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Theator Nabs $15.5M to Scale AI-Driven Surgical Intelligence Platform

by Fred Pennic 02/09/2021 Leave a Comment

Theator Nabs $15.5M to Scale AI-Driven Surgical Intelligence Platform

What You Should Know: - Theator raises $15.5M in Series A funding to support the company’s mission of using AI and computer vision to eradicate disparity and variability in surgical care. - The startup plans to use this round to scale its commercial operations and partnerships with U.S. providers, grow its R&D team and cement its status as a world-leading provider of AI-powered Surgical Intelligence solutions. Theator, a Palto Alto,
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Change Healthcare Unveils Social Determinants of Health Analytics Solution

by Fred Pennic 11/16/2020 Leave a Comment

Change Healthcare Acquires Credentialing Tech Docufill to Improve Administrative Efficiency

What You Should Know: - Change Healthcare launches national data resource on social determinants of health (SDoH) for doctors, insurers and life sciences organizations to better understand the connection between where a person lives and how they live their life to the care a patient receives and their health outcome. - 80% of U.S. health outcomes are tied to a patient’s social and economic situation, ranging from food, housing, and transportation insecurity to ethnicity. Change
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NVIDIA Develops AI Model to Accurately Predict Oxygen Needs for COVID-19 Patients

by Fred Pennic 10/05/2020 Leave a Comment

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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Dept. of Defense and Philips Partner on AI Tech to Contain COVID-19

by Fred Pennic 09/22/2020 Leave a Comment

Dept. of Defense and Philips Partner on AI Tech to Contain COVID-19

What You Should Know: - Today, Philips, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense, announced plans to expand their research on an AI-based early warning system for infectious disease, opening new possibilities in the battle to contain COVID-19. - An application of their joint Rapid Analysis of Threat Exposure (RATE) project, the technology aims to provide early alerts of potential infection, ensuring troop readiness and protection against
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How Can Health IT Address Socially Determined Risk amid COVID-19?

by Dr. Trishan Panch, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer of Wellframe 09/04/2020 Leave a Comment

How Can Health IT Address Socially Determined Risk amid COVID-19?

Many have argued that the COVID-19 pandemic is a “black swan”: a catastrophic event that can only be understood with the benefit of hindsight. While there is some appeal to this observation, the originator of the black swan theory, Naseem Taleb, strongly refutes this assertion. He counters that COVID-19 was a “white swan”—a predictable event with predictable consequences.  New federal data shows that Latinos and African Americans living in the US are three times as likely to become
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Sonde Health Acquires NeuroLex Lab’s Voice-Based Survey Platform

by Fred Pennic 08/25/2020 Leave a Comment

Sonde Health Acquires NeuroLex’s Voice-Based Survey Platform

What You Should Know: - Sonde Health acquires NeuroLex Laboratories, Inc. to forms one of the world’s preeminent biobanks focused on vocal biomarkers. - NeuroLex’s core product, SurveyLex, makes it easy to create and distribute voice surveys in less than a minute as URL links through web browsers. Sonde Health, a Boston-based digital vocal biomarker technology platform announced it has acquired NeuroLex Laboratories, Inc., a leading voice-enabled survey and data acquisition platform.
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Eko Awarded $2.7M NIH Grant for Heart Murmur & Valvular Heart Disease Detection Algorithms

by Fred Pennic 07/22/2020 Leave a Comment

FDA Breakthrough Status Granted for Heart Failure Algorithm by Eko

What You Should Know: - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted next-generation cardiac AI company Eko an award totaling $2.7 million to support continued collaborative work with Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute - The grant will focus on validating algorithms and help more accurately screen for heart murmurs and valvular heart disease during routine office visits with Northwestern Medicine. - By incorporating data from tens of thousands of
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Sun Genomics Nabs $8.65M to Scale Personalized Probiotic Solutions

by Jasmine Pennic 07/02/2020 Leave a Comment

Sun Genomics Nabs $8.65M to Scale Personalized Probiotic Solutions

What You Should Know: - Sun Genomics raises $8.65M in Series A funding to scale direct to consumer personalized probiotic solutions based on whole-genome sequencing diagnostics. - Flagship product Floré, a microbiome test, and gut probiotics solution utilizes whole-genome sequencing to evaluate different digestive system data points and ensure that customers receive a completely personalized product that is based on their unique gut profiles. Sun Genomics, a San Diego, CA-based
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M&A Analysis: Mednax to Sell its Radiology and Teleradiology Business

by Arun Gill, Senior Analyst at Signify Research 06/17/2020 Leave a Comment

M&A Analysis: Mednax to Sell its Radiology and Teleradiology Business

Earlier this month saw Mednax announce significant plans to transform its business. Mednax intends to: - Sell its Mednax Radiology Solutions business, which includes its radiology groups and the teleradiology market leader Virtual Radiologic (vRad). - Reposition itself as a dedicated pediatrics and obstetrics business, including a return to its original company name, Pediatrix Medical Group. Mednax made its entrance into the radiology business following the $500m acquisition of vRad in
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Inovalon Launches FHIR-Based Solution for Health Plan Compliance

by Jasmine Pennic 05/22/2020 Leave a Comment

Big Data Firm Inovalon Files First Digital Health IPO of 2015

What You Should Know: - Inovalon announced the availability of its Cloud-Based “Consumer Health Gateway” Module, alleviating the need for health plans to build their own Patient Access API to comply with the new requirement of the 21st Century Cures Act. - The Consumer Health Gateway is a consumer portal allowing the FHIR®-based exchange of a patient’s claims and clinical data securely with authorized third-party applications. It consists of a robust patient consent and authentication
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