Daniel Kus, VP of Pharmacy Services at Henry Ford Health System Troy Polan, acting CEO of ExceleraRx Corp
Value-based care initiatives matured in recent years thanks to exciting new technology and influential policy changes. But the coming decade will see transformative changes that will eventually lead to a uniform realization of value-based care across the entire healthcare continuum.
Specialty pharmacy represents one area of healthcare that is wholeheartedly welcoming a discussion
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Biofourmis Acquires Digital Therapeutics Oncology Startup Gaido Health
What You Should Know:
- Boston-based digital therapeutics startup Biofourmis acquires LA-based Gaido Health from Takeda Pharmaceuticals, in a strategic deal that expands Biofourmis’ portfolio in the oncology space.
- Gaido Health—a digital therapeutics company focused on the oncology market—was part of Takeda Digital Ventures, Takeda’s corporate technology investment and incubation arm.
- With Gaido Health’s and Biofourmis’ dual focus on remote monitoring with wearables
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OnScale Launches ‘Digital Twins’ of Lungs to Improve COVID-19 Patients Outcomes
What You Should Know:
- OnScale announced the kickoff of the Project BreatheEasy by leveraging massively scalable cloud bioengineering simulation and AI to create “Digital Twins” of the lungs of COVID-19 patients.
- The goal of the project is to optimize the utilization of limited ventilator and respiratory equipment and improve patient outcomes.
- OnScale is currently testing the solution with medical experts and is actively seeking additional partners and advisors.
OnScale, a
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Intel Launches $50M Pandemic Response Technology Initiative to Combat Coronavirus
What You Should Know:
- Intel pledges an additional $50 million in a pandemic response technology initiative to combat the coronavirus through accelerating access to technology at the point of patient care.
- Intel is committed to accelerating access to technology that can combat the current COVID-19 pandemic and enable new technology and the scientific discovery that better prepares society for future crises.
Intel is pledging an additional $50 million in a pandemic response
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New AI-Based Fever Detection Cameras for Crowds Help Limit Coronavirus Spread
What You Should Know:
- Kogniz Health launches an AI-camera solution that can scan groups and crowds and detect who may have a coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms so they can be isolated.
- Starting at $10k for one single device, the solution uses specialized camera technologies and an artificial intelligence-based software platform, the solution scans crowds in real-time and identifies anyone with an elevated temperature.
- During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is critical
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How Location Technology Can Ensure the Safety of Healthcare Workers
Mohsen Hekmatyar, VP of Sales, Security Solutions with CenTrak,
Healthcare can be a dangerous industry. Danger may not be what one immediately associates with places of healing and medicine, but consider everything that healthcare workers go through every day. It’s not uncommon for them to find themselves walking into the rooms of patients who are experiencing mental distress or interacting with aggressive visitors searching for an outlet for their emotions.
According to OSHA, the
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Mayo Clinic in Florida Uses Autonomous Vehicles to Transport COVID-19 Test Samples
What You Should Know:
The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA), Beep
Inc. and NAVYA partner with Mayo Clinic to use autonomous vehicles to safely
transport COVID-19 samples on their Jacksonville Campus.
Since March 30th, up to four autonomous
vehicles began operating along an initial route, in full autonomous mode
without attendants or other people onboard, to transport COVID-19 tests from a
drive-thru testing site to a processing laboratory on Mayo Clinic campus.
The
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Healthcare Data Infrastructure Security Cannot Be Ignored During a Pandemic
Roberto Ramon Garcia VP of Product Strategy & Engineering at Globalscape
The rapid advancement of technology has inspired hope in the healthcare industry, promising to employ artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based data platforms in life-altering ways. Surgery assisting robots and miraculously accurate AI-based cancer diagnosis methods are a few preliminary examples of what the industry can expect. With all these great technological strides being taken, however, compliance can
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Analysis: Applying AI in the Fight Against The Coronavirus
Dr. Ulrik Kristensen, Senior Market Analyst at Signify Research
Drug discovery is a notoriously long, complex and expensive process requiring the concerted efforts of the world’s brightest minds. The complexity in understanding human physiology and molecular mechanisms is increasing with every new research paper published and for every new compound tested. As the world is facing a new challenge in trying to both adapt to and defend itself against the coronavirus, artificial intelligence is
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Olive Lands $51M to Power AI-Powered Digital Employee Platform
What You Should Know:
- Olive, a company automates healthcare’s most robotic processes raises $51M in funding led by General Catalyst.
- Olive automates healthcare’s most costly, high-volume tasks using the building blocks of artificial intelligence: robotic process automation, computer vision, and machine learning.
- Working alongside healthcare employees, Olive is trained to think cognitively and make complex decisions faster, and more accurately than human employees
Olive,
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