What You Should Know: - Change Healthcare launches national data resource on
social determinants of health (SDoH) for doctors, insurers and life sciences
organizations to better understand the connection between where a person lives
and how they live their life to the care a patient receives and their health
outcome. - 80% of U.S. health outcomes are tied to a patient’s
social and economic situation, ranging from food, housing, and transportation
insecurity to ethnicity. Change
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Cleveland Clinic Develop COVID-19 Risk Prediction Model through Epic MyChart
What You Should Know: - Cleveland Clinic develops the COVID-19 risk prediction model through Epic MyChart that is now available to health systems around the world. - Healthcare organizations can present the clinically
validated model to patients in MyChart to assess their risk of having COVID-19. Cleveland Clinic researchers have developed a COVID-19 risk prediction model that uses information from the patient’s comprehensive health records combined with patient-centered information
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M&A: Centene to Acquire AI Healthcare Analytics Platform Apixio
What You Should Know: - Centene Corporation acquires AI healthcare analytics platform
Apixio to additional data and AI capability to technology portfolio. - Apixio will remain an operationally independent entity
as part of Centene's Health Care Enterprises group to continue bringing value
to its clients and the industry. Centene Corporation, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Apixio Inc., an AI healthcare analytics company offering Artificial
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Eko Lands $65M to Expand AI-Powered Telehealth Platform for Virtual Pulmonary and Cardiac Exam
What You Should Know: - Cardiopulmonary digital health company Eko raises $65M
in Series C funding to close the gap between virtual and in-person heart and
lung care. - The latest round of funding will enable Eko to expand
in-clinic use of its platform of telehealth and AI algorithms for disease
screening and to launch a monitoring program for cardiopulmonary patients at
home. Eko, a
cardiopulmonary digital
health company,
today announced $65 million in Series C funding led by
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Sony Updates NUCLeUS Medical Imaging Platform to Support Remote Patient Observation
What You Should Know: - Today, Sony announced an update to our NUCLeUS medical
imaging platform, which improves support for remote patient observation. - NUCLeUS has added new functionality and features,
including powerful bi-directional telestration capabilities allowing multiple
remote users to simultaneously annotate, draw or highlight areas of interest in
a live stream video or still image. Sony today
announced an update to its vendor-neutral medical imaging platform NUCLeUS.
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MIT’s Algorithm Reduces Unnecessary Use of Antibiotics for UTIs
What You Should Know: - MIT research team created a machine learning algorithm
that predicts the probability that a patient’s Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
can be treated by various antibiotics. - The team showed that the algorithm would allow
clinicians to reduce the use of second-line antibiotics (which have been shown
to put women at risk for potentially dangerous complications) by 67 percent.
For patients where clinicians chose a second-line drug but the algorithm chose
a first-line
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AI Leads Way to Less False Positives on Remote Cardiac Monitoring Devices, Improved Results
What You Should Know: - Cardiac patients and their cardiologists are
experiencing a high number of false positives with remote patient monitoring
devices as a result of signal artifact providing inaccurate data, which can
lead to many complications—other than medical, such as unnecessary tests and
increased medical costs. - Ambulatory cardiac monitoring provider InfoBionic has devised a way to decrease false positives and increase efficiency. Remote cardiac monitoring’s false
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KēlaHealth Lands $12.9M to Expand AI-Powered Surgical Intelligence Platform
What You Should Know: - KēlaHealth
announced their Series A round (combined seed and Series A) of $12.9M led by
Sante Ventures and new innovation VC, Intuitive Ventures. - KēlaHealth, is a surgical intelligence engine that
applies a dynamic cycle of patient-specific predictions, stratified
interventions, and outcomes tracking to reduce surgical complications - KēlaHealth is the first investment for Intuitive
Ventures, a new innovation fund spun out of Intuitive Surgical,
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3M and Eko Launches 3M Littmann® CORE Digital Stethoscope for Clinicians
What You Should Know: - 3M and Eko team up to launch 3M Littmann® CORE Digital
Stethoscope to deliver a game-changing tool for clinicians as they assess,
diagnose, and monitor their patients. - The new 3M Littmann CORE Digital Stethoscope offers
clinicians access to both analog and digital auscultation options and connects
to Eko’s software and AI algorithms* to help clinicians better interpret sounds
and detect heart murmurs. 3M™ Littmann® Stethoscopes and Eko, today announced the
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The Future of the ICU? How Clinical Decision Support Is Advancing Care
Without a doubt 2020 has been a devastating year for many; the impact of COVID-19 on both personal lives and businesses has had long-term consequences. At the end of September, the number of COVID-19 cases fell just short of 350 million, with just over 1 million deaths reported. The expectation of a second peak in many countries exposed to the deadly illness is being handled with care, with many governments attempting to minimize the impact of an extreme rise in cases. COVID-19
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