What You Should Know:
- Today UltraSight, a digital health pioneer, announced a new partnership with GE Healthcare that will bring AI-assisted wireless, cardiac ultrasound to space. They will conduct a study aboard the upcoming Axiom ‘Rakia’ space mission and record images of an astronaut’s heart in microgravity, using UltraSight’s real-time AI guidance software and GE Healthcare’s handheld GE Vscan AirTM.
- The goal of this study is to prove how easy it is to acquire accurate
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HIMSS21 Day 1 Roundup: Google Cloud, Salesforce, Zoom, Philips, GE Healthcare, GoodRx
Google Cloud Unveils New Research examining COVID-19’s Acceleration of Innovation in Healthcare
Google Cloud revealed new research unveiling the impact of COVID-19 on reshaping technology’s role in healthcare. This research is the second phase of research that Google Cloud published in July, showcasing how critical data interoperability is in improving patient outcomes. The research reveals healthcare organizations accelerated technological upgrades over the course of the pandemic.
After
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GE Healthcare Unveils AI-Enabled, Cloud Imaging Solution
What You Should Know:
- GE Healthcare unveils its next-generation, cloud-based Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS) designed to address the acute shortage of radiologists and growing demand for imaging scans has put radiology departments under increased strain. Edison True PACS is a transformative system, offering AI-enabled decision support to help radiologists adapt to higher workloads and increased exam complexity, and improve diagnostic accuracy.
- Through a web-based
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Epic, Galen Healthcare, Chartis Group Named 2020 Overall Best in KLAS Awards
What You Should Know:
- Epic was named the top Overall Software Suite for the eleventh consecutive year in the Best in KLAS 2021 Software & Services report, released today, which reports on the top vendors for 2020. Epic was also named the top Overall Physician Practice Vendor. Galen Healthcare Solutions was named the top Overall IT Services Firm. The Chartis Group earned the award of top Overall Healthcare Management Consulting Firm, edging out last year’s winner,
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OHSU to Deploy Virtual ICU Across 8 Sites to Extend Care to Patients in Rural Communities
What You Should Know:
- With ICU beds near capacity across the United States,
GE Healthcare announced a strategic partnership with Oregon Health and Science
University (OHSU) that will allow OHSU to oversee and help provide care to ICU
patients across eight hospital sites via a “Virtual ICU” (VICU), using the GE
Healthcare Mural Virtual Care Solution.
- The VICU provides critical care specialists at OHSU
with digital tools to deploy hospital defined care protocols to remotely
identify
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Ensuring Telehealth Providers’ Virtual Care Dollars Make Sense
Telehealth and virtual care are not brand-new phenomena suddenly cobbled together as a rapid response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but the average US patient could be forgiven for thinking that it is. Indeed, virtual visits to care providers and remote patient monitoring have been available for quite some time, delivering two key benefits:
- Providing a platform to address cost-efficiencies and accessibility to quality healthcare for the populace at large
- Playing a
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GE Healthcare Unveils First X-Ray AI Algorithm to Assess ETT Placement for COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know:
- GE Healthcare announced a new artificial intelligence
(AI) algorithm to help clinicians assess Endotracheal Tube (ETT) placements, a
necessary and important step when ventilating critically ill COVID-19 patients.
- The AI solution is one of five included in GE Healthcare’s Critical Care Suite 2.0, an industry-first collection of AI algorithms embedded on a mobile x-ray device for automated measurements, case prioritization, and quality control.
GE Healthcare
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Will Nanox Disrupt The X-Ray Systems Market?
With its share price falling from more than $66 to less than $24, September was a tumultuous month for Nanox.
On August 25th, the medical imaging start-up closed its initial public offering, having raised $190m from the sale of 10,555,556 ordinary shares at a price of $18 each. Money poured in as investors were sold on Nanox’s cold cathode x-ray source and the subsequent reduction in costs that it would enable, as well as the vendor’s pay-per-scan pricing model that would let the company
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The Future of the ICU? How Clinical Decision Support Is Advancing Care
Without a doubt 2020 has been a devastating year for many; the impact of COVID-19 on both personal lives and businesses has had long-term consequences. At the end of September, the number of COVID-19 cases fell just short of 350 million, with just over 1 million deaths reported. The expectation of a second peak in many countries exposed to the deadly illness is being handled with care, with many governments attempting to minimize the impact of an extreme rise in cases.
COVID-19
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MTBC Acquires RCM Vendor Meridian Medical Management
What You Should Know:
- MTBC acquires Meridian Medical Management, a former GE
Healthcare IT company to enhance its cloud-based healthcare IT solutions and
services.
- Meridian Medical Management has been providing revenue cycle
management solutions to the ambulatory medical practice management marketplace
for over 20 years.
MTBC, Inc., a Somerset,
NJ-based provider of cloud-based
healthcare IT solutions and services announced it has acquired
Meridian Medical Management
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