2 million Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality grant, Montefiore Health System is building a new artificial intelligence (AI) screening tool to help doctors better identify and treat acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a deadly, but under-recognized, form of lung failure. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a rapidly progressive disease occurring in critically ill patients.The main complication in ARDS is that fluid leaks into the lungs making breathing
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IDx and Topcon Join Forces to Scale AI-based Diagnostic Platform in the U.S. Market
IDx, an AI diagnostics company, and Topcon, one of the world’s leading ophthalmic device manufacturers, have signed an exclusivity agreement that will allow the companies to scale delivery of AI-based diagnostic solutions in the U.S. market. As part of the agreement, is granted exclusive rights to IDx-DR system, an autonomous AI system that instantly detects diabetic retinopathy in fundus images, exclusively with Topcon NW400, an easy to use, robotic fundus camera. IDx-DR is an FDA-cleared
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Validic Launches Statistics Engine to Drive Population Health Analytics from Patient Generated Health Data
Validic, a Durham, NC-based patient-generated health data integration, and analysis platform, today announced the release of Validic Statistics Engine that will offer new opportunities for patient-generated health data in care delivery and management. The Statistics Engine enables organizations to easily derive individual or population-level trends and anomalies from PGHD. Making Patent-Generated Health Data (PGHD) Actionable for CliniciansBeyond optical character recognition, there are many
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Partners Connected Health Unveils Mobile App for Patients/Provider to Share Patient-Generated Health Data from 250 Devices
Partners Connected Health, today announced the launch of a new patient-facing mobile app that allows patients to easily and securely share patient-generated health data (PGID) with their care team from a larger selection of consumer health devices, including activity trackers, wearables, sensors, and remote monitoring devices. Its VitalSnap feature enables the mobile app to capture personal health data from devices without a free-standing app and non-Bluetooth devices. Launched in 2017,
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How Cloud Connectivity is Driving Medical Device Innovation in 2018 & Beyond
The healthcare industry is facing numerous global challenges in 2018, with ballooning costs, changing payment models and new legislation that routinely changes the relationship between patients, regulators, health care providers and health insurance carriers. With an aging global population and worldwide healthcare spending expected to grow from $7.1 trillion to $8.7 trillion by 2020, new technologies, products, and services in the healthcare space must demonstrate cost-effectiveness while
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Indie Health Integrates Digital Health Devices into Life365’s Telehealth Platform
Indie Health highlighted positive market response for its collaboration with Life365 during the Connected Health conference today, delivering Indie’s highly optimized, standardized and easy-to-integrate Bluetooth Smart digital health devices to Life365's telehealth customers. For 18 months, Indie Health has been the preferred provider of digital health devices for Life365's remote monitoring platform under a preferred partnership.As the founder of MedApps, Dicks pioneered the development of
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DexCom Integrates Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data with Validic Data Connectivity Platform
DexCom, Inc., a provider of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) solutions, announced a partnership with data integration platform Validic. As part of the partnership, DexCom will integrate CGM data from Dexcom’s cloud API is integrated into the Validic’s connectivity platform to establish a multi-measure platform to stream in-home clinical data directly into clinical workflows and systems. This partnership is part of a larger effort to improve the interoperability of clinical systems and provide
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