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Lexigram Nabs $2M to Transform Unstructured Medical Data Through NLP

by Fred Pennic 11/30/2016 Leave a Comment

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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

by HITC Staff 11/30/2016 Leave a Comment

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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

by Fred Pennic 11/29/2016 Leave a Comment

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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

by Jasmine Pennic 11/29/2016 Leave a Comment

InTouch Health Acquires AcuteCare Telemedicine

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

by Jasmine Pennic 11/29/2016 Leave a Comment

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?

by Robert Rowley MD 11/29/2016 1 Comment

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

by HITC Staff 11/28/2016 Leave a Comment

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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

by HITC Staff 11/23/2016 Leave a Comment

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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Mount Sinai Researchers Use Computer Algorithms to Diagnose HCM

by Jasmine Pennic 11/23/2016 Leave a Comment

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Computer algorithms can automatically interpret echocardiographic images and distinguish between pathological hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and physiological changes in athletes’ hearts, according to researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) published online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.The team included researchers from both Dr. Sengupta’s and Dr. Dudley’s labs, including medical student Sukrit Narula, Khader Shameer, PhD, and Alaa Mabrouk
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Theranos Competitor Genalyte Nabs $35M for One-Drop Blood Test

by HITC Staff 11/22/2016 Leave a Comment

Theranos Competitor Genalyte Nabs $35M for One-Drop Blood Test

Genalyt, a San Diego, CA based startup has raised $36 million in funding led by Khosla Ventures and Redmile Group to expand its one-drop blood test platform, Maverick™ Detection System.Founded in 2007, the Theranos competitor leverages proprietary silicon chip containing arrays of photonic microring sensors to simultaneously analyze multiple proteins/biomarkers from minimal sample volume, which can be utilized inside physician offices by offering laboratory test results in under 15 minutes.In
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