While the public perceives artificial intelligence as futuristic, AI is already intertwined with healthcare today. As a PwC report observed, AI is transforming numerous aspects of healthcare, from medical training and research to wellness and treatment. But while AI is already supercharging our capabilities (it’s 30 times faster and 99 percent accurate when reviewing mammograms, reducing the need for unnecessary biopsies, for example), AI is also supercharging the disparities that are baked into
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Star Trek-Inspired Bed for X-Ray Medical Imaging Raises $26M
- Israeli digital health startup Nanox raises $26M to support the commercialization and deployment of its Star Trek-inspired medical bed for end-to-end X-ray medical imaging service. - The Nanox System is composed of the Nanox.Arc, a novel digital X-ray device and the Nanox.Cloud, a companion cloud-based software that will be designed to provide an end-to-end medical imaging service. NANO-X IMAGING LTD. (“Nanox” or the “Company”), an Neve Ilan, Israel-based innovative medical imaging technology
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Leveraging AI and Machine Learning to Advance Interoperability in Healthcare
(Left- Wilson To, Head of Worldwide Healthcare BD, Amazon Web Services (AWS) & Patrick Combes, Worldwide Technical Leader - Healthcare and Life Sciences at Amazon Web Services (AWS)- Right)Navigating the healthcare system is often a complex journey involving multiple physicians from hospitals, clinics, and general practices. At each junction, healthcare providers collect data that serve as pieces in a patient’s medical puzzle. When all of that data can be shared at each point, the puzzle is
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EarlySign, Maccabi Healthcare Launches AI-Powered Flu Vaccination Campaign
- Medial EarlySign unveils the first clinical implementation of its AI-based solution to identify unvaccinated individuals at high-risk of developing serious flu-related complications.- Developed in collaboration with leading Israeli HMO Maccabi Healthcare Services, the implementation utilizes existing EHR data to identify and stratify patients at high risk.Medial EarlySign, a Israeli-based provider of machine learning-based solutions to aid in the early detection and prevention of high-burden
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Change Healthcare Unveils Breakthrough All-Payer Medical Claim Attachments Capability
- Change Healthcare unveils industry’s first nationwide solution that allows providers to submit documents and data, like claims attachments, electronically to all health plans in both the Medical and Workers’ Compensation market segments.- This new claim attachments solution also sets the stage for new additional uses of Artificial Intelligence.Today Change Healthcare announced major new enhancements to its medical claim attachments solution. These enhancements will create the industry’s first
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Cerner Extends On-Site & Near-Site Health Center Experience with 24/7 Digital Primary Care
- Cerner selects HealthTap to further extend healthcare experiences beyond on-site and near-site health and pharmacy centers through HealthTap’s comprehensive digital primary care, including text and video visits and searchable content written by physicians. - Cerner clients using HealthTap’s digital primary care physician network can offer their employees the ability to connect with a U.S.-based, board-certified physician 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on-demand. Cerner Corporation is
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Zipnosis, GYANT Launch Holistic Digital Front Door for Healthcare Orgs
- Zipnosis and GYANT join forces to offer a more intuitive and accessible digital patient experience with a digital front door for healthcare organizations.
- The new joint solution combines GYANT’s chat-based AI patient engagement and evaluation capabilities with Zipnosis’ virtual and asynchronous care capabilities to improve the digital patient experience throughout the entire care journey, while simultaneously efficiently utilizing staff resources and improving care.
Zipnosis, a
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7 Trends Impacting The Design of Healthcare Environments in 2020
SmithGroup one of the nation’s leading integrated design firms has tapped its broad network of 1,300 interdisciplinary design professionals to offer its predictions for the trends and challenges that the design industry will face in the decade ahead. Here are seven trends that are likely to impact the design of health care environments in the 2020s. 1. Adapting to the Climate Crisis“In the last couple of years, the impacts of climate change are increasingly viewed as a global crisis, and I
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3 AI Trends for 2020: Moving Beyond Dazzle to High-Impact Collaboration
From the first artificial skin to driverless cars that navigate busy streets with ease, 2019 brought a dazzling array of artificial intelligence (AI) discovery. In 2020, the progress made toward AI-fueled collaboration will be as critical as AI innovation—especially in healthcare.
We’ve reached a point where AI has proven its utility. In radiology, for example, AI is well-oriented to interpret diagnostic imaging studies, with FDA approval given to AI algorithms that diagnose a collapsed lung or
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3 Healthcare Cybersecurity Trends to Watch in 2020
The healthcare industry frequently struggles with data breaches and other cybersecurity incidents. That's likely because cybercriminals know the value of medical data. It's also problematic that healthcare information often gets passed between multiple parties and organizations, some of which may have insufficient security practices.
Attacks from malicious actors aren't ceasing, which means healthcare cybersecurity must remain a priority in 2020. But, what, specifically, should parties
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