Kyruus has announced a collaboration with IBM to integrate Watson Virtual Agent with Kyruus’ ProviderMatch to allow health systems to leverage chatbots to effectively match patients with appropriate providers and enable self-service scheduling. By enabling patients to engage with an AI-powered virtual agent (chatbot), patients will be able to easily and quickly find the best provider for their needs and then schedule an appointment at their convenience, with the click of a button. Kyruus &
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HP Launches All-in-One Laptops and Clinical Displays for Healthcare
At HIMSS18, HP Inc. unveiled a cutting-edge lineup of healthcare devices specifically designed to address the next generation of patient care. The HP Healthcare Edition portfolio includes ultra-slim notebook, All-in-One, and premium clinical review display purpose-built for healthcare.Drawing on HP’s deep customer insights and its culture of innovation, the HP Healthcare Edition portfolio was thoughtfully designed to deliver safer, smarter, and secured features specific to the healthcare
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Biotricity Releases Mobile Cardiac Telemetry Solution
Biotricity today announced the commercial availability of Bioflux, a real-time, high-precision mobile cardiac telemetry solution for customers. The Bioflux system, which received final FDA approval in December, is a complete solution for cardiac monitoring and diagnosis, consisting of the Bioflux device, proprietary software, and a 24/7 monitoring center that merges seamlessly with physicians’ existing platforms and workflows.The Bioflux system is a complete solution for cardiac monitoring and
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HIMSS Acquires Health Innovation Consulting Provider Healthbox
HIMSS has announced the acquisition of Healthbox, a Chicago-based healthcare innovation consulting firm and venture capital investment manager. For HIMSS, the acquisition of Healthbox adds health innovation consulting and fund management to its broader portfolio.Under terms of the agreement, Healthbox will continue to operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of HIMSS. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.Healthbox has evolved from a healthcare accelerator to an innovation
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Uber Launches Uber Health, an On-Demand Medical Transportation Service for Patients
Uber, today announced the launch of Uber Health, a HIPAA-compliant service that lets health providers book rides for patients. According to the Transit Cooperative Research Program, a federally funded independent research entity, the non-medical-emergency medical transportation market is worth more than $3 billion.With Uber Health, coordinators can schedule rides on behalf of patients, caregivers and staff to take place immediately, within a few hours, or up to 30 days in advance. This allows
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Precision Health AI Launches Oncology AI Platform Driven by EMR Dataset
Precision Health AI, a healthcare technology company focused on the application of artificial intelligence to cancer care, today announced the launch of the Eureka Health Oncology AI Platform. The 60+ set of pre-trained AI solution modules will utilize Precision Health AI’s proprietary data to predict a patient’s cancer stage, treatment journey, flow through the healthcare system and survival rate.Driving the new Eureka Health Oncology AI platform is Precision Health AI’s deep, longitudinal
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Boston Children’s Hospital Powers Pediatric Patients with Virtual Reality to Visualize Their Insides
Boston Children’s Hospital and Klick Health, today unveiled a virtual reality (VR) platform to bring patients’ individual medical findings to life in an immersive, 3D environment. The proof of concept VR platform named HealthVoyager is a medical education and patient experience platform. The first iteration of the tool, HealthVoyager™ GI, has been designed for pediatric gastrointestinal (GI) patients and is being used at Boston Children’s as part of a clinical study to validate its effect on
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Cardiac Monitoring Startup Eko Devices Raises $5M to Bring Intelligence to Heart Sounds
Eko, a San Francisco, CA-based platform of non-invasive cardiac screening devices, care coordination software, and machine learning algorithms has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by ARTIS Ventures. The round also included participation from Strategic Partners, Dreamlt Ventures, 1812 Ventures, and FOUNDER.org. Eko plans to utilize the funding to accelerate its commercial team and to expand clinical studies on the use of Eko's platform for valvular heart disease screening and heart
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Why Artificial Intelligence Could Fail Healthcare Providers in 2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds tremendous potential to transform care delivery by automating, augmenting and amplifying human labor in repetitive cognitive tasks. Just like any tool, however, it can be leveraged with improper or incomplete strategies and create more harm than good. This harm translates not only into mistakes that can impact an organization's bottom line, but also the lives of the patients that the organization serves.As we approach the start of HIMSS 2018 we can expect to
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Mayo Clinic Partners With Orbita to Transform Patient Journey Through Voice First Experience
Orbita, Inc., a provider of digital experience management solutions for voice and conversational AI technologies in health and wellness applications, and Mayo Clinic have formed a relationship to deliver Mayo Clinic health and wellness content to help transform the patient journey through education, engagement and improved quality of care. The partnership between Orbita’s powerful voice platform and Mayo’s leading content gives organizations the ability to reach, engage and empower audiences in
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