Breath measuring algorithms, smart inhalers, and wearable analytics are at the forefront of respiratory care technology. Lung cancers, including mesothelioma and asthma, account for 70% of the country’s breathing issues. Technological advancements are making it easier for specialists to diagnose and patients to administer self-care.
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages forward, the advancement of pulmonary technology has gotten a boost. There is no way for the medical field to prepare for the
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Cleveland Clinic Names Top 10 Medical Innovations For 2021
Cleveland Clinic’s top clinicians and researchers present the top 10 medical innovations transforming medical advancements and new awards to recognize healthcare innovation.
The list of breakthrough technologies was selected by a committee of Cleveland Clinic subject matter experts, led by Will Morris, M.D., executive medical director for Cleveland Clinic Innovations, and Akhil Saklecha, M.D., managing director of Cleveland Clinic Ventures.
Here is a look at the top 10 medical
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AWS, PHDA Collaborate to Develop Breast Cancer Screening and Depression Machine Learning Models
What You Should Know:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) announce a collaboration to produce more accurate machine learning models for breast cancer screening and depression.
- In work funded through the PHDA-AWS collaboration, a research team led by Shandong Wu, an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Radiology, is using deep-learning systems to analyze mammograms in order to predict the short‐term risk of developing
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NVIDIA Develops AI Model to Accurately Predict Oxygen Needs for COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- NVIDIA and Massachusetts General Brigham Hospital
researchers develop an AI model that determines whether a person showing up in
the emergency room with COVID-19 symptoms will need supplemental oxygen hours
or even days after an initial exam.
- The ultimate goal of this model is to predict the
likelihood that a person showing up in the emergency room will need
supplemental oxygen, which can aid physicians in determining the appropriate
level of care for patients,
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New Jersey Urology Launches First-Ever Urologic-Centric Epic EHR
What You Should Know:
- New Jersey Urology (NJU) becomes the first urology-only group to launch a urologic-centric Epic electronic health record (EHR).
- NJU is the largest urology practice providing complete
urologic care and comprehensive individualized treatment at more than 60
convenient locations, including six state-of-the-art Cancer Treatment Centers.
New Jersey Urology ("NJU"), the leading urology service provider in New Jersey, and Urology Management Associates
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NIH Taps PhysIQ to Develop AI-Based COVID-19 Digital Biomarker
What You Should Know:
- physIQ has been selected by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to develop an innovative AI-based COVID-19 digital biomarker solution to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Early detection of COVID-19 decompensation in patients
is complicated by infrequent and non-specific clinical data. The first-in-kind
tool will collect and analyzes continuous physiologic data could provide early
clinical indicators of COVID-19 decompensation.
The National Cancer
Institute
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Philips Launches Advanced 3D Imaging Navigation Platform for Faster Lung Cancer Diagnosis
What You Should Know:
- Philips paves the way for faster lung cancer diagnosis and treatment with advanced 3D imaging and navigation platform with the launch of Azurion Lung Edition.
- By speeding diagnosis and treatment, Azurion Lung Edition
is helping to transform lung cancer care, contributing to dramatically improved
outcomes and reduced costs.
Royal Philips, today
announced the launch of Azurion
Lung Edition, an advanced 3D imaging and navigation platform to accelerate
the
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Corindus Vascular Robotics CEO Departure, UPMC Enterprises’ New President, Nordic Consulting’s New CIO, Other Health IT Hires
Mark Toland, CEO of Corindus Vascular Robotics (acquired by Siemens for $1.1B last year), has announced his departure and will be joining BioStar Capital, a health-tech venture capital group focused on cardiovascular and orthopedic medical devices. As a partner and entrepreneur in residence, Mark will help to identify and develop innovative companies leveraging AI, deep learning, robotics, and other transformative technologies that address a wide range of unmet needs. The BioStar team has
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Amazon Alexa, Sharecare Integrate to Answer More than 80k Health & Wellness Questions
What You Should Know:
- Sharecare integrates with Amazon Alexa’s voice service
to answer more than 80,000 health and wellness questions.
- And now, when Alexa responds to customers’ questions
about health topics, Sharecare is among the roster of trusted health
information sources to which the voice service attributes answers.
Sharecare, the digital health
company that helps people manage all their health in one place through its
comprehensive and data-driven virtual
heath
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Raising the Bar for COVID-19 Data Integrity and Disease Surveillance
Just a few weeks ago, the mood among technologists in the Coronavirus pandemic remained cautiously optimistic about reopening society with the help of testing data, contact tracing apps, and other IT-enabled resources. But the recent spike in illness – 1.9 million new US cases in July, more than double any other month – is a sobering reboot on a crisis we now understand needs far more IT and data coordination than previously recognized.
The emerging consensus among epidemiologists is that
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