The widely anticipated expansion of digital healthcare over the next decade is very exciting for many healthcare executives, physicians, IT vendors, and consumers. Potentially transformational IT technologies are already being explored by many hospitals, including new devices and applications designed to streamline healthcare operations, lower costs and enhance the quality of care. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, blockchain, telemedicine, voice search, virtual reality, wearables,
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Google and care.ai Launches Autonomous Monitoring for Hospitals
- Google collaborates with a new company, care.ai to bring autonomous monitoring capabilities of self-driving cars to hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare facilities to prevent patient falls, bedsores, protocol violations, etc.- care.ai uses Google’s Coral TPU to turn every room in a facility to a “Self Aware Room,” its active learning neural networks and edge sensors can predict and prevent potentially fatal mishaps for patients in a clinical setting.care.ai, a healthcare AI innovator,
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Philips, Dept. of Defense Partner to Develop AI-Algorithm to Detect Infection 48 Hours Before Observable Symptoms
- Philips and the U.S. Department of Defense are teaming up to develop an AI-algorithm to identify infection more than 48 hours before observable symptoms.
- Using large data sets & machine learning across biomarkers, innovative tech can speed time to detection, intervention & treatment, while improving outcomes & reducing the spread of disease.
- Future research is currently being planned to leverage this information as an algorithm to be integrated into a wearable device,
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Philips Launches AI-Powered Patient Risk Prediction Algorithm for ICU
- Philips launches Sentry Score, a predictive algorithm for the intensive care unit (ICU) that shows a patient’s probability of receiving an intervention within 60 minutes.
- The proprietary predictive algorithm enhances Centralized Virtual Clinical Operations to provide decision support and intervention for ICU patients.
- Sentry Score provides clinicians in the tele-ICU with a more comprehensive view of the patient, allowing them to coordinate assessments and recommended actions with
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Microsoft, Nuance Partner to Develop Ambient Clinical Intelligence to Combat Clinician Burnout
- Nuance and Microsoft have joined forces to accelerate the delivery of ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) technologies that will power the exam room of the future where clinical documentation writes itself.
- Strategic partnership's focus is to reduce clinician burnout by enabling doctors to focus on patients, while AI focuses on administrative tasks.
Today, Microsoft and Nuance Communications announced a
strategic partnership to accelerate the
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Novant Health Taps Tyto Care to Offer Patients On-Demand, Remote Medical Exams
- Novant Health and Tyto Care announced their partnership to enable clinic-quality exams from the comfort of home.- The integration allows patients to connect to a Novant Health provider anytime, anywhere using Tyto Care’s on-demand, remote medical exam device.Novant Health, an integrated healthcare system headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, today announced its strategic partnership with Tyto Care, the healthcare industry’s first all-in-one modular device and telehealth platform for
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California Physician Practices to Use Apple Watches to Advance Physician-Patient Communication
- Healthcare services company for physicians Altais partners with Notable Health to use intelligent automation to enhance the patient experience.- Notable Health’s A.I.-driven platform uses Apple Watches and smartphone devices to advance physician-patient communications and streamline administrative tasks.- Notable’s AI-powered platform is a game-changer for clinicians previously spending hours on redundant administrative tasks. The platform—which seamlessly integrates with legacy EHR
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UCSF Launches Center for Intelligent Imaging to Accelerate AI Adoption in Radiology
- UC San Francisco launches Center for Intelligent Imaging named ci2 to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology to improve patient diagnoses and care.
- ci2 researchers will work with NVIDIA Corp. to build infrastructure and tools focused on enabling the translation of AI in clinical practice.
- The center will serve as a hub for the multidisciplinary development of AI in imaging to meet unmet clinical needs and provide a platform to measure the impact and
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Amazon Textract Is Now HIPAA Eligible, Extracts Text/Data From Scanned Docs
- AWS announced that Amazon Textract, a Machine Learning (ML) service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents, is now HIPAA-eligible.- Amazon Textract will make it easy for customers to accurately and securely process millions of documents in a matter of hours, saving time and lowering processing costs.- Cerner, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and The American Heart Association are already exploring new ways use the power of ML to automate their current workloads
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Geisinger Inks 10-Year Deal to Make Cerner Its Preferred Data Platform
- Geisinger announced a 10-year deal with Cerner to expand its use of the HealtheIntent population health platform and make it the health system’s preferred data platform. - Geisinger plans to use the platform to gain actionable insights and intelligence by bringing together data from across it's health system. - Geisinger and Cerner will also create an innovation team to discover, build and implement transformative health care solutions with AI and machine learning.This morning during the
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