- Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank partners with LifeOmic to aggregate and analyze data on LifeOmic’s AI-powered cloud platform, the Precision Health Cloud (PHC), to gain insight into breast cancer. - The Komen Tissue Bank is the only repository in the world for normal breast tissue and matched serum, plasma, and DNA. The tissue bank advances breast cancer research by offering high quality, richly annotated tissue samples to scientists worldwide. LifeOmic, the creator of the LIFE mobile apps and the
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Notable Launches Observational Clinical Trial for Patients with Blood Cancer
- Notable launches The ANSWer Study, it's new observational clinical trial for patients with blood cancer and is currently enrolling patients.- The primary assessment is to establish a tumor registry with annotated clinical outcomes.Notable, a San Francisco, CA-based company redefining cancer treatment with a clinically validated platform that rapidly advances drug development, is currently enrolling patients in its new observational clinical trial. The clinical trial will take place at
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AI Will Continue to Improve Healthcare, But Only If We Can Trust It
While the public perceives artificial intelligence as futuristic, AI is already intertwined with healthcare today. As a PwC report observed, AI is transforming numerous aspects of healthcare, from medical training and research to wellness and treatment. But while AI is already supercharging our capabilities (it’s 30 times faster and 99 percent accurate when reviewing mammograms, reducing the need for unnecessary biopsies, for example), AI is also supercharging the disparities that are baked into
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Star Trek-Inspired Bed for X-Ray Medical Imaging Raises $26M
- Israeli digital health startup Nanox raises $26M to support the commercialization and deployment of its Star Trek-inspired medical bed for end-to-end X-ray medical imaging service. - The Nanox System is composed of the Nanox.Arc, a novel digital X-ray device and the Nanox.Cloud, a companion cloud-based software that will be designed to provide an end-to-end medical imaging service. NANO-X IMAGING LTD. (“Nanox” or the “Company”), an Neve Ilan, Israel-based innovative medical imaging technology
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CLEW Lands $20M to Expand AI-Powered Critical Care Platform in the US Market
- CLEW closes a $20M Series B round of funding to scale US operations and commercialize CLEW’s critical care platform. - CLEW is a real-time AI analytics platform designed to help providers make better informed clinical decisions by predicting life-threatening complications across various medical care settings.CLEW, a digital health startup announced that it has successfully concluded its Series B funding, bringing the total capital raised to over $20 million. The round was led by Pitango
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Mercom: Global Digital Health VC Funding Down 6% at $8.9B in 2019
- New Mercom Capital annual report reveals global venture capital (VC) funding in digital health declined 6% at $8.9B compared to $9.5B in 2018. - Total corporate funding into Digital Health – including VC funding, debt, and public market funding - dropped 18% to $10.6 billion in 2019 compared to $13 billion in 2018.- Five digital health IPOs brought in a total of $1.4 billion in 2019Global venture capital (VC) funding in digital health, including private equity and corporate venture, declined
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Leveraging AI and Machine Learning to Advance Interoperability in Healthcare
(Left- Wilson To, Head of Worldwide Healthcare BD, Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Patrick Combes, Worldwide Technical Leader - Healthcare and Life Sciences at Amazon Web Services (AWS)- Right)Navigating the healthcare system is often a complex journey involving multiple physicians from hospitals, clinics, and general practices. At each junction, healthcare providers collect data that serve as pieces in a patient’s medical puzzle. When all of that data can be shared at each point, the puzzle is
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Livongo Integrates With Dexcom’s G6 Continuous Glucose Monitoring System
- Livongo announced a data integration partnership with Dexcom to offer Livongo Members the ability to sync data from their Dexcom G6 Continuous Glucose Monitoring System with the Livongo applied health signals platform. - As part of the integration, Livongo can now combine Dexcom CGM data with rich Member data from Livongo’s connected devices to deliver health insights that address the whole person.Livongo, an Applied Health Signals company has partnered with Dexcom, Inc. a provider of
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EarlySign, Maccabi Healthcare Launches AI-Powered Flu Vaccination Campaign
- Medial EarlySign unveils the first clinical implementation of its AI-based solution to identify unvaccinated individuals at high-risk of developing serious flu-related complications.- Developed in collaboration with leading Israeli HMO Maccabi Healthcare Services, the implementation utilizes existing EHR data to identify and stratify patients at high risk.Medial EarlySign, a Israeli-based provider of machine learning-based solutions to aid in the early detection and prevention of high-burden
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Change Healthcare Unveils Breakthrough All-Payer Medical Claim Attachments Capability
- Change Healthcare unveils industry’s first nationwide solution that allows providers to submit documents and data, like claims attachments, electronically to all health plans in both the Medical and Workers’ Compensation market segments.- This new claim attachments solution also sets the stage for new additional uses of Artificial Intelligence.Today Change Healthcare announced major new enhancements to its medical claim attachments solution. These enhancements will create the industry’s first
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