COVID-19 is introducing new weaknesses to an already strained healthcare system. As healthcare providers battle an increasing influx of patients and dwindling inventory – including critical personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies like masks, ventilators, and hospital beds – they are relying more heavily on their digital tools and applications than ever before.
This is an unprecedented opportunity for health IT professionals to contribute their skills and ingenuity to the COVID-19 fight.
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Zebra Medical Vision Secures 5th FDA Clearance for Vertebral Compression Fractures AI Solution
What You Should Know:
- Israeli deep-learning medical imaging analytics startup Zebra-Med secures its fifth FDA clearance vertebral compression fractures AI solution for availability in the U.S.
- The AI solution will help health providers close the COVID-19-induced care gaps by identifying more patients at risk of osteoporosis, also known as the “silent killer,” costing over $52B in the U.S. alone.
- Zebra-Med is one of the first companies in the industry to provide an AI
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AHA Launches COVID-19 Data Challenge to Address Health Disparities Among African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans in Rural Areas
What You Need to Know:
- American Heart Association, Hitachi Vantara and BurstIQ launch COVID-19 Data Challenge to bring global COVID-19 datasets to researchers and clinicians to examine the relationship with other health conditions and health disparities.
- Each participant of the challenge will be provided a free, HIPPA compliant and FedRAMP certified, secure Precision Medicine Platform (PMP) workspace to conduct analyses.
The American Heart Association, the
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The DNA Company Acquires AI Digital Therapeutics App for $30M to Form My Next Health
What You Should Know:
- DNA Company acquires AI-based digital therapeutics app My Pain Sensei (MPS) to form My Next Health and is building a COVID-19 risk assessment platform to help people understand their risks of developing serious COVID-19 complications.
- The acquisition combines functional genomics with conversational AI for patient self-management apps and disease tracking tools designed to inform clinician-patient interactions.
Leading functional genomics provider The
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FDA Expedites Clearance for AI Ultrasound Solution to Fight COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- FDA expedites clearance of Caption Health’s AI-powered ultrasound solution to aid frontline healthcare workers in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
- Caption Health’s AI-guided imaging supports the assessment of cardiac function and decreases personnel exposure to novel coronavirus.
In response to the growing body of evidence demonstrating
the impact of COVID-19
on the heart, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expedited
clearance of an update
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Machine Learning Will Transform Medicine, but Only if We Use it Right
World chess champion Garry Kasparov made headlines all over the world in 1997 for something that he probably wasn’t very excited about. He lost a chess match. To a computer.
It was an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue and its victory in that New York City match marked the first time a reigning world chess champion had been defeated by a computer under tournament conditions. It was also a symbolically significant event, the first sign that artificial intelligence could become equal to or even
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Leveraging Big Data for Real World Clinical Analytics
Recently, as the world has watched the coronavirus crisis unfold, the power of big data to track, illustrate, and inform has taken center stage. A compelling example is the near real-time map created by Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) that shows all the cases as the disease spreads across the globe.
With far-reaching implications for healthcare, big data enables deep analysis of data from a myriad of sources – electronic medical records (EMRs), claims,
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CareCentrix Acquires Palliative Care Solution Turn-Key Health
What You Should Know:
- Home care leader CareCentrix announced its acquisition palliative care solution for health plans Turn-Key Health, a move that will help more vulnerable patients heal at home.
- The acquisition fully integrates Turn-Key’s palliative care solution into the CareCentrix platform and supports the company’s mission to meet patient needs through an entire episode of care.
- With Turn-Key’s data analytics and artificial intelligence, CareCentrix patients will
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The Impending Artificial Intelligence Revolution in Healthcare
For at least a decade, healthcare luminaries have been predicting the coming AI revolution. In other fields, AI has evolved beyond the hype and has begun to showcase real and transformative applications: autonomous vehicles, fraud detection, personalized shopping, virtual assistants, and so on. The list is long and impressive. But in healthcare, despite the expectations and the tremendous potential in improving the delivery of care, the AI revolution is just getting started. There have been
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Seattle Children’s Develops Nation’s First Opioid-Free” Surgery Center
What You Should Know:
- Seattle Children’s Hospital and its Bellevue Clinic and Surgery Center (BCSC) leveraged AI-based technology from Seattle-based MDmetrix to develop the nation’s first “opioid-free” surgery center.
- The MDmetrix Mission Control platform was used to visualize and evaluate outcomes data so that physicians could quickly adapt their surgical protocols, incorporating evidence-based best practices, to effectively manage surgical pain while reducing
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