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
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
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
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
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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Cerner Releases COVID-19 Reopening & Social Distancing Projections Dashboard
Today, Cerner announced the release of the publicly available Reopening and Social Distancing Projections dashboard tool that helps organizations plan for reopening of elective care services and potential re-surges. Organizations can use the tool to view the trend of COVID-19 cases within their community, state, and country in the last 14 days and evaluate the potential consequences of reducing social distancing. Understanding the Cerner Reopening Risk Index Cerner has compiled a
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FDA Grants Eko Emergency Use Authorization for Low Ejection Fraction AI
What You Should Know: - The FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization to Eko for an ECG-based algorithm that screens for low ejection fraction, as part of an assessment of cardiac complications and co-morbidities associated with COVID-19. - This ECG-based deep learning algorithm, developed on a large clinical dataset in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, can help efficiently identify signs of possible heart failure in patients. Eko, a digital health
company building
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Change Healthcare Launches COVID-19 Research Database Using De-Identified Data to Track Disease Progression
What You Should Know: - Change Healthcare announced a new online COVID-19 research database to track disease progression, treatment efficacy, for qualified public and private healthcare organizations using de-identified data to understand disease progression and improve intervention. - Actionable insight “beyond the diagnosis” enables health researchers to better understand COVID-19 progression, intervention effectiveness, and impacts on the healthcare system. Today
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Machine Learning Will Transform Medicine, but Only if We Use it Right
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, the first sign that artificial intelligence could become equal to or even
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Intel, UPenn Form AI Initiative to Identify Brain Tumors via Secure Data
What You Should Know: - To coincide with brain tumor awareness month in May, today Intel and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) announced an NIH-funded program that uses AI to identify brain tumors while protecting patient data. - Funded by the National Institutes of Health, UPenn and these health care institutions will use Intel’s federated learning technology to produce a new AI model that is trained on the largest brain tumor dataset to
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