Propeller Health, a digital solution for respiratory medicine has teamed up with Medical International Research (MIR), a global leader in spirometry, oximetry and telemedicine to integrate several of MIR’s mobile and clinical spirometers into the Propeller system. Lung function measurements provide a physiological perspective on diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). With regular assessment, spirometry can help patients and physicians determine whether the
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Tyto Care, American Well to Integrate Telehealth Visits with Remote Exams
Telehealth company American Well has partnered with Israel-based telehealth company Tyto Care to combine telehealth visits with comprehensive remote examinations. As part of the partnership, Tyto Care’s examination platform and clinical exam data will be integrated into American Well’s telehealth platform to offer its customers access to the vast network of healthcare providers using American Well’s platform. Through this integration, patients can replicate an in-office visit and conduct medical
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Lexigram Nabs $2M to Transform Unstructured Medical Data Through NLP
Lexigram, a Redwood City, CA-based clinical data intelligence company has raised $2 million in seed funding led by Storm Ventures and including RTA Ventures and the Stanford-StartX Fund. The digital health startup plans to utilize the seed funding to further mature the company's self-service and on-demand natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning analytics platform. As patients, we imagine that our medical data is readily available to all of our doctors, but that couldn't be farther
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VA, Flow Health To Build AI-Powered Med Knowledge Graph for Veterans
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has signed a five-year deal with San Francisco, CA-based Flow Health to build a medical knowledge graph with deep learning to inform medical decision-making and train artificial intelligence (AI) to personalize care plans. Flow Health is building the world’s largest knowledge graph of medicine and genomics from over 30 petabytes of longitudinal clinical data drawn from VA records on 22 million veterans spanning over 20 years. All patient information
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Orb Health Lands $3.2M for Intelligent Collaborative Care Platform
Orb Health, a Dallas, TX-based provider of collaborative care technology has raised $3.2 million in Series A funding led by Mt Vernon Investments with participation from Green Park & Golf and a number of returning seed investors. The company plans to utilize the funding to expand its intelligent collaborative care platform for physician-owned practices and large health systems. Founded in 2011, Orb Health provides a turnkey solution and service that empowers providers to engage more deeply
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GE, InTouch Health Partner to Use Telehealth in Remote Training for Radiologists
GE Healthcare has partnered with InTouch Health, a provider of FDA-cleared remote presence devices, to help train imaging techs and radiologists to use high-tech imaging devices. It’s an innovative use of telehealth technology that reduces the costs associated with onsite follow-up training, and in a recent pilot, was shown to improve training quality, potentially saving lives. The pilot connected GE experts to healthcare providers in over 200 telepresence classes around the world, successfully
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GE, Boston Children’s Partner to Develop App for Pediatric Brain Scans
Boston Children's Hospital and GE Healthcare has formed a joint venture to develop and commercialize digital health tools to advance the diagnosis and treatment of specific childhood brain diseases. The first project of the collaboration involves developing an app that will improve diagnostic accuracy in pediatric brain scans by providing real-time contextual information at the time and place the radiologist needs it.As part of the collaboration, both organizations will leverage GE Health Cloud
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What Does The Recent Election Mean for Predictive Analytics in Healthcare?
The outcome of the recent election caught many people, and many forecasters, by surprise. How could their predictions have missed the mark so significantly? Granted, there were a number of people who predicted the outcome more accurately, but many of those who used data models to analyze the likely outcome are left now with head-scratching and postmortem analysis in order to improve their methods.In their book Superforecasting, The Art and Science of Prediction, authors Philip Telock and Dan
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Ottawa Hospital Taps SeamlessMD for Bariatric Patient Engagement
The Ottawa Hospital and the Bariatric Medical Institute have partnered with SeamlessMD’s patient engagement platform to extend their support for bariatric surgery patients into its patients’ homes. By using the SeamlessMD platform, the care teams at both The Ottawa Hospital and Bariatric Medical Institute will be able to deliver more coordinated care for their patients while they prepare and recover in the community.The Bariatric Centre of Excellence of The Ottawa Hospital currently performs
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Massachusetts Governor Launches Digital Healthcare Council
Governor Charlie Baker has announced the launch of a Digital Healthcare Council, a comprehensive public-private partnership that will advise the administration on the future of the Commonwealth’s digital healthcare industry. The council convenes leaders across the digital healthcare industry, including technology, healthcare delivery, insurance, medical devices, the life sciences, academia, and government, to advise on ways new digital technologies can improve healthcare in the Commonwealth,
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