Dr. Jacob Lazarovic M.D., IMCS Group
As you read this, over 200,000 American deaths have been attributed to the virus. The influx of cases continues, while state and local economies are experiencing hardship, children are shuttered in their homes learning remotely, grown children are moving back home and the “new normal” disrupts nearly all of life’s plans.
Yet, these issues don’t reveal all the traumas that Americans are experiencing 10 months into the pandemic. The pandemic's impact
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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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Why Hasn’t A More Holistic Approach to Patient Care Become The Norm?
When food production technology made it possible, wheat flour processors started to eliminate the tough exterior (bran) and nutrient-rich core (germ) of the kernel to get at the large, starchy part (the endosperm) only. The bread produced from this process is white and fluffy, and it makes great PB&Js and takes forever to grow mold, but it is almost totally lacking nutritional value.
Nutrition experts eventually pointed this out, of course, after which commercial bakers tried fortifying
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Anthem Expands Relationship with doc.ai to Power Digital Health Offerings
What You Should Know:
- Anthem extends the use of doc.ai's platform and portfolio of privacy-first technologies and artificial intelligence software services to drive the personalization of Anthem’s digital assets and create improved value for users.
- doc.ai’s product offerings are deployed on its cloud-agnostic and zero-trust infrastructure that lets clients like Anthem launch products faster and at lower costs.
Anthem, today announced it is extending its partnership with doc.ai,
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U.S. Airforce Awards $1.5M Contract to NeuroFlow to Increase Mental Healthcare Access
Senior Airman Mario Fajardo stands guard while on duty Jan. 25 at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. 355th Security Force squadron is responsible for the worldwide force protection and security of seven flying squadrons and 4,400 tactical and stored aircraft on Davis-Monthan AFB worth more than 32.3 billion dollars. Airman Fajardo is with the 355th Security Forces Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Melissa Copeland)
What You Should Know:
- The U.S. Air Force has awarded
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Magellan Health and Livongo to Co-Market Behavioral Health Services
What You Should Know:
- Magellan Health announced a strategic relationship with
Livongo, making Livongo for Behavioral Health the new digital entry point to a
wide range of solutions for Magellan Health customers and their members.
- As part of the strategic relationship, Magellan and
Livongo will co-market behavioral health services and collaborate on product
innovations.
Magellan Health,
Inc., today announced a strategic relationship with Livongo the leading Applied Health
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Catapult Health Launches VirtualCheckup to Deliver Clinical Preventative Care
What You Should Know:
- Catapult Health, today announced the release of VirtualCheckup to bring annual checkups to nearly any location – combining telehealth, clinic diagnostics, COVID-19, and depression screenings to address the health concerns of today – perfect for remote employees and partners, and covered by most commercial plans.
- Prior to each visit, participants will be mailed a
VirtualCheckup home kit that contains a blood pressure monitor, a
next-generation finger stick blood
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New Voice-Based App Enables Behavioral Health Measurement Anytime, Anywhere
What You Should Know:
- Ellipsis Health launches new voice-based Rising
Higher app, enabling behavioral health measurement anytime, anywhere.
- The
HIPAA-compliant platform facilitates longitudinal visibility into behavioral health symptoms
for enhanced clinical decision support.
Ellipsis Health,
pioneer of the first commercial-grade voice-based vital signs to
quantify and manage depression and anxiety symptoms at scale, has announced
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Lyra Health Reaches $1.1B Valuation After $110M Series D to Meet Demand for Teletherapy
What You Should Know:
- Mental health benefits provider Lyra Health raises $110M
in Series D funding, bringing its valuation to $1.1 billion.
- Lyra has grown significantly in 2020. So far this year,
the company has added more than 800,000 new members to the population eligible
to receive Lyra benefits, bringing its total member population to more than 1.5
million.
- Amid, the COVID-19 pandemic, Lyra is focused on
expanding its enhanced teletherapy offering — Lyra Blended Care —
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Sonde Health Acquires NeuroLex Lab’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
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