Clinical Natural Language Understanding (cNLU), the technology by which computers extract meaning from clinical text, is quickly becoming a common feature in the healthcare IT landscape. In 2021, 30% of surveyed healthcare organizations were either using or exploring the technology. (Gradient Flow, 2021). Similar adoption is occurring in the UK as well. (Wu et. al, Nature, 2022). Today, cNLU is being applied to billing/coding, trial enrollment, registry creation, clinical decision support,
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ECRI Names Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023
What You Should Know: - The pediatric mental health crisis is named the number one patient safety concern, according to ECRI’s 2023 list of most pressing patient safety concerns. - The nation’s largest nonprofit patient safety organization notes that, while rates of depression and anxiety in children have increased since 2017, the COVID-19 pandemic has elevated the situation to crisis levels. Here are
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Aiberry Secures $8M for AI-Powered Mental Health Screenings
What You Should Know: - Aiberry (pronounced “I” + “berry”), an AI-powered mental health screening pioneer today announced that it has secured $8M in seed funding led by Confluence Capital Group, Inc. (CCG) with participation from the VC fund Ascension AI. This brings total funding to $10M - The company plans to use the latest round of funding to accelerate the adoption of the Aiberry platform, which uses an AI-powered therapeutic assistant to conduct a conversation to detect mental health
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Wave Life Secures $6M to Increase Mental Health Access For Gen Z
What You Should Know: - Wave Life, the science-backed mental health platform aimed at supporting Gen Z raises $6M in seed funding led by Santé Ventures. The seed round also included participation from Hannah Grey, Joyance Capital, Gaingels, and Telocity Ventures. - Created and led by clinical psychologist Dr. Sarah Adler, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, the Wave Life platform takes the best of science-backed traditional therapy and delivers it in a way
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Vida Health Expands its Cardiometabolic Capabilities
What You Should Know: - Vida Health is expanding its solution for chronic conditions by adding the ability to prescribe and deprescribe glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) agonists for both type 2 diabetes and obesity for appropriate patients. As part of Vida’s value-oriented treatments for cardiometabolic conditions, patients with obesity and diabetes will now be candidates for GLP-1 therapy within the Vida platform. - With the addition of GLP-1s and other obesity medications in higher acuity
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Why Researchers Should Explore New Apps of Machine Learning
As the amount of real-world data (RWD) in the pharmaceutical industry continues to grow, so does the usage of machine learning (ML) to analyze that data and gain insights. In fact, in a recent survey, 95% of life sciences executives said they expect to utilize ML in the next few years to generate real-world evidence (RWE) from this data. With such a large and growing volume of data available, researchers may be wondering how they can take advantage of all of it to enhance and expand the
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Curebase Launches Remote First DTx Research Platform
What You Should Know: - Curebase, a company committed to democratizing access to clinical trials, announced the release of its integrated software and services package for digital therapeutics (DTx) trials that accelerates enrollment and allows sponsors to launch their studies faster. - Available now, the new Curebase offering includes the first one-stop-shop decentralized clinical trial (DCT) platform bundled with site and trial execution services for the DTx market. Making
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Sharecare Launches VR Program to Bring Innovation to Exercise
What You Should Know: - Digital health company Sharecare launches Get Active, a new virtual reality program to help employers encourage exercise among their workforces in a fun, approachable, and accessible way. - In a pilot with its customer Lennar Corporation, one of the nation's leading homebuilders, Sharecare’s Get Active program for Meta Quest 2 yielded strong results for both healthy and high-risk Associates. Lennar Pilot Program In a pilot conducted in late 2022
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5 Executives Share Their Behavioral Health Predictions for 2023
As the start of the new year kicks off, we asked 5 healthcare executives to share their top predictions and trends for 2023. Dr. Yusuf Sherwani, Co-Founder and CEO of Quit Genius Employers will expand SUD treatment for employees: For example, Cigna more than doubled Evernorth’s Behavioral Health Network in recent months, and employers are now the ones driving demand for better behavioral health benefits for their employees. Employees with substance use disorder have become a financial
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NuraLogix Unveils Telehealth Platform Performing Continuous Health/Vital Signs During Video Calls
What You Should Know: - NuraLogix, global pioneers of contactless health monitoring whose technology can take over 30 medical-grade health vitals using any video-enabled device, unveils Anura™ Telehealth, a platform that performs continuous health and vital sign measurements while on a video call. - This is the latest addition to its AnuraTM platform that uses conventional video cameras to extract facial blood flow information to accurately calculate a host of medical vitals and health
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