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Eko Health today announced the launch of its next-generation AI-enhanced digital stethoscope, CORE 500™. Engineered to enhance diagnostic accuracy and early disease detection, the CORE 500™ combines artificial intelligence (AI) software, high-fidelity audio experience, full-color display, and 3-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) to deliver an essential patient assessment tool for healthcare professionals (HCPs).
CORE 500 Features
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AWS Launches $100M Generative AI Center to Accelerate Healthcare, Life Sciences
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Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced an investment of $100M to launch the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, with healthcare and life sciences as a prioritized industry (alongside Financial Services, Energy & Utilities, Telco, and others). The AWS Generative AI Innovation Center will connect AWS AI and machine learning (ML) experts with customers around the globe to help them envision, design, and launch new generative AI products, services, and
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RCM: Why Generative AI is Needed for Prior Authorization Reform
The headline-grabbing emergence of generative AI platforms, such as ChatGPT, BARD and BingGPT, has forced leaders across all verticals to ask, “What can we optimize with AI?” The AI chatbots remain in early stages of their development, but they have shown enough promise to suggest their full arrival is imminent. Every industry is currently weighing the best way to deploy AI, and that includes healthcare, where efficiency and improved workflows can make a tangible impact on the care that patients
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Smart Eye Will Monitor Driver’s Vital Signs to Enhance Road Safety
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Smart Eye, a developer of Driver Monitoring System (DMS) technology for the automotive industry adds vital signs detection that analyzes multiple physiological signals to remotely monitor heart and respiration rates, enabling detection of sudden illness and prioritizing driver well-being.
By tracking the driver's physiological indicators, this new feature enables the early detection of sudden illnesses or unresponsive behavior while operating a vehicle. This
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Medtronic, Allurion Launches AI-Powered Weight Loss Pilot
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Allurion, a company dedicated to ending obesity launches a pilot collaboration agreement with Medtronic to expand access to Allurion’s AI-powered weight loss program through a sales agency agreement in the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (CEMA) region.The partnership enables Allurion to offer the Allurion Balloon and accelerate utilization of the Allurion Iris Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform in the management of bariatric surgery patients
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DUOS Raises $10M to Empower Older Adults to Live Independently
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DUOS, a digital health company focused on empowering older adults to live independently, announced today an additional $10M in funding led by Primetime Partners, SJF Ventures, and CEOC's Aging Innovation Fund managed by Castellan Group. Founded in 2020, DUOS focuses on older adults' aging needs and maximizes their well-being by connecting them with untapped health plan benefits and building high-trust relationships. The DUOS' System of Aging technology connects
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Medical AI: AccurKardia Secures $2.7M for Clinical Grade ECG Analytics
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AccurKardia, Inc., a New York-based medical AI software company delivering clinical-grade ECG interpretation software to cardiac monitoring companies raises $2.7M in seed funding led by Popular Impact Fund alongside other private investors. AccurKardia combines proprietary AI and non-AI-based techniques to provide near-real-time ECG analytics in the cloud, on device and at the edge
Clinical-grade, device-agnostic, API-accessible ECG analytics.
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Outbound AI Raises $16M for AI-Powered Virtual Agents
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Outbound AI, a Seattle-based conversational AI platform for healthcare announced it has raised $16M in seed funding co-led by Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group and SpringRock Ventures.Founded in 2021, Outbound AI is breaking new ground with cloud technologies that serve as workforce multipliers to drive productivity while improving the daily job experience for human talent. The company’s inaugural offering includes a portfolio of AI-powered virtual agents
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Revenue Cycle: 3 Reasons Why Waiting for AI Adoption is Costly
Few can miss the increasing role of AI in healthcare. In revenue cycle management (RCM), the last few years have seen the emergence of new technologies for coding and billing. These tools take advantage of natural language processing, deep learning, and other advancements that enable results far superior to the rules-based robotic process automation of the prior generation.
For example, take medical coding. Healthcare providers have historically relied on teams of medical coders – people
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AWS, Allen Institute to Map Whole Human Brain to Advance Treatment for Brain Disorders
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AWS and Allen Institute for Brain Science are collaborating on a five-year project to create the largest open source database of brain cell data in the world named the Brain Knowledge Platform (BKP). The strategic global collaboration for the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) with participation from 17 other institutions around the globe including MIT and Princeton will pinpoint precisely why diseases like
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