Your.MD, a London-based digital health startup has raised $10 million in funding led by Orkla Ventures and with participation from Smedvig Capital AS and other existing shareholders. The round of funding will be used to support the growth of Your.MD’s health information platform and expansion of its global AI-powered marketplace, OneStopHealth.OneStop Health- a one-stop-shop in digital health to allow people to take full control of each stage of their health issues: from understanding their
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Ayasdi Launches New AI Platform That Turns Health Systems Into AI App Incubators
Ayasdi, a provider of machine intelligence software and AI apps, has announced the release of Ayasdi Envision, a new framework enabling health systems to become AI app incubators. Starting today, health systems will be able to easily build their own apps on top of an enterprise-class Artificial Intelligence platform. The Envision framework will enable healthcare organizations to quickly create and consume intelligent apps that are purpose-built to solve a broad array of clinical and business
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UCHealth Launches Innovation Center to Develop AI-Powered Decision Support Solutions
Nonprofit health system UC Health has formed an innovation lab focused on developing more effective ways to use decision support science to reduce clinical variation, streamline provider workflows, enhance clinician decision making and improve overall patient care. The UCHealth CARE Innovation Center’s new Applied Decision Science Lab (ADSL) will collaborate with both internal and external innovators, as well as industry partners, to better understand how these stakeholders can both contribute
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Accolade Unveils Maya Intelligence Engine & App to Deliver Personalized Healthcare Experience
Accolade, an on-demand healthcare concierge for employers, health plans and health systems has unveiled their new Maya Intelligence Engine to provide highly personalized healthcare support for individuals and their families. In addition, Accolade is introducing a new mobile experience with Accolade Mobile app that enables live messaging with dedicated health assistants and nurses on any health- or benefits-related question or concern.Accolade CEO Raj Singh and Chief Product Officer Mike Hilton
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3 Ways Hospitals Can Ease Physician Workload to Improve Performance
Editor's Note: Chris Strammiello is the Vice President of Global Alliances for Nuance Communications. Under his leadership, Nuance Document Imaging solutions help healthcare organizations manage patient health information, provide software compatible with electronic health records and remain in compliance with HIPAA.In the last few years, health care industry developments have increased record-keeping responsibility on physicians, making their job more difficult. A national survey commissioned
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Partners, GE Healthcare Launch 10-Year Initiative to Bring Artificial Intelligence to Diagnostic Imaging
Partners HealthCare and GE Healthcare announced a 10-year collaboration to rapidly develop, validate and strategically integrate artificial intelligence technology across the entire continuum of care. The vision of the collaboration includes co-development of open platform on which deep learning applications can be created, validated and seamlessly integrated into clinical workflows. Specific areas of focus span across multiple medical specialties including:- Radiology- Pathology- Population
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UK Startup Babylon Health Raises $60M to Offer AI-Powered Chatbot for London Patients
Babylon Health, a London-based digital health startup has raised $60 million in funding from undisclosed investors. The startup plans to utilize the funding round to scale its artificial intelligence capabilities for its chatbot that provides useful advice from real doctors, from anywhere. The chatbot uses machine-learning algorithms to analyze an individual’s health profile and suggest possible future illnesses.Founded in January 2013 and launched to the public in April 2014, babylon health
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DiagnosisAI Launches Amazon Alexa App to Provide Personalized Answers to Medical Questions
DiagnosisAI, a healthcare technology company that focuses on using artificial intelligence to empower patients has unveiled a new voice-based medical reference app named “Alexa, Ask Doctor Dex” (DexMD).Traditionally, most people look up their symptoms through sites such as WebMD and end up self-diagnosing themselves incorrectly (i.e.-cancer). DexMD uses artificial intelligence and machine learning on Amazon Alexa to provide specific, personalized, and directed answers to medical questions with
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African Hospitals Adopt Artificial Intelligence to Advance Clinical Genomics
Sophia Genetics, a provider of data-driven medicine, today unveiled the list of African hospitals that have started integrating SOPHiA, the company’s artificial intelligence, into their clinical workflow to advance patients’ care across the continent. Medical institutions at the forefront of innovation already using SOPHiA in Africa include:· PharmaProcess in Casablanca, Morocco;· ImmCell in Rabat, Morocco;· The Al Azhar Oncology Center in Rabat, Morocco;· The Riad Biology Center in Rabat,
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Qventus Expands Artificial Intelligence Platform to Operative Room
Qventus, an AI-based software platform that solves operational challenges across the hospital has announced the expansion of its platform to the perioperative environment, including the operating room (OR). Perioperative care generally represents 50 to 60 percent of hospital revenue. Almost 80 percent of preventable same-day surgical cancellations are due to process failures, such as patients not showing up for surgery, lack of equipment or beds and the OR behind schedule. These cancellations
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