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Intel Labs & Penn Medicine Uses Privacy-Preserving AI to Identify Brain Tumors

by Syed Hamza Sohail 12/05/2022 Leave a Comment

Intel Labs & Penn Medicine Uses Privacy-Preserving AI to Identify Brain Tumors

What You Should Know: - Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) have completed a joint research study using federated learning – a distributed machine learning (ML) artificial intelligence (AI) approach – to help international healthcare and research institutions identify malignant brain tumors. - The largest medical federated learning study to date with an unprecedented global dataset examined from 71 institutions across six
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Building a Healthier Future with Real Wireless Power

by Hatem Zeine, Founder, President and CTO of Ossia 10/11/2022 Leave a Comment

Building a Healthier Future with Real Wireless Power

One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that healthcare facilities need to scale up operations quickly to respond to a public health emergency and that doing so is a significant challenge. In the early days of the pandemic, hard-hit cities like New York and others had to set up mobile hospital units or access additional capacity through military hospital ships.  In an emergency like the pandemic, staffing shortages remain a persistent problem, but expanding facility
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Brain Health: The Next Frontier in the Fight Against Dementia

by Joyce Gomes-Osman, PT, PhD and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD at Linus Health 10/07/2022 Leave a Comment

Brain Health The Next Frontier in the Fight Against Dementia

There are differing views on the value of cognitive screening of older adults in a primary care setting. Many providers point to the lack of disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer’s Dementia and related dementias (ADRD) as a reason to not universally screen older adults for cognitive deficits. If I don’t have anything to give my patients to get better, what’s the point in revealing they might be at risk of dementia, or that they have early disease? Is dementia a ‘normal’ or ‘expected’ part
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Eko Lands $2.7M NIH Grant to Train Pulmonary Hypertension AI

by Syed Hamza Sohail 09/20/2022 Leave a Comment

Eko Lands $2.2M NIH Grant to Train Pulmonary Hypertension AI

What You Should Know: - Eko, a digital health company applying machine learning in the fight against heart and lung disease, today announced that it was awarded a $2.7M Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Direct Phase II grant by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). - The grant will fund the development of a machine learning algorithm that detects and stratifies pulmonary hypertension (PH) using phonocardiogram (PCG) and
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The Critical Shift in ASC EHR Adoption: Overcoming Barriers

by Maura Cash RN, BSN, CASC, VP of Clinical Strategies for HST Pathways 04/19/2022 Leave a Comment

Maura Cash RN, BSN, CASC, VP of Clinical Strategies for HST Pathways

Extraordinary advances in technology have opened up previously unthinkable possibilities for the healthcare industry and improvements in patient care. Electronic health records (EHRs) are one of many health IT advancements in recent years, and they prove to have a significant impact on both providers and patients alike. While an EHR optimizes workflow efficiencies for providers, it also enables a more comprehensive view of a patient’s health. By pulling together data points and health
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Boston U Launches First-Ever Virtual Alzheimer’s Disease Population Health Study

by Fred Pennic 11/04/2019 Leave a Comment

Boston U Launches First-Ever Virtual Alzheimer's Disease Population Health Study

- Savonix and Boston University School of Public Health launches the first-ever population health Alzheimer’s Disease Discovery Study (ASSIST) to digitally collect brain health data from over 400k participants.- First-ever wholly digital population health study that captures data from multiple wearable technologies together with sensitive neuropsychology tests to examine how risks for dementia cluster to produce diseases like Alzheimer’s.- Study data will power first time knowledge of how
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Jumping to Lightspeed – Consolidating Patient Monitoring Devices

by Guy Meger, CTO and VP of Research & Development and Israel GM at EarlySense 10/17/2019 Leave a Comment

Jumping to Lightspeed - Consolidating Patient Monitoring Devices

In the early summer of 2005, Star Wars Episode III – Revenge of the Sith premiered worldwide. Diehard fans flocked to the theaters to see Anakin Skywalker embrace the dark side of the force, battle Obi Wan Kinobi and transform into the infamous Darth Vader. While audiences were enthralled by vivid battle scenes and cool effects, I was intrigued by a less popular scene, where Padmea, mother of Luke and Leia Skywalker, is examined and cared for in an out-of-this-universe hospital room. Padmea
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UCI Institute for Clinical & Translational Awarded NIH Grant to Establish EHR-Integrated Clinical Data Warehouse

by Jasmine Pennic 09/06/2019 Leave a Comment

UCI Institute for Clinical & Translational Awarded NIH Grant to Establish EHR-Integrated Clinical Data Warehouse

- National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards The Institute for Clinical & Translational Science at the University of California with a $25M grant over 5 years. - Grant will be used to establish an EHR-integrated enterprise clinical data warehouse (CDW) to support healthcare breakthroughs. The Institute for Clinical & Translational Science at the University of California, Irvine has been awarded $24 million over five years from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part
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Joe Kvedar, MD Elected Next President of American Telemedicine Association

by Fred Pennic 07/25/2019 Leave a Comment

JOE KVEDAR, MD, Joe Kvedar Elected Next President of American Telemedicine Association

The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) today announced the election of Joseph C. Kvedar, MD, as President-Elect. Beginning in April 2020, Dr. Kvedar will become President for a year-long term, succeeding John Glaser, Ph.D., Executive Senior Advisor, Cerner, who will become Immediate Past President. Dr. Kvedar Background Dr. Kvedar is Vice President of Connected Health at Partners HealthCare, and Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kvedar previously served as President of
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Y Combinator Startup Meru Health Raises $4.2M to Advance Digital Clinic for Mental Health

by Jasmine Pennic 04/25/2019 Leave a Comment

Y Combinator Startup Meru Health Raises $4.2M to Advance Digital Clinic for Mental Health

Meru Health, a Y Combinator company currently participating in the Texas Medical Center TMCx Accelerator in Houston has raised $4.2 million in seed funding from Freestyle Capital, Bonit Capital, Y Combinator, Lifeline Ventures, and IT-Farm. The seed funding will be used to advance its mobile phone-based digital clinic for depression and anxiety and support additional clinical validation. Peer-reviewed data of this intervention found a significant reduction in depression symptoms as well as close
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