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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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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BD Taps BERG’s AI Platform to Reduce Medication Non-Adherence
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) a leader in medical technology, will use BERG's artificial intelligence platform to improve patient health by minimizing challenges associated with medication adherence for patients. The partnership will leverage BD's healthcare IT expertise and BERG's AI platform to develop a medication adherence algorithm that will help healthcare workers identify certain patient populations that are at the highest risk for nonadherence post-discharge.Estimates show that the
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HealthTap launches Personal AI-Powered Physician Platform, Dr. A.I.♥
HealthTap, a Global Health Practice providing 24/7 immediate access to doctors and their knowledge via video, text, and voice has launched their latest product, Health A.I.♥ , an artificially intelligent personal physician that routes users to the right care immediately. Accessible for consumers starting today from any mobile device or personal computer through the HealthTap website or HealthTap iOS or Android apps, Health A.I.♥ instantaneously translate your symptoms into a personalized course
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Chinese Search Engine Launches AI-Powered Bot for Doctors & Patients
Chinese search engine Baidu Inc., today launched Melody the Medical Assistant, an AI-powered conversational bot that helps doctors gather information from patients about their medical conditions. Baidu Melody is designed to save doctors and patients time in online discussions and provide relevant, contextual information to doctors to assist with recommendations and treatment options. The announcement was made at a Baidu Health and AI Workshop held today in Beijing. Melody is available
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Can Artificial Intelligence Reduce “Notification Overload” for Clinicians?
One of the unintended consequences of moving healthcare onto EHRs has been an increase in time spent reviewing a much-increased volume of messages for the clinician. EHRs were supposed to simplify and streamline the in-office and in-hospital workflows, but what has happened instead has been “notification overload.” A recent article published in JAMA showed that, for primary care physicians, managing EHR notifications costs about an extra hour of work per day. In a fee-for-service environment,
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Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Patient Engagement?
A recent article in The Commonwealth Fund blog, “Envisioning a Digital Health Advisor,” raises the question of being able to use smartphone apps to get real-time, accurate and personalized guidance for health concerns. While one can envision the convenience, affordability and peace of mind that would result from their use, such services face a number of hurdles before they become reality. As a result, the “digital revolution” has not yet greatly affected most people’s interactions with the
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