What You Should Know:
- Mercy has developed a new AI-driven texting platform called The Chen Chemotherapy Model, which is helping to keep chemotherapy patients out of the hospital by raising red flags before symptoms become severe. The model was created by Jiajing Chen, a data scientist who passed away from cancer earlier this year.
- The Chen Chemotherapy Model predicts the likelihood of outpatient chemotherapy patients experiencing symptoms that may result in hospitalization within 30
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MIT Spun Out Layer Health Launches with $4M to Build the AI Layer for Healthcare
What You Should Know:
- Layer Health, a healthcare AI company spun out of MIT, has been launched with $4M in funding from investors such as GV (Google Ventures), General Catalyst, and Inception Health.
- The company is focused on solving the information problem in healthcare by using AI to quickly perform any clinical, administrative, or research task that requires chart review from unstructured data.
Building the AI layer for healthcare — powered by large language models.
Layer
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Butterfly Network, iCardio.ai Partner to Deploy Cardiac Ultrasound AI Tools
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- iCardio.ai, a developer of deep learning algorithms for ultrasound images, has joined Butterfly Garden, an AI Marketplace by Butterfly Network.
- The agreement aims to integrate iCardio.ai's suite of cardiac ultrasound AI tools with Butterfly's single-probe, whole-body handheld ultrasound system, pending applicable approvals.
Cardiac Ultrasound AI Tools
Cardio.ai's software, awaiting FDA 510(k) clearance, automates critical measurements of the heart, detects
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Aiberry Expands Mental Health AI-Powered Assessment Platform to Cover Major Anxiety Disorders
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Aiberry®, a leading AI-powered mental health assessment platform, today announced that it has expanded its capabilities to include screening for anxiety disorders, in addition to the clinically-validated depression assessments it has provided to date.The comprehensive anxiety screening includes assessments for five distinct anxiety disorders including generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, post traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), and
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Widespread Ultrasound Adoption in Primary Care Expected Within 5 Years, Exo Study Reveals
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Exo, a pioneering medical imaging software and devices company, today released its 2023 Survey Report: Unlocking Point-of-Care Ultrasound.Based on a survey of more than 150 U.S.-based physicians, the report uncovers trends related to point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) adoption and use—such as challenges with existing solutions, their perceived value of handheld POCUS devices, and the impact of new innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI) on medical imaging and
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Wysa’s AI-Powered Mental Health Platform Now Available at FQHC
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- Wysa, an AI-guided mental health platform, has partnered with MyCHN, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) with 14 locations throughout Texas.
- Wysa's integrated solution will now offer continuous and accessible mental health care support across the care journey for patients and providers.
- Wysa's partnership with MyCHN follows recent launches with three leading orthopedic hospitals: the Living Well Center of Washington University at St. Louis, the
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Using Generative AI to Streamline Clinician Workflow and Reduce Burnout
Clinician stress rose significantly during the pandemic but has remained high even as COVID-19-related patient volumes and illness severity have subsided. In 2021, 62.8% of U.S. physicians exhibited burnout; this year, it is 62%.
Contributing factors include heavy patient loads, too many administrative tasks, and rising clinician shortages. Many physicians work 50 hours a week: seeing up to 20 patients a day, spending an average of 4.5 hours entering electronic health records (EHR
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AI Empowers Healthcare: Streamlined Data, Supported Workers, Enhanced Patient Experiences
The healthcare industry is known for holding on to data – and for good reason. With valuable insights and patterns to be derived from patient information, more is more. Where healthcare IT departments run into issues is when this data becomes unmanageable: disorganized and siloed and partially stored in dusty offices with the rest sitting exposed on outdated legacy systems. My point? With more than 30 percent of the world’s data generated by healthcare systems, it’s growing impossible for
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Elucid Raises $80M to Drive Commercialization of AI-powered Cardiovascular Diagnostic Tools
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- Elucid, a medical technology company providing AI-powered imaging analysis software to assess cardiovascular disease, has raised $80M in Series C funding led by Elevage Medical Technologies, with additional participation from industry strategics and existing investors.
- This funding will enable Elucid to expand its commercialization efforts, providing physicians and patients with AI-powered imaging analysis software to assess and combat cardiovascular
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RapidAI Receives FDA Clearance for Rapid SDH (Subdural Hematoma) for Trauma Care
What You Should Know:
- RapidAI has received FDA clearance for Rapid SDH, its AI-powered module for the detection and notification of suspected hemispheric acute and chronic subdural hematoma.
- The need for the RapidAI solution is urgent, with SDH cases in US patients expected to increase by nearly 80% before 2040.
AI Module for Detection of Hemispheric Subdural Hematomas
Rapid SDH leverages AI to help neurocritical care teams identify suspected hemispheric subdural hemorrhage
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