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FCC, HHS, and USDA Team Up for Rural Telehealth Initiative Task Force

by Fred Pennic 09/01/2020 Leave a Comment

Rural Healthcare

What You Should Know: - Agencies sign a memorandum of understanding to establish an interagency Rural Telehealth Initiative Task Force comprised of representatives from each agency to keep rural Americans connected to vital health services. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on the Rural Telehealth
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4 Ways Businesses Will Adapt Their Healthcare Landscape

by Dr. Donald Brown, CEO and founder of LifeOmic 08/13/2020 Leave a Comment

Four ways businesses will adapt their healthcare landscape

The coronavirus pandemic has affected every aspect of our lives, from how we work to how we get our health care. The crisis has put the creativity of many small businesses to the test after being forced to move operations online once social distancing became the norm. As economies reopen, many aspects of our life that changed in response to the virus will likely return to the way they were. However,  we have the opportunity to emerge stronger from this crisis if the salient shortcomings from
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FDA, Syapse Expand Research to Generate Real-World Data Related to COVID-19 and Cancer

by Jasmine Pennic 08/11/2020 Leave a Comment

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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Eko Awarded $2.7M NIH Grant for Heart Murmur & Valvular Heart Disease Detection Algorithms

by Fred Pennic 07/22/2020 Leave a Comment

FDA Breakthrough Status Granted for Heart Failure Algorithm by Eko

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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How Parkland’s COVID-19 Vulnerability Index Identifies Dallas Hot Spots by Zip Code

by Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI) 07/07/2020 Leave a Comment

How Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation's COVID-19 Vulnerability Index Identifies Areas Most at Risk

PCCI’s Vulnerability Index: Uncovering and capturing factors in Dallas' COVID-19 risk Taking the fight to COVID-19 Management of pandemic spread (e.g., COVID-19) has tested the healthcare, political, and social fabric of communities around the world. For all, the term “flatten the curve” has come to represent how specific measures, such as social distancing, can slow the spread of the virus, which in turn can help to mitigate the tidal surge that would overwhelm the capacity of the
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Black Lives Matter: Health IT Industry, Where Are You?

by JohnMatthew Douglas, President And Founder at iPressForward, LLC 06/22/2020 Leave a Comment

Black Lives Matter: Health IT Industry, Where Are You?

All lives truly matter. However, the world does not exist in a vacuum void of institutional racism, subconscious, and implicit bias. As a result, every life within America is not valued the same, as is evident by the recent George Floyd murder. When all lives are not treated with the same opportunities and respect, whether in matters of criminal justice, employment, housing, education, health, and healthcare evidence shows the result is that only some lives actually matter. One cannot change the
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Tackling COVID-19 with Telemedicine on an FHIR-Enabled Data Activation Platform

by Abhinav Shashank, CEO at Innovaccer Inc. 05/22/2020 Leave a Comment

Beyond Interoperability: Data Activation and Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare

With the incidence of new COVID-19 cases expanding by the day, those in healthcare are accelerating their search for any available tools or medications that could stem the outbreak. Modern medical organizations have used technology to track and treat viruses in the outbreaks that have occurred over the last few decades. The current COVID-19 crisis makes innovative virtual care solutions an indispensable tool as the virus spreads across communities. The Rise of Virtual Care During the
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Eko Launches AI-Powered Telehealth Platform for Virtual Pulmonary and Cardiac Exam

by Jasmine Pennic 05/20/2020 Leave a Comment

Eko Launches AI-Powered Telehealth Platform for Virtual Pulmonary and Cardiac Exam

What You Should Know: Eko launches first AI-Powered telehealth platform for virtual pulmonary and cardiac exams, providing clinicians with in-person level exam capabilities during video visits. Already deployed by more than 200 health systems for telehealth, platform goes beyond standard video conferencing to facilitate stethoscope audio, ECG live-streaming, and FDA-cleared identification of atrial fibrillation (AFib) and heart murmurs. Eko today announced Eko Telehealth, an
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AHA Launches COVID-19 Data Challenge to Address Health Disparities Among African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans in Rural Areas

by Fred Pennic 05/15/2020 Leave a Comment

AHA Launches COVID-19 Data Challenge to Address Health Disparities Among African Americans, Hispanic, Native Americans in Rural Areas

What You Need to Know: - American Heart Association, Hitachi Vantara and BurstIQ launch COVID-19 Data Challenge to bring global COVID-19 datasets to researchers and clinicians to examine the relationship with other health conditions and health disparities. - Each participant of the challenge will be provided a free, HIPPA compliant and FedRAMP certified, secure Precision Medicine Platform (PMP) workspace to conduct analyses. The American Heart Association, the
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FDA Grants Eko Emergency Use Authorization for Low Ejection Fraction AI

by Fred Pennic 05/13/2020 Leave a Comment

FDA Grants Eko Emergency Use Authorization for Low Ejection Fraction AI

What You Should Know: - The FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization to Eko for an ECG-based algorithm that screens for low ejection fraction, as part of an assessment of cardiac complications and co-morbidities associated with COVID-19. - This ECG-based deep learning algorithm, developed on a large clinical dataset in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, can help efficiently identify signs of possible heart failure in patients. Eko, a digital health company building
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