The COVID-19 pandemic has proven that telemedicine is essential for keeping the healthcare system running during a crisis. How can virtual critical care keep improving to help providers manage future emergency events? In early 2020, as the nation’s healthcare system almost buckled under the weight of the COVID-19 pandemic, providers searching for a way to stay connected to their patients turned to telemedicine. Primary care providers and specialists embraced virtual care, thanks to a
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Vivalink Launches Multi-Vital Blood Pressure Patch for Remote Patient Monitoring
What You Should Know: - Vivalink, a leading provider of digital healthcare solutions launches a multi-vital blood pressure patch for remote patient monitoring is now available for research and development. - The advanced multimodal continuous signal processing patch captures ECG trace, heart rate, respiratory rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure on a single device. Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitor Cuffless blood pressure is still in its infancy, but new research is exploring
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3 Keys to Eliminating Data Breakdowns in Life Sciences
Across life sciences, experts boldly predict that data is the new currency—and that mobilizing data from clinical trials, wearable devices and even social media will ignite innovation in 2022. But leveraging data for innovation depends not just on data analytics, but also access to the right data and timely analysis. As the amount of data that life sciences experts have at their fingertips explodes, with leaders tapping into real-world evidence from smartphone apps, wearable devices and
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DiA Imaging Analysis Partners with Intel to Improve Ultrasound Analysis by 40%
What You Should Know: - DiA Imaging Analysis Ltd, a global provider of AI-powered ultrasound analysis software, has teamed up with Intel to streamline artificial intelligence (AI) solutions used by echocardiography (Echo) labs. - DiA’s AI-based software, LVivo Seamless™, automatically analyzes cardiac ultrasound images using the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit, to optimize processing time by over 40% percent while maintaining accuracy. Accelerating Processing Times for AI-Based
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3 Steps to Approach & Tackle Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) is predicted to save the US healthcare economy $150 billion by 2026. Replacing legacy systems and changing standard operating procedures, hospitals are moving to capitalize on technology and the ways it can change a historically hesitant to change sector. The big question is how fast teams are going to implement changes. Healthcare leadership recently reported that their organizations are 60% through their digitalization journey. IT leaders must be leading
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How Automation Can Help with Healthcare’s “Messy” Data Problem
Efficient data processing and data sharing are essential functions across healthcare—from patient care, clinical research, and health services planning to billing and government reporting for funding and research. But most of the data that the industry is processing is human-generated, meaning it’s messy and riddled with errors, and often manually inputted from Excel spreadsheets into various disparate platforms and technology systems. In some cases, our healthcare system is running on
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Seven Bridges, USP, Google Cloud to Build A Brazilian Reference Genome
What You Should Know: - Seven Bridges, a bioinformatics ecosystem provider, announced it is collaborating with the University of São Paulo (USP) and Google Cloud, as well as the Associação Genomas Brasil (Brazil Genome Association), to assist the DNA do Brasil (DNABr) project in building a reference genome that represents the genetic diversity of the Brazilian population. - The joint effort will advance unbiased precision medicine for underrepresented populations in Brazil through the
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Free Market Health Secures $13.5M for Advance Specialty Pharmacy Ecosystem
What You Should Know: Free Market Health, a Pittsburgh-based healthcare technology company transforming the specialty pharmacy ecosystem with a care-driven marketplace platform, today announced its $13.5M in Series A financing led by Alta Partners and with participation from existing investors Highmark Ventures and 653 Investment Partners. - The capital will enable the company’s team of specialty pharmacy industry experts to scale beyond the hundreds of millions of dollars in specialty
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How To Revolutionize Your Nonprofit Health Center’s Tech Stack To Support Your Community
Whether a Federally Qualified Health Center or a nonprofit health clinic that’s self-sustaining, you work tirelessly to provide primary care services in your communities. As the tech leaders in your healthcare organization, you’re positioned to evaluate your center’s technologies and ensure they are contributing to your mission. When it comes to building and evaluating your tech stack, think about choosing software that builds on the impressive outcomes your organization touts and that
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Vital Start Health Launches Virtual Reality-Enabled Telemedicine Platform for Maternal Mental Health
What You Should Know: - Vital Start Health, a University of Pennsylvania startup and a member of Microsoft for Startups, has launched COURAGE as the next-generation, virtual reality, multi-lingual coaching and psychotherapy telehealth platform for maternal well-being support across the pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and postpartum stages. - The platform empowers patients with experiential practice and immersive psychoeducation, with the goal of driving better diagnoses, and
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