Whether it's asking Siri for directions to the nearest coffee shop or commanding Alexa to turn on the lights, using voice assistants has become part of daily routines. More than one-third of the U.S. population relies on these tools to make their lives easier, and they’re being embraced by more than just millennials; use among seniors, children, and teens is also on the rise.
But the home and smartphone aren’t the only domains for voice assistants. Businesses of all types – from
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Applying Social Determinants of Health to Improve Care Coordination
In today’s era of value-based care, providers must focus more than ever on ensuring that patients get the care they need, when they need it, across the entire care continuum, including in non-traditional health care settings. This is important not only as it relates to patient outcomes, but also to providers’ bottom lines.
However, when patients lack access to basic care-centric needs like proper housing, food, transportation, and a support system, they’re unable to get the right type of care
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RADLogics Brings AI-Powered COVID-19 Apps for CT & X-rays to U.S. Market
What You Should Know:
RADLogics has signed an agreement with Nuance to
officially bring its novel COVID-19 solutions for CT and X-ray to the U.S.
market.
The new agreement that will expand access to RADLogics’
medical imaging applications designed to assist in the detection and
quantification of findings associated of COVID-19 patients in the U.S. through
Nuance’s AI Marketplace for Diagnostic Imaging – a cloud-based platform that
has broad reach to U.S. radiologists across more than
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AI Can Identify Unseen Sufferers of COVID-19 & Enable Proactive Care
As the nation’s eyes focus on COVID-19, another healthcare crisis is unfolding out of sight. Hidden from view, millions of Americans who don’t have COVID-19 are suffering healthcare crises in their homes. These unseen individuals are facing major challenges, on multiple levels: acute, chronic, and preventive. Patients are waiting longer at home before coming to the hospital for acute illnesses like appendicitis, stroke, or heart attack. Patients with chronic diseases are not receiving
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Mount Sinai Researchers Develops AI Algorithm to Detect COVID-19 from CT Scans
What You Should Know:
- Mount Sinai researchers develop a unique artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to detect COVID-19 based on CT scans and patient data.
- The Mount Sinai team integrated data from those CT scans with the clinical information to develop an AI algorithm. It mimics the workflow a physician uses to diagnose COVID-19 and gives a final prediction of positive or negative diagnosis.
Mount Sinai researchers
are the first in the country to use
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Digital Strategies Health IT Must Prioritize During COVID-19
COVID-19 is introducing new weaknesses to an already strained healthcare system. As healthcare providers battle an increasing influx of patients and dwindling inventory – including critical personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies like masks, ventilators, and hospital beds – they are relying more heavily on their digital tools and applications than ever before.
This is an unprecedented opportunity for health IT professionals to contribute their skills and ingenuity to the COVID-19 fight.
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Zebra Medical Vision Secures 5th FDA Clearance for Vertebral Compression Fractures AI Solution
What You Should Know:
- Israeli deep-learning medical imaging analytics startup Zebra-Med secures its fifth FDA clearance vertebral compression fractures AI solution for availability in the U.S.
- The AI solution will help health providers close the COVID-19-induced care gaps by identifying more patients at risk of osteoporosis, also known as the “silent killer,” costing over $52B in the U.S. alone.
- Zebra-Med is one of the first companies in the industry to provide an AI
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AHA Launches COVID-19 Data Challenge to Address Health Disparities Among African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans in Rural Areas
What You Need to Know:
- American Heart Association, Hitachi Vantara and BurstIQ launch COVID-19 Data Challenge to bring global COVID-19 datasets to researchers and clinicians to examine the relationship with other health conditions and health disparities.
- Each participant of the challenge will be provided a free, HIPPA compliant and FedRAMP certified, secure Precision Medicine Platform (PMP) workspace to conduct analyses.
The American Heart Association, the
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The DNA Company Acquires AI Digital Therapeutics App for $30M to Form My Next Health
What You Should Know:
- DNA Company acquires AI-based digital therapeutics app My Pain Sensei (MPS) to form My Next Health and is building a COVID-19 risk assessment platform to help people understand their risks of developing serious COVID-19 complications.
- The acquisition combines functional genomics with conversational AI for patient self-management apps and disease tracking tools designed to inform clinician-patient interactions.
Leading functional genomics provider The
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FDA Expedites Clearance for AI Ultrasound Solution to Fight COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- FDA expedites clearance of Caption Health’s AI-powered ultrasound solution to aid frontline healthcare workers in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
- Caption Health’s AI-guided imaging supports the assessment of cardiac function and decreases personnel exposure to novel coronavirus.
In response to the growing body of evidence demonstrating
the impact of COVID-19
on the heart, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expedited
clearance of an update
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