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 infection, ensuring troop readiness and protection against
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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
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 response. Meanwhile, they have also seen their training
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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
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 comes shortly after the first implementation of such technology in both
France and the UK.
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Change Healthcare Acquires Cloud-Native Imaging Platform Nucleus.io
What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare acquires Nucleus.io to create the first of its kind end-to-end, cloud-native Enterprise Imaging to integrate Change Healthcare’s next-generation medical imaging platform.
- The acquisition will accelerate Change Healthcare’s
timeline to implement a complete cloud-based, end-to-end Enterprise Imaging
solution with customers by leveraging the 7,500+ organizations Nucleus.io
currently serves.
Change Healthcare (Nasdaq: CHNG) today announced the
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Castor Raises $12M to Advance COVID-19 Research Through Clinical Trial and Data Automation
What You Should Know:
- Castor raises $12M in Series A funding to further their
support for COVID-19 research through clinical trial and data automation.
- With 4,000 live studies and 2,000,000 enrolled patients
across 90 countries, Castor will use the funding to further invest in enabling
patient-centric, data-powered clinical trials.
Castor, a Hoboken,
New Jersey startup using automation and data reuse to simplify the entire
clinical trial process, announced $12M in Series A
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CurieAI Launches AI-Driven Platform for COVID-19 Respiratory Monitoring and Management
What You Should Know:
- SRI Ventures spin-off CurieAI announces the launch of
its AI-driven COVID-19 case management platform
- The Curie solution has been deployed to monitor
inpatients and outpatients at San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation (SCAHC).
CurieAI, a Menlo
Park, CA-based healthcare startup spun-off from SRI
Ventures, the corporate venture arm of SRI International, today announced
the release of CurieAI’s first-of-its-kind AI-driven
platform specifically designed for
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