Komodo Health has named Dr. Aswin Chandrakantan as its Chief Operating Officer. Dr. Chandrakantan will also continue to serve as the firm’s Chief Medical Officer, a role he has held since 2016. Dr. Chandrakantan was one of Komodo Health’s earliest employees – following leadership roles at McKinsey and Google – and has played a central role in the company’s rapid-fire growth.
RxBenefits appoints Wendy Barnes as its new Chief Executive Officer. Barnes succeeds Bryan Statham, who served as the
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Geisinger & Tempus Create AI Model to Identify Structural Heart Disease
What You Should Know:
- Tempus, an $8B precision medicine company, announced a collaborative study with Geisinger focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) model that can accurately identify patients at increased risk of undiagnosed structural heart disease (SHD). The study addresses a critical diagnostic gap – SHD is a progressive disease that affects the valves, walls, chambers, and muscles of the heart, and causes debilitating symptoms or death, yet many patients with the disease go
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RapidAI Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for Pulmonary Embolism Triage & Notification
What You Should Know:
- RapidAI, a neurovascular and vascular AI-enhanced clinical decision support and patient workflow receives FDA 510(k) clearance for its Rapid PE Triage & Notification product for fast identification and communication of suspected central pulmonary embolism — further strengthening RapidAI’s industry-leading clinical AI platform.
- Rapid PE Triage & Notification, in conjunction with Rapid Workflow for PE, will enable care teams to more
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Data-Driven Healthcare Operations Will Transform Outcomes
You don’t need another story urging you to “get to the cloud.” That’s old news for healthcare executives, who’ve long understood the necessity of rebooting the way their organizations operate in the digital era.
In a recent McKinsey study, 19 of the 22 healthcare leaders the company interviewed described digital healthcare solutions as “highly relevant” or “relevant” to their businesses. They get it.
In fact, digital healthcare has already become the minimum table stakes: 93% of
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BeeKeeperAI Partners with Microsoft to Accelerate AI-Powered Innovation in Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- BeeKeeperAI, a company powering AI-powered solutions that will help to redefine the future of healthcare today announced its expanded collaboration with Microsoft.
- The collaboration will allow algorithm developers and healthcare data stewards to access BeeKeeperAI, operating in the Microsoft Azure confidential computing (ACC) environment, through the Azure Marketplace.
New Frontier for Healthcare AI Research
The enhanced collaboration aims to accelerate the
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KAID Health Raises $4.25M for AI-Powered Provider/Payer Whole Chart Analysis Platform
What You Should Know:
KAID Health,makers of anartificial intelligence-enabled clinical analysis and provider engagement platform,today announced its $4.25M in Series A funding bringing their total capital raised to $6.45M.
- The funding will fuel growth of the provider/payer platform that integrates with the electronic medical records (EMR) to identify high-value tactical care and coding interventions. The company will also expand its Boston, MA office and will hire new team
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Homethrive Raises $20M for Next-Gen Caregiving Platform
What You Should Know:
- Homethrive, a tech-enabled healthcare service company that’s disrupting and revolutionizing how employers, insurers, and affinity groups support unpaid family caregivers and their loved ones raises an additional $20M in Series B funding led by Human Capital. The round also included participation from Allianz and existing investors 7wireVentures and Pitango HealthTech.
- The funding round fuel Homethrive’s aggressive expansion with self-insured employers and
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Reproducibility, Trust, and the Digital Laboratory
Over the last decade, there has been an increasing recognition that results published in scientific journals often cannot be reproduced by other scientists. This has been called the “reproducibility crisis” and has been described in a number of studies. A 2016 Nature article reported that more than 70% of surveyed researchers tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments. A 2021 study reported that fewer than half
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Pfizer and Sidekick Health Launches Digital Therapeutics Solution for Eczema
What You Should Know:
- Sidekick Health today announces the launch of an integrated digital therapeutics solution for improving the outcomes of patients with Atopic Dermatitis (AD) in conjunction with Pfizer Inc., one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies.
- Sidekick and Pfizer will be rolling out their integrated digital therapeutics offering, launching first in the UK, followed by Belgium, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, Ireland, and Japan later in 2022.
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Nearly 60% of Hospitals and Health Systems Have More Than 100 Job Vacancies
What You Should Know:
- More than 57 percent of health systems and hospitals have more than 100 open roles to fill across their operations, according to new AKASA survey where more than 400 healthcare finance leaders identified vacancies across their healthcare organizations and the revenue cycle.
- The findings reveal how insufficient staffing is hampering daily operations and pushing a strained workforce to the limit.
Combating Vacancies with AI-Powered Automation
Additionally, one
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