What You Should Know: - Viz.ai, a provider of AI-powered disease detection and intelligent care coordination, today announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for an automated RV/LV ratio algorithm, a seamless new component of the Viz PE Solution (launched in November 2021). - The algorithm is designed to quickly and accurately measure the diameter of the heart's ventricles to provide the ratio of the maximum right ventricle (RV) diameter versus that
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AI More Accurate for Cardiac Diagnosis than Echocardiogram Assessments
What You Should Know: - In a first-of-its-kind randomized clinical trial led by researchers at the Smidt Heart Institute and the Division of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, artificial intelligence (AI) proved more successful in assessing and diagnosing cardiac function when compared to echocardiogram assessments made by sonographers. - The results, announced during a late-breaking presentation at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2022, have immediate
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Abridge Secures $12.5M to Power AI-Powered Medical Conversations
What You Should Know: - Abridge, the leader in medical conversation artificial intelligence (AI), today announced an oversubscribed $12.5M Series A-1 led by Wittington Ventures. - The round also had participation from all existing investors including Union Square Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Pillar Venture Capital, and UPMC Enterprises, and new investors including Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, and Whistler Capital. Automated Solutions to Combat Physician
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Caption Health, Heartbeat Health Partner to Provide Access to Cardiac Care
What You Should Know: - Caption Health and Heartbeat Health today announced a partnership that will enable providers to offer their patients earlier access to cardiovascular care than ever before possible. - Together, the partners are increasing access to early cardiac evaluations and care by providing these two innovations as a value-based bundle for health providers, payers, and value-based care organizations. Improving Access To Cardiac Care Limited access to cardiac diagnosis and
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Story Health Secures $22.6M for AI-Driven Virtual Specialty Care Platform Across Cardiology
What You Should Know: - Story Health, a health technology and services company that extends specialty care into patient’s homes raises $22.6M in Series A funding co-led by Northpond Ventures and B Capital Group. The round also included participation from new investor LRVHealth and existing investors Define Ventures and General Catalyst, bringing the company’s total funding to approximately $27M. - The Story Health platform empowers specialists through intelligent embedded clinical software
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Connecting the Dots – Building Data Bridges for a Better Healthcare Future
Healthcare data is increasing at an exponential rate. Approximately one-third of the world’s data volume is being generated by the healthcare industry. By 2025, the compound annual growth rate of healthcare data will reach 36% – that’s 6% faster than manufacturing, 10% faster than financial services, and 11% faster than media and entertainment. In addition to information captured during visits with healthcare professionals, personal health information is being created by an increasingly
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Eko Launches Next Generation DUO ECG + Digital Stethoscope for Frontline Clinicians
What You Should Know: - Eko, a cardiopulmonary digital health company launches its next-generation Eko DUO, an FDA-cleared cardiac assessment tool that functions as an electrocardiogram (ECG) and digital stethoscope to detect early signs of heart disease and facilitate timely care and personalized disease management. - DUO is a pocket-sized cardiac examination system for clinicians used to detect early signs of heart disease and facilitate timely care for patients in and out of the clinic.
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Could ‘Hospitals Without Walls’ Be the New Normal for Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring?
The statistics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic continue to be startling, despite the ever-growing mental and physical fatigue that we’ve all experienced living through this frightening, intimidating and unprecedented era. More than 125 million cases worldwide have resulted in a death toll closing in on three million, while in the United States alone, 30 million reported infections have resulted in a death toll that reached 550,000. (1) One thing that can be said for certain about
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Mayo Clinic Researchers to Validate Interoperability of Encrypted Algorithms and Training on Encrypted Data
What You Should Know: - Mayo Clinic researchers are collaborating with TripleBlind on next generation algorithm sharing and training on encrypted data. - TripleBlind’s solution functions as the innovative data
encryption conduit that keeps the data and intellectual property in the algorithm
secure. TripleBlind announced
today it is collaborating with Mayo Clinic researchers
who will use TripleBlind tools to validate interoperability
of encrypted
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Gates Foundation Awards Caption Health $4.95M Grant to Develop AI-Guided Lung Ultrasound System
What You Should Know: - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards Caption
Health a $4.5M grant to support the development of an AI-guided lung ultrasound
system. - The grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
will be leveraged to create new AI technology that allows medical professionals
without prior ultrasound experience to perform lung ultrasounds, expanding
access to quality medical care. Caption Health, a leading medical
artificial intelligence (AI) company, today
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