According to the Edelman Trust Barometer, America is suffering from a serious trust issue, and one of the areas which Americans seem to have the least faith in is their healthcare system. According to a recent New York Times article, in 1966, more than three-fourths of Americans had great confidence in medical practitioners, compared to as little as 34 percent today.Many argue that the US healthcare system is deeply flawed and is designed to benefit medical providers and insurance carriers
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Nuance Launches AI-powered Radiology Reporting Platform, PowerScribe One
Nuance announced the introduction of PowerScribe One, a radiology reporting platform that harnesses Nuance’s advanced natural language understanding capabilities and cloud technology at RNSA18. The PowerScribe One platform delivers AI-powered diagnostic and decision-support tools to improve radiologists’ workflow efficiency and accuracy, ultimately advancing disease detection, diagnosis, and treatment.PowerScribe One OverviewPowerScribe One is the next generation of the industry’s most widely
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Study: Artificial Intelligence May Fall Short for Data Analysis Across Multiple Health Systems
A study reveals artificial intelligence must be carefully tested across multiple environments before being put into clinical practice.Artificial intelligence (AI) tools trained to detect pneumonia on chest X-rays suffered significant decreases in performance when tested on data from outside health systems, according to a new study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published in a special issue of PLOS Medicine on machine learning and healthcare. These findings
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Medtronic Acquires Nutrino Health to Integrate Diabetes Capabilities with Nutritional Data
Medtronic acquires Nutrino Health to augment diabetes capabilities with Nutrino’s nutritional database and data science. Medtronic, a provider of medical technology announced it will acquire Tel Aviv-based Nutrino Health, a provider of nutrition-related data services, analytics, and technologies. For Medtronic, the acquisition is an opportunity to improve clinical outcomes for people with diabetes through the integration of Nutrino’s extensive food analysis infrastructure, nutrition science
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Why Hospitals Are the Ideal “Garage” for MedTech Startups
In 1796, when smallpox was truly a world epidemic, Dr. Edward Jenner inoculated his gardener’s son with a vaccine derived from another patient’s cowpox blister. At the time, the disease was killing 10 percent of the population. While other treatments for smallpox existed, it was Jenner’s that could be easily replicated around the world. And in hindsight, we know that a key factor in Jenner’s development of the vaccine was his access to patients, his scientific knowledge and his passion to heal.
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Wake Forest Baptist Health Launches Tele-ICU Services for Real-Time Clinical Data
Wake Forest Baptist Health, an academic medical center and healthcare system based in Winston-Salem, NC has announced the launch of tele-ICU services at three hospitals within the health system through Advanced ICU Care. Advanced ICU Care’s high-acuity telemedicine services treat more ICU patients and save more lives than any other independent tele-ICU provider in the nation. Tele-ICU Services Supports ICU Care Delivery at System HospitalsWake Forest Baptist Health’s ICUs will be monitored
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RenalytixAI Lands $29M for AI-Driven Kidney Disease Diagnosis Platform, Will Launch Product with Mount Sinai in 2019
RenalytixAI, an NYC-based developer of artificial intelligence-enabled clinical diagnostics for kidney disease, today announced it raised $29 million in funding to support the development and commercialization of two product categories for the early detection of kidney disease and accurate management of kidney transplant rejection. Following the successful completion of its fundraising on November 6, 2018, RenalytixAI started trading publicly on AIM, a market of the London Stock Exchange. Kidney
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Teladoc Health, USC Launch 5-Year Virtual Care Prescribing Study
Virtual care provider Teladoc Health is teaming up the University of Southern California (USC) Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics and Northwestern University, to launch a large-scale study to assess antibiotic prescribing practices in telehealth. With concerted proactive initiatives in place, including both provider and member education programs, prescribing rates fall at or below the industry average. Researchers will now look to build on this work, accessing the organization’s
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UCSF Launches SUGAR Clinical Trial Study to Compare Livongo’s Diabetes Management Program to Standard Diabetes Care
Applied Health Signals company Livongo Health, today announced the launch of the Study to Understand Gaining Access to Blood Glucose Records (SUGAR), or SUGAR study, a randomized controlled trial in collaboration with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). The aim of the clinical trial is to measure the impact of the Livongo for Diabetes program compared to the average standard of care approach to diabetes management utilizing a traditional Bluetooth glucose meter. SUGAR Study
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How Marin General Hospital Adopts “Virtual Presence” to Transform the Patient Experience
Mark Zielazinski, CTO at Marin General Hospital shares how their organization is integrating "virtual presence" in the in-hospital setting - allowing patients, providers, and caregivers to clearly communicate and improve clinical outcomes.Telemedicine has resulted in money-saving efficiencies to hospital operations, improved patient safety, and given more people access to healthcare service among other benefits. In use for a number of years, it’s here to stay as a vital tool in patient care.At
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