Vital, an Atlanta, GA-based AI-powered software increasing productivity and improving patient health in hospital emergency rooms has raised $5.2M led by First Round Capital and Threshold Ventures (formerly DFJ Venture). The seed round also includes participation from Bragiel Brothers, Meridian Street Capital, Refactor Capital, and SV Angel, with angel investment from Vivek Garipalli, CEO of CloverHealth; and Nat Turner and Zach Weinberg, founders of Flatiron Health. Josh Kopelman, founder, and
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Mayo Clinic, ASU Unveils Six Digital Health Startups for Inaugural MedTech Accelerator Cohort
The MedTech Accelerator, a collaborative effort between Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University has announced the selection of six digital health startups for its inaugural cohort. The MedTech Accelerator provides medical device and healthcare IT early-stage companies with personalized business development plans to collaborate with Mayo Clinic and ASU and accelerate go to market and investment opportunities. Benefits of Accelerator for Selected StartupsThe immersive experience will help
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Innovaccer Launches AI-Powered Pediatric Care Management Solution
Innovaccer Inc., a San Francisco-based data activation company, today announced the launch of its Pediatrics Care Management solution specifically designed to bring the entire care network together to fulfill every child’s needs. The solution will assist pediatric care organizations in bringing together information that spans across multiple venues, clinicians, and stages of life.Pediatric-Specific Measures Are Not Widely AvailableValue-based payment reforms have made quite an impact on US
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What The Failure of Microsoft’s HealthVault Means for the Future of EHRs
Microsoft recently announced that it is officially shutting down HealthVault at the end of this year. HealthVault was Microsoft’s attempt at a web-based personal health record system. You probably never used it -- it suffered low adoption. But while HealthVault will shut down, mobile apps that collect and store your personal health information and share it with your healthcare team are poised to revolutionize medicine and wellness practice.
The downfalls of HealthVault included its focus on
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PathAI Lands $60M to Accelerate AI-Powered Pathology Platform
PathAI, a Boston, MA-based provider of AI-powered pathology platform has raised $60M in Series B funding led by General Atlantic with strong participation from General Catalyst and other existing investors. General Atlantic Managing Director Dr. Michelle Dipp will be joining PathAI’s board of directors.Advanced Learning Towards Faster More Accurate Diagnosis of DiseaseCo-founded by Chief Executive Officer Dr. Andy Beck in 2016 with the mission to offer faster, safer and more powerful solutions
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CHLA Announces 10 Semi-Finalists from Gamifying Pediatrics Hackathon
The Innovation Studio at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), today announced10 semi-finalists from the first ever Gamifying Pediatrics Hackathon, which took place April 12-14, 2019 at BCG Digital Ventures (BCGDV) in Manhattan Beach (CA), the global corporate venture and incubation arm of the Boston Consulting Group. This hackathon brought together 185 enthusiastic participants, including physicians and nurses on the front lines of pediatric medicine, engineers, developers, and experts in
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Medidata Launches New Life Sciences Company, Acorn AI
Life sciences digital transformation company Medidata, today announced the launch of Acorn AI, a new company designed to provide actionable insights across the entire drug continuum – from R&D to commercialization. In addition, the company has appointed Rama Kondru, Ph.D., as the chief information officer for Medidata and Acorn AI’s first CIO to lead the company’s enterprise data strategy, architecture and future platform development – all helping the company to accelerate the creation of
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5 Disruptive Technologies Driving The Future of Patient Monitoring Solutions
The patient monitoring market is expected to be worth more than $350 billion by 2025, as the focus is likely to move beyond device
sales to solutions, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan's report.
The report, Patient
Monitoring Industry—Analysis of Investment and Trends outlines the
future of patient monitoring across the continuum of care, the shifts in the
market, and investment opportunities.
Evolution of
Patient Monitoring
Patient monitoring has evolved from
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Disruptive Dozen: 12 Emerging AI Technologies Impacting Healthcare
Today during the 2019 World Innovation Forum, Partners HealthCare unveiled its selections for the fifth annual “Disruptive Dozen,” an annual list of 12 emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with the greatest potential to impact healthcare in the next year.
Disruptive Dozen Overview & Criteria
The annual 12 most disruptive technologies are selected through a rigorous process by Partners HealthCare thought leaders, clinicians, and researchers. Interview results from nearly
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NVIDIA, American College of Radiology Partner to Accelerate AI for Diagnostic Radiology
NVIDIA and the American College of Radiology are teaming up to enable thousands of radiologists nationwide to create and use AI for diagnostic radiology in their own facilities, using their own data, to meet their own clinical needs. The announcement follows a successful three-month pilot program by both parties, ACR is integrating the NVIDIA Clara AI toolkit into the newly announced ACR Data Science Institute ACR AI-LAB.ACR AI-LAB BackgroundACR AI-LAB is a free software platform that will be
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