What You Should Know:
- Change Healthcare launches national data resource on
social determinants of health (SDoH) for doctors, insurers and life sciences
organizations to better understand the connection between where a person lives
and how they live their life to the care a patient receives and their health
outcome.
- 80% of U.S. health outcomes are tied to a patient’s
social and economic situation, ranging from food, housing, and transportation
insecurity to ethnicity.
Change
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Mayo Clinic Launches Vocal Biomarker Study for Pulmonary Hypertension Detection
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic announced a collaboration with Vocalis
Health to to research and develop new voice-based tools for screening, detecting
and monitoring patient health, beginning with a study to identify vocal
biomarkers to detect pulmonary hypertension (PH).
- The clinical validation study will utilize Vocalis
Health’s proprietary software, which can operate on any connected voice
platform (mobile, computer, tablet, etc.) to analyze patients’ health based on
voice
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10 Google Search Terms Can Help Experts Predict COVID-19 Hot Spots
What You Should Know:
- New Mayo Clinic study reveals strong correlations were found between keyword searches on the internet search engine Google Trends and COVID-19 outbreaks in parts of the U.S.
- The Mayo Clinic study searched for 10 keywords that
were chosen based on how commonly they were used and emerging patterns on the
internet and in Google News at that time.
Strong correlations were found between keyword searches on
the internet search engine Google Trends and
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Mayo Clinic Launches On-Demand Diagnostic Testing Platform for COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic and Safe Health Systems launch a new health and connected diagnostics platform to lower costs and streamline access to care.
- The SAFE platform enables the rapid implementation of custom digital health applications, which combine digital provider services, artificial intelligence-based care automation, and remote point of care diagnostics.
Mayo Clinic and
Safe Health Group, Inc. announced the formation of Safe Health Systems, Inc.,
a
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CloudMD Acquires Digital Patient Engagement Platform iMD Health Global for $10M
What You Should Know:
- CloudMD announces it will acquire digital patient engagement platform iMD Health Global for $10M
- The integration of iMD’s educational platform will enable CloudMD to provide its entire network of over 3000 healthcare practitioners, specialists, and allied health professionals and almost 3 million patients with valuable educational resources on healthcare issues, treatments, and preventative solutions.
CloudMD Software & Services Inc., a Vancouver,
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Carrum Health Adds Mayo Clinic to COE Platform for Cost-Effective Surgical Care
What You Should Know:
- Carrum Health, a digital health company that connects
employers and employees with hospital Centers of Excellence (COEs) to provide
more cost-effective surgical care announces the addition of Mayo Clinic to
Carrum's COE platform.
- As part of the collaboration, employees and covered
dependents at self-insured companies offering the Carrum Health surgery benefit
will now have access to Mayo Clinic providers with little or no cost.
- Self-insured employers,
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Eko Awarded $2.7M NIH Grant for Heart Murmur & Valvular Heart Disease Detection Algorithms
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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Mayo Clinic Performs First Shoulder Arthroplasty Procedure Using Mixed Reality
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN performed the first-ever shoulder arthroplasty procedure using Wright Medical’s groundbreaking BLUPRINT Mixed Reality Technology, which provides surgeons a 3-D holographic view of the patient’s pre-operative plan.
- The Mixed Reality Application is the
latest addition to Wright’s BLUEPRINT ecosystem and enables a surgeon to
maintain a direct view of the surgical site and simultaneously visualize and
manipulate a
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Mayo Clinic to Automate Patient Triage in ED to Reduce Physician Burden, Optimize Emergency Room Visits
What You Should Know:
- Mayo Clinic has inked a partnership Diagnostic Robotics
to automate their patient triage system – allowing Mayo Clinic to make quicker,
smarter decisions for patients when limited medical resources are available.
- The new AI-driven platform will supplement the
physician decision-making process in real-time by assisting with the clinical
intake of patients – analyzing a simple questionnaire filled out by patients
and rapidly determining their symptoms, test
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18 Healthcare Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Companies to Watch
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are redefining what's possible in healthcare, as well as other sectors. The 18 companies listed below are some of the top virtual and augmented reality companies in the medical industry.
Defining Augmented Reality
Augmented
reality is a technology that blends real-world elements with virtual ones. For
example, a person might visit a trade show and aim their smartphone at a
display to activate an AR experience that allows them to see
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