What You Should Know:
- A pioneer in high definition ultrasound
miniaturization, Clarius is announcing the new high-frequency handheld
ultrasound scanner Clarius L20 HD featuring the highest definition wireless
imaging for superficial applications.
- Designed to provide extremely high image quality in the near field (skin line to 4cm), the Clarius L20 HD is ideal for a variety of clinical settings including MSK, rheumatology, podiatry, plastic surgery, microsurgery, pediatric
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RADLogics Secures FDA Clearance for AI-Powered Chest X-Ray App for Triage & Prioritization
What You Should Know:
- RADLogics today announced that it has secured
510(k) clearance from the FDA for the company’s novel AI-Powered chest X-ray pneumothorax application,
which identifies and prioritizes chest X-ray scans that appear
to contain a pneumothorax, a collapsed lung, for urgent radiologist review.
- RADLogics’ FDA cleared CT and X-ray solutions
– including this application – are
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Beyond Limits Nabs $133M to Drive Global Expansion of AI Technology
What You Should Know:
- Beyond Limits, an AI provider that uniquely uses 45
technologies developed at Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to provide
business intelligence for healthcare raises $133M in funding.
- Beyond Limits’ AI predictive model is helping
healthcare professionals fight against COVID-19 including determining the
percentage of patients that may need ventilators and ECMO in the ICU and
dialysis units.
Beyond Limits, an LA-based industrial and enterprise-grade AI
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Dept. of Defense and Philips Partner on AI Tech to Contain COVID-19
Dept. of Defense and Philips Partner on AI Tech to Contain COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Today, Philips, in partnership with the U.S.
Department of Defense, announced plans to expand their research on an AI-based
early warning system for infectious disease, opening new possibilities in the
battle to contain COVID-19.
- An application of their joint Rapid Analysis of Threat
Exposure (RATE) project, the technology aims to provide early alerts
of potential
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Olive Raises Another $106M for AI-Powered Digital Employee Platform
What You Should Know:
- The company that built healthcare’s first digital employee, Olive, today announced an additional $106M in financing in a round led by General Catalyst and Drive Capital.
- Hospitals were implementing an AI workforce to manage
administrative tasks before the pandemic started, and recent events have kicked
adoption into overdrive.
- Olive’s quick growth is a testament to hospitals’
urgent need for administrative efficiency as they navigate the public
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Change Healthcare Launches New AI Model to Extract Diagnostic Data from EHRs for Case Management
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare launches a new artificial intelligence model that automatically extracts diagnostic data from clinical notes to increase the efficiency of automated medical necessity reviews by over 20%.
- The new Change Healthcare AI models are trained using
clinical data and are honed by expert physicians.
Change Healthcare unveils new innovative new Artificial Intelligence models, trained by expert physicians, which extract meaningful diagnostic
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After COVID-19, Healthcare’s Next Big Challenge: Reforming Surgery
Dr. Tamir Wolf, CEO and co-founder, Theator
Nearly six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, many hard-hit healthcare systems have begun resuming elective surgeries and redeploying surgeons, residents, and fellows back to their home departments after enlisting them in COVID wards and ICUs.
These practitioners are returning physically exhausted and emotionally strained from the harrowing experience of serving on the front lines of the COVID
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MEDITECH Launches Expanse Virtual Assistant Through Nuance
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH launches Expanse Virtual Assistant, enabling
users to quickly access, navigate, and control the EHR using advanced Nuance
Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant technology.
- Physicians can leverage Expanse Virtual Assistant to
navigate and search patient charts for key areas of information including lab
results, medications, allergies, radiology images, and more.
MEDITECH and Nuance Communications Inc. (Nuance),
today announced a collaboration to
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AI Collaboration Saves Pharmacies 5.5 Hours Monthly on Critical Administrative Tasks
What You Should Know:
- DrFirst partners with a Kansas-based pharmacy management system (PMS) provider to improve safety and efficiency in hundreds of pharmacies across the country.
- Speed Script is integrating DrFirst’s SmartSig technology into its suite of pharmacy management solutions (PMS) used by the community and long-term care pharmacies countrywide.
- Using the two technologies could save pharmacies processing
more than 250 prescriptions a day
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Israeli Startup Deploys AI-based Solution for Prostate Cancer Detection
Pathologists at CorePlus review a cancer heatmap generated using Ibex Medical Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Ibex Medical Analytics announces the first U.S.
deployment of its AI-powered solution for cancer detection in pathology, at the
CorePlus Servicios Clínicos y Patológicos, LLC, a leading clinical and anatomic
pathology lab in Puerto Rico.
- The deployment will improve cancer care in the U.S.,
where the number of pathologists decreased by nearly 20% in the past decade.
This
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