- Cleveland Clinic London will use the Vocera Platform to standardize care team communication across the hospital when it opens in 2021.- The Vocera Platform integrates with more than 150 clinical and operational systems, including EHRs, physiologic monitors, ventilators and more.- Cleveland Clinic London is planning a two-way integration with Epic, the hospital’s EHR system. Additional integrations with a real-time location system and nurse call solution also are planned. Cleveland Clinic
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Philips, Humana Partner on 2 Pilot Programs to Improve Care for At-Risk Medicare Advantage Members
- Philips and Human collaborate on new pilot programs designed to help support independent living for at-risk Medicare Advantage members by providing 24/7 access to care. - Humana is identifying a pilot group of members with severe CHF. Philips is providing members with kits that include an interactive tablet that syncs data from connected measurement devices via wireless technology. - Humana is identifying members who are at-risk and offering them Philips Lifeline medical alert service,
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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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Inspira Health, Philips Forms $50M, 5-Year Partnership to Standardize Patient Monitoring
- Philips and Inspira Health announce USD 50 million, long-term strategic partnership to transform patient care for residents of southern New Jersey, U.S.- The partnership agreement will make Philips solutions available to more than a dozen Inspira health facilities including training and services to maximize operational efficiency.Inspira Health (Inspira), a charitable nonprofit healthcare organization and a regional leader in physician training has formed a $50M, five-year strategic
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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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How Innovations in Regional Nerve Blocks Are Helping Anesthesiologists Combat the Opioid Epidemic
Dr. Armen Chalian M.D., Allied Anesthesiologist
Opioid abuse — as you know — has now become a national crisis, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimating a $78.5 billion annual burden on the American economy. What can be done?
Advancing better practices for pain management is a key strategy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) plan for addressing this epidemic. This is where healthcare providers come in. If we can start our patients along a track
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Kaiser To Name School of Medicine in Honor of Late Chairman and CEO Bernard J. Tyson
Artist rendering, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine (PRNewsfoto/Kaiser Permanente)
- The Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine will be named in honor of late Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO Bernard J. Tyson.
- Name change honors Tyson's support for creating a new, nimble and diverse generation of tech-enabled physicians poised to be advocates for their patients and communities.
The Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine
will be named in honor of late Kaiser
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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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FDA Clears AI-Powered EchoGo Core for Early Detection of Cardiovascular Disease
- Ultromics has just become one of the first companies to have 510(k) FDA clearance for an AI medical device. - EchoGo will now be available for clinicians in the UK and US to use to help them identify cardiovascular disease earlier. - EchoGo automates cardiac measurements and is the first AI application to measure cardiac strain, improving patient care and outcomes.Ultromics, the UK-based health technology firm at the forefront of applying artificial intelligence to echocardiography has
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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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