For cancer patients and their loved ones, days, weeks, and months matter. In fact, anyone who has waited anxiously for test results or a treatment regimen to begin can attest that hours, or even minutes, will drag on with emotional heaviness. From a clinical standpoint as well, time to treatment significantly impacts outcomes. All suspected cancers should be ruled out or confirmed with a diagnosis so treatment can begin as soon as possible. Similarly, patients with incidental findings—masses or
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Elevance Health Launches AI-Driven Nutrition Tracker
What You Should Know:
- Elevance Health -- formerly Anthem, Inc. has announced the expansion of its Sydney Health application with the addition of a nutrition tracker function driven by artificial intelligence (AI). The new feature, called Nutrition Tracker, recognizes foods or an entire meal, providing virtual nutrition advice to improve affiliated health plan members’ overall health and well-being.
- Using smartphone cameras and typing-free nutrition tracking, affiliated health plan
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Improving Patient Access to Med Services Named Top Priority for Health Systems
What You Should Know:
- Improving patient access to medical services remains a top priority for U.S. health systems as they grapple with economic uncertainty and the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has altered patient behavior, according to a new report from the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) and KLAS Research.
- To address the challenge, health systems are investing in telehealth technology, patient portals and other digital tools, updating their organizational
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HeartSciences & Rutgers Partner to Develop AI-based ECG Algorithms
What You Should Know:
- Heart Test Laboratories, a medical technology company focused on saving lives by making an ECG a far more valuable screening tool through the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), announced that it has entered into a multi-year collaboration agreement with Rutgers University (Rutgers).
- HeartSciences and Rutgers will collaborate to develop AI-based ECG algorithms, which are expected to accelerate HeartSciences’ product development pipeline and further expand the
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UCLA Spinout PictorLabs Launches with $18.8M to Revolutionize Histopathology
What You Should Know:
- PictorLabs launches with more than $18M in financing to advance an AI-powered virtual staining platform to revolutionize histopathology, an area that has seen little change in over a century and is essential for clinical research and patient diagnoses. Investors include M Venture (Merck's corporate VC arm), SSC Soft Computer, and Koç Holding.
- Spun out of UCLA, PictorLabs replaces complex chemical-based tissue staining processes (which are time-consuming to
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How AI-Based Drug Repurposing Could Help Prevent Repetitive Behavior Disorders
Repetitive behavioral disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Tic Disorder and Tourette Syndrome have been challenging to treat because they involve considerable complexity. For example, the symptoms of one disorder can vary among individuals as does the coexistence or non-existence of other behavior disorders such as anxiety and depression. Further, the treatment of OCD, Tic Disorder and Tourette Syndrome varies depending on
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RSNA: Flywheel Builds Data Platform for Unbiased Breast Imaging AI
What You Should Know:
- Today, at RSNA, Flywheel, a leading data management platform for biomedical research and collaboration announces the creation of a federated data platform for the development of unbiased breast imaging AI.
- Funded in part by the NIH, the federated network will support breast imaging AI research and collaboration—on a scale not previously possible.
Leveraging Flywheel Discovery & Exchange
Two Flywheel technologies underpin the project. Flywheel
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RSNA: NVIDIA Partners With NHS Trusts to Deploy AI Platform in UK Hospitals
What You Should Know:
- A consortium of 10 National Health Service Trusts — the publicly funded healthcare system in England — is now deploying the MONAI-based AIDE platform across four of its hospitals, providing artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled disease-detection tools to healthcare professionals serving 5 million patients a year.
- AIDE, short for AI Deployment Engine, is expected to be rolled out next year across 11 NHS hospitals serving 18 million patients, bringing AI
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HLTH22: 6 Digital Health Executives Share Key Takeaways
We reached out to six digital health executives for their key takeaways and reflection from attending the recent HLTH22 conference.
Sunny Kumar, MD, Partner at GSR Ventures, a $3B AUM venture firm investing in early-stage digital health companies.
The most fascinating element of HLTH 2022 were the concurrent contrasts. Set against a challenging macroeconomic environment with decreases in venture funding and near-daily headlines of large layoffs cutting across the tech ecosystem,
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What Has COVID Ever Done For Us? Here 9 Examples
The early 2020s will be studied by historians as a time of global uncertainty when an unknown pathogen caused a public health emergency that brought the world to the brink.
It may also be remembered as a time of unparalleled cooperation and advancement in technologies, prompted by the Covid pandemic, that provided enduring benefits for generations to come.
Just as the two world wars of the 20th Century were the deadliest and most attritional in history, they also triggered developments in
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