What You Should Know:
- Tempus, a provider of artificial intelligence and precision medicine, today announced the launch of Edge, an innovative platform that allows pathologists to access developing AI models intended to identify specimens with potentially actionable biomarkers using a single hematoxylin and eosin stain (H&E) slide.
- With access to over 50 petabytes of de-identified multimodal data, Tempus is developing AI models with the aim to identify patients who would
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Day 3 HIMSS Roundup: Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT, GE Healthcare/AliveCor Integration
Venture Capital, Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Activity
Glooko Acquires DIABNEXT® to Expand Diabetes Offerings in France
Glooko, a leading provider of remote patient monitoring and data management solutions for diabetes and related chronic conditions, today announced the acquisition of DIABNEXT, a Paris-based company whose digital health platform helps people with diabetes better manage their conditions and connects to their healthcare providers, so they can
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GE Healthcare & AliveCor Integrate Data from ECGs Into Clinical Workflow
What You Should Know:
- AliveCor and GE Healthcare announced they are partnering to integrate data from AliveCor’s KardiaMobile 6L electrocardiogram (ECG) device directly into GE Healthcare’s MUSE Cardiac Management System (MUSE).
- Today, cardiologists often rely on real-time data from personal electrocardiogram (ECG) devices to help manage patients with cardiac conditions like atrial fibrillation (AFib). AliveCor’s KardiaMobile 6L ECG offers the only
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Verily & Lumea Partner to Leverage AI in Prostate Cancer Diagnoses
What You Should Know:
- Verily and Lumea today announced a strategic partnership to develop products that can diagnose, prognose, and guide prostate cancer therapy selection with improved objectivity and efficiency.
- Lumea’s integrated digital pathology solution will validate Verily’s AI method for improving cancer detection and grading in partnership with Google Health.
Partnership Goals
The Verily-Lumea collaboration will utilize Lumea’s digital pathology platform
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Precision Medicine Startup Prenosis Raises $20M for Acute Care Solutions, Starting with Sepsis
What You Should Know:
- Prenosis, Inc., a precision medicine company, announced a venture investment from PACE Healthcare Capital, an early-stage investment firm committed to improving health outcomes. This investment brings total funding in the company to over $20 million, including partnerships with Foxconn, Roche Diagnostics, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and others.
- Precision medicine company will use the funding to
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BrightInsight & UCB Partner to Build Digital Care Solutions for Rare Diseases
What You Should Know:
- BrightInsight, provider of the leading global platform for biopharma and medtech regulated digital health solutions, announced a partnership with global biopharma, UC to build digital care solutions for rare diseases.
- BrightInsight will build and bring to market a digital disease management solution to support patients with Myasthenia Gravis (MG), a rare autoimmune disease that disrupts how nerves communicate with muscles, affecting more than 700,000 people
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How Health Systems Can Use AI to Optimize Resources and Maximize Patient Satisfaction
Over the past several years, nearly all of the leading health systems in the United States have adopted some form of AI, such as machine learning (ML) or natural language processing (NLP), to assist in managing healthcare operations. The unprecedented growth and development of AI has been instrumental in transforming health system administration, healthcare data analytics and patient diagnosis and treatment.
Despite this growth, health systems have yet to maximize the potential of AI to
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Cedars-Sinai Establishes New Division: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM)
What You Should Know:
- Today, the department of Cedars-Sinai announced it has established a new division to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied to help solve complex medical problems and enhance clinical care.
- The new division, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, or AIM will be led by Sumeet Chugh, MD, an associate director of the Smidt Heart Institute and a prominent expert in sudden cardiac arrest, who has long relied on technology and population-wide data to help
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Sirona Medical Acquires Nines Radiology AI Division
What You Should Know:
- Sirona Medical, a software company with a cloud-native solution for radiologists, has announced its acquisition of Nines Radiology’s AI division. Sirona Medical did not acquire Nines' teleradiology business, Nines Radiology. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
- This is Sirona’s first acquisition just months after its exit from stealth in Aug. 2021 with a total of $62.5M in Series A & B financing rounds.
Why It Matters
The FDA-cleared medical
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7 Burning Questions from Life Sciences Companies on Using AI Agents
Each day life science companies respond to numerous medical information inquires – many of which are similar in nature or can be simply addressed. However, as we have seen in the news reports with the Great Resignation and many workers searching for new careers, the number of individuals interested in working in a medical information contact center may be waning. When you combine this with the rising volume of inquiries or medical inquiries and patient expectations for a real-time response to
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