What You Should Know:
- Children's Mercy Kansas City launches its Patient Progression Hub – a hospital operations center that uses artificial intelligence (AI), predictive analytics and real-time information to optimize care progression and coordination from the time a patient's admission is requested until discharged.
- The Patient Progression Hub is part of a strategic collaboration with GE Healthcare to improve access, streamline the flow of patients, enhance discharge planning,
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Is Education is the Catalyst to Increased Adoption of Handheld Ultrasound?
Handheld ultrasound has not yet reached mainstream adoption but the market is still forecast to reach over $500 million by 2026. Signify Research’s newly published Handheld Ultrasound Deep Dive Report 2022 shows that market revenues are estimated to have grown by approximately 30% in 2021, driven by strong growth in the US, the biggest market for handheld ultrasound. Despite the global challenges for handheld ultrasound vendors in 2022, such as rising inflation and supply chain disruptions, the
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Advantus Health Partners and GE HealthCare Sign 10-Year, $760M Agreement
What You Should Know:
- GE HealthCare and Advantus Health Partners announced it has expanded its partnership, an agreement of up to $760M over 10 years to provide GE HealthCare’s Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) services to Advantus Health Partners’ clients.
- Through this expanded relationship between Advantus Health Partners and GE HealthCare, healthcare providers will have access to a scalable, end-to-end solution for managing medical equipment performance and risk.
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The Quickening Pulse of the Ambulatory Diagnostic Cardiology Market
The Global Ambulatory Diagnostic Cardiology Market is evolving at a rapid pace, driven by technological developments, and shifting models of healthcare service delivery and funding. The overall market will grow from $2.5 billion in 2021, to $3.3 billion by 2026, with Long-Term ECG and, to a lesser extent, Mobile Cardiac Telemetry (MCT), being the principal engines of growth. Unsurprisingly, these two markets are garnering serious attention from large incumbent vendors in the more established
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GE HealthCare to Acquire Caption Health to Expand AI-Guided Ultrasounds
What You Should Know:
- GE HealthCare acquires Caption Health, Inc., a privately owned artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare leader that creates clinical applications to aid in early disease detection, using AI to assist in conducting ultrasound scans.
- The acquisition supports GE HealthCare’s $3B Ultrasound business by adding AI-enabled image guidance to ultrasound device portfolios. In addition, it aligns with strategy to deliver precision care and expands access to new ultrasound
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Develop, Partner, Acquire or Avoid – Where’s Investment for Digital Pathology Headed in 2023?
News of Fujifilm’s recent acquisition of software provider Inspirata’s digital pathology assets was met with much interest last month, following on from robust industry debate at Global Engage’s Digital Pathology and AI Congress: Europe a few weeks prior. Their discussions centered around the progress of the market and its inevitable future developments.
Whilst our in-depth analysis of the implications of Fujifilm’s specific deal will be released soon as a part of our Premium Insights
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Exec Hires: GE HealthCare Names Taha Kass-Hout First Chief Technology Officer
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GE HealthCare announced today that Taha Kass-Hout MD, MS has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead the company’s new science and technology organization.
- Reporting to GE HealthCare President & CEO Peter Arduini, Dr. Kass-Hout will help drive GE HealthCare’s D3 precision care strategy, a framework and digital products that emphasize the company’s smart devices, aligned to disease states and enabled by digital. D3 brings data and insights together to
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KLAS Enterprise Imaging 2022: Which Vendors Are Delivering?
What You Should Know:
- Many healthcare organizations are working to expand and mature their enterprise imaging (EI) strategies to bring together more facilities and service lines. At the same time, both vendors and healthcare organizations are experiencing staffing and budget constraints, leading to a host of financial and operational difficulties. In this environment, some vendors are surmounting challenges and providing the partnership and innovation customers need, while others are
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Quality vs. Quantity: The Case for Clinician-Centric Technology
Care providers continue to face mounting pressures – from increasing staffing shortages to balancing patient needs across in-person and virtual settings and managing pent-up patient demand. Rather than navigating through fragmented digital solutions that feed care providers disparate data, more and more clinicians now rely on connected technology to access the care context, i.e. the right patient data translated into reliable actionable insights at the right point in their workflow.
To truly
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Optellum Raises $14M for AI-Enabled Lung Cancer Diagnosis
What You Should Know:
- Optellum, an Oxford-based digital health company that provides a breakthrough AI platform to diagnose and treat early-stage lung cancer raises $14M in Series A funding led by Mercia, with additional investors Intuitive Ventures and Black Opal Ventures. Existing investors, including St John's College in the University of Oxford, IQ Capital, and the family office of Sir Martin & Lady Audrey Wood, also participated in this round.
- The investment will enable
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