- InterSystems and Virtusa Corporation partner to enhance the healthcare data integration capabilities of its vLife™ life sciences platform.- The Collaboration will create an advanced platform for healthcare data management, research and analytics.InterSystems, and Virtusa Corporation, a global provider of digital strategy, digital engineering, and IT services and solutions have announced their partnership in an effort to drive positive patient outcomes while reducing cost through improved
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Orbita Launches Voice-Enabled, AI-Driven Bedside Virtual Health Assistant
- Conversational AI leader announces OrbitaASSIST, a digitally reimagined voice-powered, AI-driven virtual health assistant proven to improve patient communication at the bedside. - Research shows as much as 70% reduction in median response time to calls for help, 87% of nurses feeling more confident in responding to calls, and 100% of patients preferring it for future hospitalization.Orbita, the provider of healthcare's most powerful conversational AI platform, announced today that it is now
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Heart Failure is Detectable at Point of Care Using ECG-Enabled Stethoscope, Mayo Clinic and Eko Finds
- Eko and Mayo Clinic announced they have proven that heart failure is detectable during routine physical exams, further validating the Eko DUO digital stethoscopes as a heart failure screening tool. - Today’s news marks the first time that a point of care device with a single lead ECG combined with an AI algorithm identified low ejection fraction in patients.- The results of these findings, which are comparable to research published earlier this year in NatureMedicine, were presented over the
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Life Image, Graticule Launches Imaging Dataset In AWS Data Exchange
- Life Image and Graticule announced the availability of GLIMPS (Graticule Life Image Machine Parsed Set) data licensing subscriptions in AWS Data Exchange. - GLIMPS (Graticule Life Image Machine Parsed Set) is a de-identified patient-level data set including a summary of features generated from NLP processing on Life Image data. - The goal of GLIMPS is to provide a cost-effective patient-level snapshot to biopharma data science teams to fuel the necessary discussions about these data, leading
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FDA Clears AI-Powered EchoGo Core for Early Detection of Cardiovascular Disease
- Ultromics has just become one of the first companies to have 510(k) FDA clearance for an AI medical device. - EchoGo will now be available for clinicians in the UK and US to use to help them identify cardiovascular disease earlier. - EchoGo automates cardiac measurements and is the first AI application to measure cardiac strain, improving patient care and outcomes.Ultromics, the UK-based health technology firm at the forefront of applying artificial intelligence to echocardiography has
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Deloitte, Amazon Web Services Partner to Create New Health Ecosystems Through Data
- Deloitte is now working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its new cloud-based service AWS Data Exchange to help organizations quickly and easily find, access and share data from other institutions securely.- Deloitte and AWS Data Exchange together will help organizations and researchers uncover the value created from the vast amounts of data generated throughout the healthcare ecosystem. Most of this data has been inaccessible – and if it is accessible, it’s difficult to find and obtain. -
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Artificial Intelligence’s Need for Health Data – Finding An Ethical Balance
With doctors’ time in short supply, one area in which AI-driven tools could help transform healthcare is by increasing diagnostic accuracy. AI-driven diagnostic tools, especially in areas like cardiology, have the potential to save the healthcare system money and most importantly save lives. They are developed using incomprehensibly large datasets and can, therefore, discover patterns that are invisible to the human eye.
For example, echo-based tools combined with deep clinical insight,
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Baystate Health’s Innovation Arm, Life Image Partner on AI Initiative for Cancer Research & Treatment
- Baystate Health selects Life Image to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to advance cancer research and increase treatment access. - Life Image will work with Baystate’s innovation arm, TechSpring, to develop and evaluate AI solutions to improve treatment decisions and clinical trial matching for cancer patients.Baystate Health, a Boston-based integrated health system serving more than 800,000 patients in western New England, today announced a strategic partnership with Life Image, the
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Philips Debuts AI-Driven Clinical Solution for Aiding Cognitive Assessment in the U.S.
- Philips IntelliSpace Cognition provides U.S. healthcare professionals with a powerful aid for assessing cognitive impairments due to neurological conditions.
- Philips has invested in collecting insights from both neurologists and neuropsychologists in order to design IntelliSpace Cognition in an iterative manner and ensure it fits into the majority of existing workflows.
- IntelliSpace Cognition will initially be commercially available only in the U.S.
Philips, a global leader in
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Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ with Ascension Has Been Secretly Collecting Millions of Patient Records
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- Google has been secretly working with St. Louis-based Ascension on an initiative code-named “Project Nightingale” to gather millions of patient records across 21 states since last year, reports The Wall Street Journal.
- The collected data includes patient names, date of birth (DOB), lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records to provide a complete health history.
- After the WSJ article, Ascension officially announced its collaboration with
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