What You Should Know:
- Ubie, Inc., a Tokyo-based healthcare startup, announced it has closed its Series C round at $45M by raising $19M in an extension round. The new funding will enable Ubie to accelerate its growth and strengthen its presence in the U.S., following strong interest and traction in that market. To date, Ubie has raised $76 million in total.
- With AI as its core technology, Ubie provides AI symptom checker Ubie as the gateway to medical care. It will also focus on
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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare | News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Protecting AI’s Boundless Potential in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence can do amazing things for patients, providers and the healthcare business — but only if the right cyber safeguards are in place.
For more than a decade, a cybercrime syndicate known as Evil Corp has tormented organizations around the world with malware and ransomware attacks. And now, it seems, the group has designs on healthcare companies.
“Evil Corp should be considered a significant threat to the U.S. health sector,” the Health Sector Cybersecurity
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4 Roadblocks Hindering The Promise of Predictive Analytics
COVID-19 will likely impact and strain healthcare systems for many years to come — possibly even forever. As its attention wanes, we need technology to step in and tell us when and how to act next. What if there was a way to predict the next COVID-19 surge months before it affected operations? How many beds will be available? PPE? Where will you need to allocate additional resources and staff? What other seasonal uptick of disease will it align with? Will our revenue take a
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Orbita Platform Increases Annual Revenue by $4M for Ohio Gastro
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- Specialty group Ohio Gastroenterology expands its use of Orbita’s conversational AI platform after success in implementing its patient self-service features. Healthcare-specific, the secure Orbita platform leverages natural language processing to understand words and phrases people are comfortable with, rather than forcing them to use clinical terms. Conversational AI technologies help guide patients through thoughtful dialogs, which pose
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Can Doctors Objectively Quantify and Measure Pain?
Millions of Americans live with acute and chronic pain that affects every aspect of their lives. Pain by itself is an important marker of how a patient is feeling and indicates what kind of medical intervention might be necessary. The healthcare industry needs a clinically acceptable way to objectively measure pain and since pain is a very complex mixture of biochemistry and genetics and it’s unlikely that a laboratory test that directly quantifies pain will be developed.
Doctors
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New Liquid Biopsy Detects Breast Cancer at Its Earliest Stages
What You Should Know:
- Exai Bio and researchers at UCSF released data demonstrating that Exai’s novel, RNA-based liquid biopsy platform accurately detected breast cancer at the earliest stages and smallest tumor sizes.
- Earlier detection of breast cancer is crucial for optimal patient outcomes but cannot always be achieved based on symptoms or mammography.
Non-Invasive Blood-Based Platform Delivers Promising Data on Detecting Breast Cancer At It’s Earliest Stages
Exai Bio is a
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Intel Labs & Penn Medicine Uses Privacy-Preserving AI to Identify Brain Tumors
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- Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) have completed a joint research study using federated learning – a distributed machine learning (ML) artificial intelligence (AI) approach – to help international healthcare and research institutions identify malignant brain tumors.
- The largest medical federated learning study to date with an unprecedented global dataset examined from 71 institutions across six
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AI Improving the Patient Experience of Cancer Care
For cancer patients and their loved ones, days, weeks, and months matter. In fact, anyone who has waited anxiously for test results or a treatment regimen to begin can attest that hours, or even minutes, will drag on with emotional heaviness. From a clinical standpoint as well, time to treatment significantly impacts outcomes. All suspected cancers should be ruled out or confirmed with a diagnosis so treatment can begin as soon as possible. Similarly, patients with incidental findings—masses or
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Elevance Health Launches AI-Driven Nutrition Tracker
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- Elevance Health -- formerly Anthem, Inc. has announced the expansion of its Sydney Health application with the addition of a nutrition tracker function driven by artificial intelligence (AI). The new feature, called Nutrition Tracker, recognizes foods or an entire meal, providing virtual nutrition advice to improve affiliated health plan members’ overall health and well-being.
- Using smartphone cameras and typing-free nutrition tracking, affiliated health plan
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Improving Patient Access to Med Services Named Top Priority for Health Systems
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- Improving patient access to medical services remains a top priority for U.S. health systems as they grapple with economic uncertainty and the continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has altered patient behavior, according to a new report from the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM) and KLAS Research.
- To address the challenge, health systems are investing in telehealth technology, patient portals and other digital tools, updating their organizational
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