What You Should Know:
- Net Health acquires wound care platform Tissue Analytics to expand Net Health’s leadership position in the wound care market.
- Tissue Analytics, Inc. deploys its wound management software via industry-leading SMART on FHIR integrations with Epic, Cerner, Allscripts, and others.
- Net Health plans to integrate Tissue Analytics app will be integrated with their WoundExpert EHR solution to add key capabilities for use within hospital outpatient
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Machine Learning in Healthcare | ML News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Machine Learning Will Transform Medicine, but Only if We Use it Right
World chess champion Garry Kasparov made headlines all over the world in 1997 for something that he probably wasn’t very excited about. He lost a chess match. To a computer.
It was an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue and its victory in that New York City match marked the first time a reigning world chess champion had been defeated by a computer under tournament conditions. It was also a symbolically significant event, the first sign that artificial intelligence could become equal to or even
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Intel, UPenn Form AI Initiative to Identify Brain Tumors via Secure Data
What You Should Know:
- To coincide with brain tumor awareness month in May, today Intel and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) announced an NIH-funded program that uses AI to identify brain tumors while protecting patient data.
- Funded by the National Institutes of Health, UPenn and these health care institutions will use Intel’s federated learning technology to produce a new AI model that is trained on the largest brain tumor dataset to
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Leveraging Big Data for Real World Clinical Analytics
Recently, as the world has watched the coronavirus crisis unfold, the power of big data to track, illustrate, and inform has taken center stage. A compelling example is the near real-time map created by Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) that shows all the cases as the disease spreads across the globe.
With far-reaching implications for healthcare, big data enables deep analysis of data from a myriad of sources – electronic medical records (EMRs), claims,
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EarlySign, Israeli HMO Launch AI Algorithm to Detect High-Risk COVID-19 Cases
What You Should Know:
Medial EarlySign announced the first clinical
implementation of its AI-based solution to identify patients at highest risk of
COVID-19 complications, with leading Israeli HMO Maccabi Healthcare
Services.
The new algorithm uses a wide range of routine medical
information to objectively flag high-risk patients who should be fast-tracked
for COVID-19 testing, facilitating earlier treatment to reduce severe
cases, optimize treatment decisions and
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How AI-Driven Insight Could Fuel Medicare Advantage Success
Medicare Advantage plans need more than consumer-centric design, payer/provider alignment, and strong connections across the continuum of care to drive value. The high-value performance also depends on their ability to use data to make a meaningful difference in members’ health.
With 11,000 people aging into Medicare daily, proficiency in managing Medicare Advantage populations is critical for demonstrating value in a competitive market. Enrollment in these plans is growing significantly,
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One Drop Acquires Sano’s Continuous Glucose Sensing Platform
What You Should Know:
- One Drop has acquired all the assets and intellectual property of Sano Intelligence, Inc. which include Sano's continuous glucose sensing platform.
- One Drop will leverage the acquired assets, including silicon-sensing production infrastructure, to design, produce, and commercialize a painless, silicon-based continuous health sensing platform for use across multiple conditions.
One Drop, a New York
City-based provider of digital care solutions for people
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Tyto Care Lands $50M for Telehealth Platform for On-Demand, Remote Medical Examinations
What You Should Know:
- Tyto Care raises $50M in an oversubscribed round co-led by Insight Partners to expand its modular device and telehealth platform for on-demand, remote medical examinations.
- The growth round doubles the telehealth company’s total funding after serving over 100 health organizations, thousands of clinicians, and hundreds of thousands of patients in 2019.
Tyto Care, the healthcare industry’s first all-in-one modular device and telehealth platform for
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New AI-Based Fever Detection Cameras for Crowds Help Limit Coronavirus Spread
What You Should Know:
- Kogniz Health launches an AI-camera solution that can scan groups and crowds and detect who may have a coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms so they can be isolated.
- Starting at $10k for one single device, the solution uses specialized camera technologies and an artificial intelligence-based software platform, the solution scans crowds in real-time and identifies anyone with an elevated temperature.
- During the COVID-19 pandemic, it is critical
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Analysis: Applying AI in the Fight Against The Coronavirus
Drug discovery is a notoriously long, complex and expensive process requiring the concerted efforts of the world’s brightest minds. The complexity in understanding human physiology and molecular mechanisms is increasing with every new research paper published and for every new compound tested. As the world is facing a new challenge in trying to both adapt to and defend itself against the coronavirus, artificial intelligence is offering new hope that a cure might be developed faster than ever
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