Front row (left to right): Jian Chen, Vice President, Xian Janssen Pharmaceuticals; Dan Wang, Head, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Asia Pacific; Sharona Tao, Leader, Communications & Public Affairs, Johnson & Johnson China; Jennifer Yang, Head, Lung Cancer Initiative China, Johnson & Johnson Back row (left to right): Alex Zhavoronkov, Founder & CEO, Insilico Medicine; Li Peng, Assistant General Manager, Taikang Online Insurance; Gary Ge, Founder, Diannei
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Israeli Startup Deploys AI-based Solution for Prostate Cancer Detection
Pathologists at CorePlus review a cancer heatmap generated using Ibex Medical Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Ibex Medical Analytics announces the first U.S.
deployment of its AI-powered solution for cancer detection in pathology, at the
CorePlus Servicios Clínicos y Patológicos, LLC, a leading clinical and anatomic
pathology lab in Puerto Rico.
- The deployment will improve cancer care in the U.S.,
where the number of pathologists decreased by nearly 20% in the past decade.
This
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Machine Learning Will Transform Medicine, but Only if We Use it Right
Natalie LaFranzo, Ph.D. is VP, Market Development of Cofactor Genomics
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,
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UChicago Medicine Selects Life Image’s Breast Health Data Tool
- UChicago Medicine working with Mammosphere by Life Image to allow patients easy, secure access to their breast imaging and to support the WISDOM Study to establish screening guidelines. - Mammosphere was developed to support women throughout their entire breast health journey, including contributing to scientific research. By offering patients this digital tool, patients in the WISDOM Study will have additional tools to support their long-term commitment to the research.Life Image, the world’s
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Geisinger Launches Solution for Women to Request, Store, and Share Breast Health Records
- Geisinger has selected Life Image’s Mammosphere solution to enhance its breast health care offering for women. - Mammosphere is a digital tool that allows women to request, store, and share their breast health records, including prior mammograms, which are essential for accurate and efficient cancer detection.- By putting women in control of their own prior images and records, Mammosphere is overcoming some of the biggest hurdles in breast health management — helping Geisinger to streamline
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Livongo, Pager, Wildflower Health, Others Name BCBS Data Innovation Challenge Finalists
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) and Blue Health Intelligence® (BHI) has announced the finalists of the BlueCross BlueShield Data Innovation Challenge developing solutions that increase access to care, enhance patient engagement, and improve care delivery and outcomes. The selected finalists will receive access to a limited HIPAA-compliant Blue Health Intelligence (BHI) dataset so they can test their hypotheses.5 BCBS Data Innovation Challenge FinalistsThe five finalists were
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Mayo Clinic Backs Imago Systems to “Re-Visualize” The Mammogram for Breast Cancer Detection
Mayo Clinic has signed a know-how license agreement with Imago Systems, a medical imaging company with an advanced machine learning software that is designed to dramatically improve a clinician’s ability to detect cancer and other abnormalities earlier and more accurately. Imago Pilot DetailsAs part of the know-how license agreement, a breast imaging research specialist at Mayo Clinic will spearhead Imago's pilot and pivotal studies to clinically validate Imago's visual intelligence software as
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Adventist Integrates CancerIQ Platform with Cerner EHR Systemwide to Get AHEAD of Cancer
Adventist Health is getting AHEAD of hereditary cancer (which tends to be earlier onset, more aggressive, and accounts for 10 percent of all new diagnoses). The Adventist Health Early All-Around Detection – or AHEAD Program – at Adventist Health is a population hereditary cancer risk assessment initiative.To ensure patients in both urban and rural settings have access to the preventive services needed to reduce risk, Adventist Health is partnering with CancerIQ to identify candidates for genetic
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RefleXion Medical Receives $60M Loan for Biology Guiding Radiotherapy Machine
RefleXion Medical, Inc., a biotargeting oncology company developing the first and only biology-guided radiotherapy (BgRT) machine* for targeted cancer treatment has received a $60M senior secured term loan from Oxford Finance LLC. The company plans to use the loan to support the completion of the FDA clearance process for its biology-guided BgRT system and its subsequent commercial launch.
Building from Positron
Emission Tomography
Positron emission tomography (PET) is an established
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Guardant Health to Acquire Cancer Diagnostic Company Bellwether Bio
Precision oncology company Guardant Health, Inc., announced that it
has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire
Seattle-based Bellwether Bio, an
oncology startup developing next generation cancer diagnostics using cell-free
DNA. The acquisition is expected to close in April 2019. Financial terms of the
acquisition were not disclosed.
Bellwether Bio Background
Spun out of the University of Washington in 2016, Bellwether
Bio (formerly known as Haverhill Genetics) is developing
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