What You Should Know:
- 3M and Eko team up to launch 3M Littmann® CORE Digital
Stethoscope to deliver a game-changing tool for clinicians as they assess,
diagnose, and monitor their patients.
- The new 3M Littmann CORE Digital Stethoscope offers
clinicians access to both analog and digital auscultation options and connects
to Eko’s software and AI algorithms* to help clinicians better interpret sounds
and detect heart murmurs.
3M™ Littmann® Stethoscopes and Eko, today announced the
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Fujifilm & Volpara Partner to Help Clinicians Determine Patient Breast Density
What You Should Know:
- FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc. and Volpara
Solutions announced the extension of their partnership to provide mammography
facilities and clinicians with breast imaging solutions designed to improve
image quality, streamline workflow and accurately assess a patient's breast
density.
- Building on a successful 6-year partnership, Fujifilm's
customers using ASPIRE Cristalle with Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) now
have access to the latest innovations from
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Corrona Acquires Virtual Patient Community HealthUnlocked
What You Should Know:
- Nationwide disease registry Corrona has acquired
virtual patient community HealthUnlocked, creating a first-in-class patient
experience ecosystem.
- The acquisition will enable Corrona to expand its broad
set of capabilities--ranging from highly granular and longitudinal structured
data across eight registries.
Corrona, LLC
("Corrona"), a nationwide disease registry and is now the largest
registry in the world collecting data on Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Tyto Care Launches AI-Powered Diagnostic Support Solution
What You Should Know:
- Today, Tyto Care announced the company’s evolution from
telehealth to tele-diagnosis with its AI-powered diagnostic support solution,
providing clinicians with advanced insights for informed remote diagnoses.
- The solution will improve the quality of remote triage
for common primary and chronic health issues – starting with wheezing and
stridor – grounded in Tyto Care’s industry-leading repository of remote exam
videos, sounds and images.
Tyto Care,
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Virta Adds Prediabetes and Obesity Reversal to Services
What You Should Know:
- Virta is expanding its suite of treatment options to
include prediabetes reversal, obesity reversal, and type 2 diabetes management.
- By making this crucial expansion, Virta can scale its
treatment to support the tens of millions of additional patients with
prediabetes and obesity, as provide an on-ramp to reversal for those with T2D
that aren’t yet ready to reverse.
Virta Health, the
leader in type 2 diabetes reversal, today introduced the addition
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NIH Taps PhysIQ to Develop AI-Based COVID-19 Digital Biomarker
What You Should Know:
- physIQ has been selected by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to develop an innovative AI-based COVID-19 digital biomarker solution to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Early detection of COVID-19 decompensation in patients
is complicated by infrequent and non-specific clinical data. The first-in-kind
tool will collect and analyzes continuous physiologic data could provide early
clinical indicators of COVID-19 decompensation.
The National Cancer
Institute
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Is Glucometrics The Missing Data in the Fight Against COVID-19?
Jordan Messler, MD, SFHM, FACP, Executive Director, Clinical Practice, Glytec
Glucometrics – the system-wide analysis of inpatient glucose data – should be of fundamental interest for hospital administrators striving to improve the outcomes of their patients.
Why is this data so important? Proper glycemic control has been linked to improved outcomes and decreased length of stay time and time again across a myriad of conditions – whether it’s someone recuperating from a heart attack,
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Clarius Unveils Ultra-High Frequency Handheld Ultrasound Scanner
What You Should Know:
- A pioneer in high definition ultrasound
miniaturization, Clarius is announcing the new high-frequency handheld
ultrasound scanner Clarius L20 HD featuring the highest definition wireless
imaging for superficial applications.
- Designed to provide extremely high image quality in the near field (skin line to 4cm), the Clarius L20 HD is ideal for a variety of clinical settings including MSK, rheumatology, podiatry, plastic surgery, microsurgery, pediatric
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PreferredOne Becomes First Health Plan to Cover Prescription Digital Therapeutics
What You Should Know:
- PreferredOne teams with Pear to provide its members
with covered access to two prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) for the
treatment of substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD)
- PDTs are a new therapeutic class that uses software to
directly treat disease. Like traditional medicines, PDTs are tested in
randomized controlled trials demonstrating safety and effectiveness, evaluated
and authorized by regulators like FDA, and used under the
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RADLogics Secures FDA Clearance for AI-Powered Chest X-Ray App for Triage & Prioritization
What You Should Know:
- RADLogics today announced that it has secured
510(k) clearance from the FDA for the company’s novel AI-Powered chest X-ray pneumothorax application,
which identifies and prioritizes chest X-ray scans that appear
to contain a pneumothorax, a collapsed lung, for urgent radiologist review.
- RADLogics’ FDA cleared CT and X-ray solutions
– including this application – are
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