What You Should Know: RADLogics has signed an agreement with Nuance to officially bring its novel COVID-19 solutions for CT and X-ray to the U.S. market. The new agreement that will expand access to RADLogics’ medical imaging applications designed to assist in the detection and quantification of findings associated of COVID-19 patients in the U.S. through Nuance’s AI Marketplace for Diagnostic Imaging – a cloud-based platform that has broad reach to U.S. radiologists across more than
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Philips Unveils Innovative Ultrasound Solution for Pediatric Assessment
What You Should Know: Philips unveils first of its kind ultrasound solution for pediatric assessment to provide a gentler approach to imaging children. It combines dedicated transducers, enhanced processing, and software tools that are optimized for the pediatric diagnostic workflow to help improve the experience of both young patients and staff. Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, announced the ultimate ultrasound
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The Impending Artificial Intelligence Revolution in Healthcare
For at least a decade, healthcare luminaries have been predicting the coming AI revolution. In other fields, AI has evolved beyond the hype and has begun to showcase real and transformative applications: autonomous vehicles, fraud detection, personalized shopping, virtual assistants, and so on. The list is long and impressive. But in healthcare, despite the expectations and the tremendous potential in improving the delivery of care, the AI revolution is just getting started. There have been
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HeartVista Raises $8.65M to Expand One Click, AI-Guided MRI Platform
What You Should Know: HeartVista, a pioneer in AI-assisted MRI solutions raises $8.65M in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, Jeff Rothschild, Leslie Ventures, Open Field Capital, and additional investors. The startup plans to use the funding to fuel new musculoskeletal and neural products, expand internationally, and deepen strategic alliances with the world’s leading cardiology centers. HeartVista, a pioneer in AI-assisted MRI solutions, today announced the closing of a
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Philips Ramps Up Production of Critical Health Tech Products in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
What You Should Know: - The most needed products are patient vital signs monitors and portable ventilators and medical consumables for non-invasive and invasive ventilation to treat a broad range of respiratory conditions. - Philips’ efforts to increase the production include hiring additional manufacturing employees and shifting current employees to support increased demand immediately Royal Philips announced that it is increasing the production of
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Study: AI-Powered Solution Achieves High Accuracy for Detecting COVID-19 on CT
What You Should Know: - New RADLogics research that validates the performance of an AI-powered CT image analysis solution that is designed to automatically and accurately detect COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and quantify the disease burden in affected patients. - The study found that the CT image analysis algorithm – developed from multiple international datasets – was able to differentiate 157 patients with and without COVID-19 with a 0.996 AUC (plus, 98.2 percent sensitivity and 92.2 percent
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Life Image Launches Network Build to Help Providers Build Large-Scale Patient Data Networks
- Life Image launches Network Build Enterprise Solution to help healthcare organizations establish their own network connections to coordinate care and innovate. - Network Build allows healthcare organizations to create customized medical networks that can handle intensive data (e.g. diagnostic images, pathology, genomics, etc.) critical for advancing medical device development, clinical trials and more.Life Image, the world’s largest medical evidence network for clinical and imaging data,
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3 AI Trends for 2020: Moving Beyond Dazzle to High-Impact Collaboration
From the first artificial skin to driverless cars that navigate busy streets with ease, 2019 brought a dazzling array of artificial intelligence (AI) discovery. In 2020, the progress made toward AI-fueled collaboration will be as critical as AI innovation—especially in healthcare. We’ve reached a point where AI has proven its utility. In radiology, for example, AI is well-oriented to interpret diagnostic imaging studies, with FDA approval given to AI algorithms that diagnose a collapsed lung or
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Partners HealthCare Launches $100M, 5-Year Digital Health Initiative to Reshape the Patient Experience
- Partners HealthCare launches $100M, five-year digital health initiative focused on patient experience, clinical transformation, scaling research and development, and streamline hospital operations. - The digital health initiative will incubate innovative programs under development with the goal of expanding programs that show provider adoption and patient impact.Partners HealthCare today announced it has launched a five-year digital health initiative to improve the patient experience, boost
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Regional Medical Center, Philips Forms 5-Year, $16M Diagnostic Imaging Partnership
- Philips and Regional Medical Center announce a 5-year, $16M long-term strategic partnership to deliver diagnostic imaging solutions to support patient care for residents of rural South Carolina. - The partnership gives community health system access to the same innovative Philips diagnostic imaging solutions of larger networks, bringing quality care closer to home and delivering on the Quadruple Aim.Regional Medical Center (RMC), the only acute care provider serving Orangeburg, Calhoun,
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