Dean Smith, MD, Chief Medical Officer for GlobalMed
The American Diabetes Association reveals that 9.4% of the American population has diabetes, and with numbers that high nearly all Americans have a friend or family member with the disease. However, many Americans are not aware that telehealth can enable diabetic patients to manage their condition—treatment that would have otherwise been difficult to come by for rural patients with limited access to care.
With such a high prevalence among
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COVID-19 Vulnerability Index Identifies Urban Populations at High Risk
What You Should Know:
- RS21 has developed the Urban Health Vulnerability Index (UHVI) to help local governments and health planners identify urban populations at high risk for COVID-19, including older adults and people with serious medical conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes, and lung disease.
- The UHVI tool uncovers which parts of our communities could be most affected by a COVID-19 outbreak and allows local governments to anticipate where resources may be needed the
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FDA Clears Eko’s AFib, Heart Murmur Detection Algorithms for AI-Powered Stethoscope
- StartX company, Eko, announced today that the FDA has cleared Eko’s AFib and heart murmur detection algorithms, making it the first AI-powered stethoscope to screen for serious heart conditions. - Eko’s algorithms alert clinicians to the presence of heart murmurs and atrial fibrillation (AFib) during the physical exam, converting the classic stethoscope into a powerful early detection tool. Eko, a digital health company applying artificial intelligence (AI) in the fight against heart disease,
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FDA Breakthrough Status Granted for Heart Failure Algorithm by Eko
- Eko announced the FDA has granted “breakthrough status” for an algorithm that could provide an easily accessible screening test for heart failure during routine physical exams.- This designation is awarded to novel innovations that demonstrate the potential to address unmet medical needs for life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases. - Heart failure is often left untreated until it’s too late due to costs, inaccessibility to echocardiogram testing, or misdiagnosis. With nearly six
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Can Digital Health Bridge The Low-Income Gap?
Rey Villar, Founding Partner at HealthChampion
We’ve known for a few years that income correlates with health in a major way. From the length of life to stroke risk to self-reported health status, the more access, opportunity, and means of upward mobility a person has, the better their projected health outcomes.
Waves of organizations are stepping up to help put things on a better course. Accountable and managed care organizations like Upward Health are working with payers, providers, and
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Cerner Names AWS as Its Preferred Cloud and Machine Learning Provider
- Today at AWS re:Invent, Cerner has selected Amazon AWS as its preferred cloud and machine learning provider.- Cerner will use migrate its core apps to AWS’s broad portfolio of services, including ML, analytics, and Internet of things (IoT), to help create the next chapter of healthcare’s digital age.- Cerner will offer providers and healthcare organizations the ability to access and leverage clinical data in new ways to drive faster innovation, improve quality of care, and provide patients
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Eko Unveils Redesigned Smart Stethoscope and Stethoscope Attachment
- Eko unveils the second generation of CORE products, which includes a smart stethoscope and a stethoscope attachment designed to make any existing stethoscope smarter.- The technological advancements of the CORE include active noise cancellation, sleeker design, and powerful software to allow medical professionals to more effectively screen for heart disease.- The CORE Digital Attachment ($199) and the fully assembled CORE Digital Stethoscope ($249) are available for pre-order now to healthcare
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Heart Failure is Detectable at Point of Care Using ECG-Enabled Stethoscope, Mayo Clinic and Eko Finds
- Eko and Mayo Clinic announced they have proven that heart failure is detectable during routine physical exams, further validating the Eko DUO digital stethoscopes as a heart failure screening tool. - Today’s news marks the first time that a point of care device with a single lead ECG combined with an AI algorithm identified low ejection fraction in patients.- The results of these findings, which are comparable to research published earlier this year in NatureMedicine, were presented over the
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Artificial Intelligence’s Need for Health Data – Finding An Ethical Balance
Ross Upton, CEO and Academic Co-Founder of Ultromics
With doctors’ time in short supply, one area in which AI-driven tools could help transform healthcare is by increasing diagnostic accuracy. AI-driven diagnostic tools, especially in areas like cardiology, have the potential to save the healthcare system money and most importantly save lives. They are developed using incomprehensibly large datasets and can, therefore, discover patterns that are invisible to the human eye.
For example,
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GE Healthcare Launches Enterprise Central Data Warehouse for Clinicians
Key highlights- GE Healthcare is introducing Edison Datalogue, a new enterprise data management solution designed to connect disparate data sources and types into a single, secure and scalable data pool for clinicians to collect, share and store patient data across the care delivery network. - Edison Datalogue is being deployed by hospital systems including the National Consortium of Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI) and it is the only tool that combines a neutral archive (VNA), analytics and
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