VRHealth, a Boston and Israel-based digital health company providing specialized virtual reality (VR) technology solutions and data analysis, today announced the launch of the first telehealth-VR medical platform that includes apps specifically designed for consumers to use at home. VR Health is participating in AARP Innovation Labs. As part of the company’s collaboration with AARP, VRhealth has a residency in AARP Innovation Lab and is integrating core features of its product into the “Health
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Infographic: Artificial Intelligence’s Role in Improving Healthcare
The artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare market is expected reach $6.6 billion by 2021, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40 percent over the next five years, according to a report from Accenture. AI in health represents a collection of multiple technologies enabling machines to sense, comprehend, act and learn so they can perform administrative and clinical healthcare functions. Unlike legacy technologies that are only algorithms/ tools that complement a human, health AI
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VMT Lands Grant to Enable Accurate Extraction of Clinical Outcomes from Real World Evidence (RWE)
The National Science Foundation, today announced a grant to VMT for developing technology focused on pragmatic clinical trials allowing clinical outcomes to be extracted from real-world data. VMT is a medical technology incubation firm, developing and commercializing cutting-edge healthcare products to address critical healthcare needs. The approach uses artificial intelligence to dive deep into the electronic health record (EHR) for outcome data to enable EHR-based pragmatic clinical trials.
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How Artificial Intelligence Will Help Transform Personal Health in 2019
Artificial intelligence technology has made great strides in the last decade, with AI models outperforming humans in various tasks, from image recognition to election forecasting to reading comprehension. In the coming years, the range of domains in which AI excels will only expand.One field for which AI promises major disruption in healthcare. This is largely due to three major factors: The incredibly complex nature of the human body and the healthcare system that treats it, and the explosion
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Alegeus Launches AI-driven HSA Plans to Deliver A Smarter Healthcare Funding Experience
Alegeus, a market leader in consumer-driven health accounts announced this week the launch of their new Smart HSA platform initiative that can help plan participants identify potential cost savings and untapped plan benefits based on past usage. The platform, which has just begun its first series of pilot tests, will feature machine learning and artificial intelligence to transform the healthcare funding market in ways that have never been seen before that deliver a simpler, smarter healthcare
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Hill-Rom and EarlySense Launch Smart Hospital Bed w/ Integrated Monitoring Technology
Hill-Rom, a global provider of medical technologies and the world’s leading hospital bed manufacturer, today announced that EarlySense, the market leader in contact-free continuous monitoring solutions across the care continuum, has integrated its continuous contact-free heart rate and respiratory rate sensing and analytics technology into Hill-Rom’s Centrella® Smart+ bed platform.The Rise of the Smart Hospital BedThe hospital bed -a consistent fixture in every hospital room- now takes on an
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MaxQ AI Partners with EnvoyAI to Distribute Accipio Artificial Intelligence Solutions to Acute Care Market
MaxQ AI, a clinical diagnostics intelligence platform announced that it has completed a distribution agreement with EnvoyAI, a subsidiary of TeraRecon. This partnership will give physicians access to its full Accipio intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) detection platform.Coming out of this year’s RSNA annual meeting in Chicago, MaxQ continues to build momentum and strategic partnerships that will rapidly bring the company’s AI solutions to the acute care market. Leading up to and during RSNA, MaxQ
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How Longitudinal Data Mining Can Help Payers Achieve the Triple Aim
Investing in longitudinal data mining can help payers achieve the triple aim of lowering costs and drive healthier outcomes for its members. Overpayment of healthcare providers has always been an area of concern for health payers. But it has never held the urgency it does today. Rising costs and the ever-increasing complexity of the healthcare delivery and payment system can cause overpayment losses to health plans in the millions of dollars. Payers are then forced to raise premiums to the point
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HSHS integrates SeamlessMD with Epic EHR Using New SMART on FHIR
Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) has announced its first ever integration using the new SMART on FHIR platform with Epic and SeamlessMD to deliver a unified experience for patient engagement. Starting with the Prairie Heart Institute at HSHS St. John’s Hospital, the health system is using SeamlessMD within the EpicCare environment to deliver patient engagement, enable care management, and leverage artificial intelligence to improve patient outcomes.Since 2017, Prairie Heart Institute has
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Artificial Intelligence at RSNA18 Shows Signs of Maturity, But a Long Way to Go
AI was once again the hot topic at this year’s RSNA. With close to 60 AI start-ups in the Machine Learning Showcase and most of the incumbent modality and imaging IT vendors marketing AI to varying degrees, the technology was hard to ignore at this year’s meeting. Cutting through the inevitable hype, it was clear that vendors are making progress with bringing AI solutions into the daily workflows of radiologists and other imaging specialists. From our discussions with radiologists and from the
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