“You only know who is naked when the tide goes out,” Warren Buffett famously said of the nation’s businesses when markets tank. For the nation’s information systems, the opposite is true. You see their weaknesses when they are inundated by a tidal wave of data.
A case in point is the information infrastructure of the American healthcare system, which will play a critical role in understanding and battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as the capacity of some national health systems have been
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Bright.md Raises $8M to Expand AI-Powered, Asynchronous Virtual Care
What You Should Know:
Bright.md announced the close of an $8 million series C
to deliver critical capacity to support patient care in the midst of a COVID-19
pandemic and to help flatten the curve.
The funding will be used for a massive expansion effort
to bring non-video telehealth to aid frontline healthcare workers and the
patients they are treating.
Over six years, Bright.md has stretched $12.5 million to
advance its AI-powered automation platform for primary and urgent
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Study: AI-Powered Solution Achieves High Accuracy for Detecting COVID-19 on CT
What You Should Know:
- New RADLogics research that validates the performance of an AI-powered CT image analysis solution that is designed to automatically and accurately detect COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and quantify the disease burden in affected patients.
- The study found that the CT image analysis algorithm – developed from multiple international datasets – was able to differentiate 157 patients with and without COVID-19 with a 0.996 AUC (plus, 98.2 percent sensitivity and 92.2 percent
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New COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Map Uses Social Determinants of Health to Identify Populations At Greater Risk
What You Should Know:
- Jvion Launches COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Map to identify the social determinants of health (SDOH) that put populations at greater risk, informing community planning and resource allocation to proactively mitigate the risk to vulnerable populations.
- The Community Vulnerability Map allows users to search and drill down into communities to view populations most vulnerable for severe outcomes if infected with a COVID-like virus and the socioeconomic
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Microsoft, Adaptive, Providence Partner to Decode COVID-19 Immune Response
What You Should Know:
- Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies have expanded their partnership to map the human immune response to COVID-19 and advance our understanding of the disease.
- Data from this study will be made available through an open-access portal to help researchers, public health organizations and industry improve diagnostics, help triage patients based on the immune response to the disease, and inform vaccine discovery for COVID-19.
- Other industry leaders including
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Stanford Alumni Scientists, Physicians Launch StartX Med COVID-19 Task Force
What You Should Know:
- More than 1500 Stanford faculty and alumni announced the launch of StartX Med COVID-19 Task Force featuring 70+ StartX Med Innovators with medical breakthroughs for the prevention, diagnostics, and treatment of coronavirus mobilize efforts to fast-track public health needs during the pandemic.
- The StartX Med COVID-19 Task Force will collaborate on outreach to government agencies, regulatory bodies and healthcare systems in the interest of public health for
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Kyruus, GYANT Integrate to Offer AI-Assisted Provider Search and Self-Scheduling
What You Need to Know:
- Kyruus and GYANT, today announced an integration partnership to offer AI-assisted provider search and self-scheduling on health system websites.
- The partnership will enable consumers to search for clinically appropriate providers and book appointments anywhere, anytime, with automated guidance from GYANT’s virtual assistant.
Kyruus, the provider of provider search and scheduling solutions for health systems, and GYANT, the leading artificial
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CynergisTek’s PPMS Leverages AI to Combat COVID-19 Insider Snooping
What You Need to Know:
- CynergisTek, a provider of healthcare cybersecurity and information management announced it has updated its Patient Privacy Monitoring Services (PPMS) to proactively identify and stop insider snooping related to the COVID-19 virus.
- As the number of cases continues to rise, information on patients who have been diagnosed or tested for the virus is incredibly valuable. Many healthcare organizations face the threat of unauthorized
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What Health IT Thought Leaders Say HIMSS20 Would Have Focused On—If It Had Happened
What You Need to Know:
Health IT thought leaders share what HIMSS20 would have focused On—if It had happened.
- Hot topics include health IT to address COVID-19; artificial intelligence; EHR interoperability and usability; and more.
–Kuldeep Singh Rajput, CEO of Biofourmis, Boston, Mass., which provides digital therapeutics that power personalized predictive care
“Remote monitoring platforms and clinical-grade wearables combined with artificial intelligence [AI]-based
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Jvion Launches AI-Powered Social Determinants of Health Solution
What You Need to Know:
- Jvion launches Social Determinants of Health solution enabling healthcare organizations to align community resources to identify gaps and social barriers to care.
- Jvion’s Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) solution is an analytics layer, featuring an interactive map built on Microsoft Azure.
- Requiring only demographic data, healthcare organizations can drill down from zip code to census tract, block, and individual-level risk to better understand the
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