What You Should Know:
- Today, Medtronic announced that it will
acquire Companion Medical, the manufacturer of InPen, a smart insulin pen
system paired with an integrated diabetes management app.
- The addition of Companion’s InPen system builds
upon Medtronic's strategic acquisitions of Nutrino and Klue to further
improve overall automated decision-making capabilities and optimizes dosing
decisions using algorithms and AI for patients.
Medtronic,
today announced the
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FDA, Syapse Expand Research to Generate Real-World Data Related to COVID-19 and Cancer
What You Should Know:
The FDA and Syapse announce research collaboration expansion
to address urgent public health challenges including supporting FDA’s goal of
rapid understanding of COVID-19.
As part of the research, Syapse is partnering with FDA’s
Oncology Center of Excellence to investigate methods to derive RWD from
multiple sources including electronic health records, registries and molecular
data
Syapse, a real-world
evidence company accelerating the delivery of precision
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New Tech Solution Lets People Securely Share COVID-19 Testing Results
What You Should Know:
- TransUnion, in partnership with CLX Health, a joint venture from UST Global and SiriusIQ, announced the launch of HealthyAmerica, a technology solution that will give individuals the power to securely share their COVID-19 testing results while maintaining their individual privacy – helping businesses and schools across the country to minimize risk and reopen with greater confidence.
- Businesses and schools seeking to welcome back
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AstraZeneca, Eko Collaborate to Advance Innovation Around Heart Failure
What You Should Know:
- Eko today announced a global collaboration with
AstraZeneca to accelerate the development of digital health tools for the
earlier screening of cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure.
- Through the collaboration, AstraZeneca and Eko will explore accelerating the development of Eko algorithms, enhancing clinical trials with Eko technology, and potentially building new heart failure detection solutions.
Eko, a digital health company
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Super-Spreading of COVID-19 Co-Infections Reveals a Deadly Diagnostics Gap
Oliver Schacht, PhD, CEO of OpGen
Secondary bacterial or fungal co-infections in COVID-19 patients have received inadequate attention from the public. For most, co-infections pose little to no risk according to reports that an estimated 8% of patients are found to experience this during hospital admission – a relatively low number compared to the global impact of the virus. However, once a patient enters a hospital for care or becomes ventilated while in the ICU, the risk for
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Philips Launches Pre-Hospital Wireless Monitoring Solution for Emergency Medical Response
What You Should Know:
- Philips receives 510(k) clearance from the FDA for its pre-hospital
wireless monitoring solution (Tempus LS- Manual), now offering its remote
monitor and defibrillator solution (Tempus ALS) to EMS customers in the U.S.
- Solution delivers real-time bidirectional data transfer
for remote patient monitoring, giving EMS responders a new approach to
pre-hospital care.
Philips, today announced the launch of its
remote monitoring and defibrillator solution
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Ciox Health Acquires Biomedical NLP Company Medal
What You Should Know:
- Ciox Health has acquired Medal, Inc., a biomedical
Natural Language Processing (biomed-NLP) technology company.
- The acquisition will lead Ciox to better and more
quickly enable real-world data in support of research that advances patient
care.
Ciox
Health, a leading health technology company, today announced its acquisition
of San Francisco-based biomedical Natural Language Processing (biomed-NLP)
technology company, Medal, Inc., a
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Caption Health AI Awarded FDA Clearance for Point-of-Care Ejection Fraction Evaluation
What You Should Know:
- Caption Health AI is awarded FDA 510(k) clearance for
its innovative point-of-care ejection fraction evaluation.
- Latest AI ultrasound tool makes it even easier to
automatically assess ejection fraction, a key indicator of cardiac function, at
the bedside--including on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Caption Health, a Brisbane,
CA-based leader in medical AI technology, today announced it has received FDA
510(k) clearance for an updated version
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Call to Action: Restrictions Around Virtual Health Can’t Go Back to “Normal”
David Cohen, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Greenway Health
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government has passed several stimulus packages with the goal of helping employers keep their business in operation while office volume is down and, in some cases, practices are physically closed. The CARES Act, which included the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Provider Relief Fund, for example, has provided some relief to eligible healthcare providers, including
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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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