OSF Ventures, the investment arm of OSF HealthCare has joined a $35M Series B funding round to support medical device startup Exo Imaging that’s developing a breakthrough handheld, AI ultrasound device that will allow healthcare providers to make critical, real-time diagnostic decisions.Performance Ultrasound PlatformFounded in 2015, Exo (pronounced “Echo”) is bringing diagnostic-grade medical imaging to the pocket of every caregiver and clinician worldwide. The company is developing an
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Clinithink Integrates With Healthitx HIE to Facilitate Assessment of Pre-Trial Feasibility
Clinithink and Healthix – the largest public health information exchange (HIE) in the U.S. – are partnering on a program designed to leverage Healthix clinical data to facilitate assessment of pre-trial feasibility, ensuring the validity of protocol design. The new program aims to improve population health in New York City and Long Island by eventually making cutting-edge treatments available to patients.Healthix Data & Clinithink AI – A Blueprint for InsightWith health data of over 17
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HLTH & ATA Partner Up to Highlight Telehealth Solutions, Virtual Care Adoption
HLTH, the largest and most important conference for healthcare innovation announced a new partnership with ATA, the premier organization working to accelerate the adoption of telehealth, to showcase innovations in virtual care that will change the way care is ultimately delivered.Telehealth solutions include digital health, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual care, remote monitoring, and digital therapeutics (DTx), as well as 'store-and-forward' or asynchronous technologies that securely
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What’s AI’s Holdup in Healthcare? The Answer Is In The Cloud
When you consider what technology has the most potential to transform healthcare over the next decade and beyond, no doubt your first thoughts turn to artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL). Already these technologies are showing promise in helping clinicians work faster and smarter, identifying trends, alerting us to signs that can predict and prevent diseases, and providing insights into potential treatments and cures.
But AI, ML, and DL alone cannot
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Rite Aid’s New CEO, CommonSpirit Health Appoints First Chief Information and Digital Officer, Geisinger’s Chief Nursing Exec, Other Health IT Appointments
Rite Aid Corporation appoints Heyward Donigan as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a member of the Board, effective immediately. John Standley will step down from his role as chief executive officer. Prior to joining Rite Aid, Donigan served as the president and chief executive officer of Sapphire Digital (formerly Vitals), which designs and develops omnichannel platforms that help consumers choose their best-fit healthcare providers.
Since 2015, Donigan lead Sapphire Digital's strategy and
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K Health Integrates with Health Gorilla’s API to Power Lab Orders
K Health, a digital health company that offers free personalized healthcare, and Health Gorilla, a leader in secure interoperability solutions announced an integration collaboration to power new clinical functionality to improve the primary care experience. With the new integration, K Health can now leverage Health Gorilla's FHIR-based APIs to place orders with diagnostic vendors.Integration BenefitsK Health’s AI-driven primary care solution allows users to see how doctors diagnose and treat
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Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance, Amazon Partner on Machine Learning Research Sponsorship
Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) announced today that it is working closely with Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, through a machine learning research sponsorship, to advance innovation in areas such as cancer diagnostics, precision medicine, voice-enabled technologies and medical imaging.Leveraging Machine Learning to Power Medical ResearchA unique consortium formed four years ago by UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the PHDA uses
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Research: Half of Hospital Leaders Plan to Invest in AI by 2021
Half of hospital leaders plan to invest in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic process automation (RPA) solutions by 2021, according to a new study conducted by Olive AI that reveals AI adoption healthcare is still in its infancy. The study explores how hospital leaders are responding to the imperative to drive efficiency and reduce costs through strategic investments in non-clinical technologies. Conducted in partnership with Sage Growth Partners, the survey respondents included 115
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Ethical Concerns of AI in Healthcare: Can AI Do More Harm Than Good?
The AI doctor can see you now, but it shouldn't treat you until ethics are in place. Professor Timothy Casey explains.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ethics—once mythical adversaries only on-screen like in “The Terminator” circa 1984— are now actually at virtual odds in 2019. This time, there are no catchy slogans like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “I’ll be back,” but the moral question has returned:
Does AI’s transformative power have the ability to do more harm to humankind than good?
That is the
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Research: July Digital Health IPOs, M&A Activity, Public Company Performance Summary
Summary of Health IT/digital IPOs, merger & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of July.
Digital Health IPOs in July
Breaking the digital health IPO drought, there were four initial public offerings (IPOs) during a five-week period from late June to late July, including Livongo, Health Catalyst, Phreesia, and Change Healthcare. The last health IT companies to reach IPO were iRhythym Technologies and Tabula Rasa Healthcare in late 2016 -
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