Glucometrics – the system-wide analysis of inpatient glucose data – should be of fundamental interest for hospital administrators striving to improve the outcomes of their patients.
Why is this data so important? Proper glycemic control has been linked to improved outcomes and decreased length of stay time and time again across a myriad of conditions – whether it’s someone recuperating from a heart attack, battling pneumonia, or recovering from surgery.
The U.S. health system lacks
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The COVID-19 Data Challenges Facing Payers
Both payers and providers can benefit from the same or similar high-quality data and can work together to provide the best possible services to patients with COVID-19 while avoiding overloading the healthcare system. The key is to use combined payer, clinical, and social data plus technology such as telehealth and artificial intelligence (AI).
Payer Perspective on COVID-19
The overriding concern for payers during the COVID-19 crisis is the need to support member health. During an
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Beyond Limits Nabs $133M to Drive Global Expansion of AI Technology
What You Should Know:
- Beyond Limits, an AI provider that uniquely uses 45
technologies developed at Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to provide
business intelligence for healthcare raises $133M in funding.
- Beyond Limits’ AI predictive model is helping
healthcare professionals fight against COVID-19 including determining the
percentage of patients that may need ventilators and ECMO in the ICU and
dialysis units.
Beyond Limits, an LA-based industrial and enterprise-grade AI
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How Parkland Leverages Machine Learning, Geospatial Analytics to Reduce COVID-19 Exposure in Dallas
What You Should Know:
- How Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation developed a machine learning-driven predictive model called the COVID-19 Proximity Index for Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
- This program helps frontline workers to quickly identify which identify patients at the highest risk of exposure to COVID-19 by using geospatial analytics.
- In addition, the program helps triage patients while
improving the health and safety of hospital workers as well as the friends
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Backed by Kaiser, Osso VR Raises $14M for VR Surgical Training Platform
What You Should Know:
- Osso VR raises $14M in Series A funding led by Kaiser
Permanente Ventures (KPV) to expand its virtual reality (VR) surgical training
platform.
- Using immersive VR technology, Osso VR’s scalable platform offers a realistic, hands-on training environment that leads to real-world performance gains and ultimately improved patient outcomes.
Osso VR, a Palo Alto, CA-based validated Virtual Reality (VR) surgical training platform, today announced it has raised $14M
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Corindus Vascular Robotics CEO Departure, UPMC Enterprises’ New President, Nordic Consulting’s New CIO, Other Health IT Hires
Mark Toland, CEO of Corindus Vascular Robotics (acquired by Siemens for $1.1B last year), has announced his departure and will be joining BioStar Capital, a health-tech venture capital group focused on cardiovascular and orthopedic medical devices. As a partner and entrepreneur in residence, Mark will help to identify and develop innovative companies leveraging AI, deep learning, robotics, and other transformative technologies that address a wide range of unmet needs. The BioStar team has
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FUJIFILM Sonosite & the CHEST Foundation Partner for COVID-19 Research
What You Should Know:
- FUJIFILM Sonosite, Inc. today announced their
partnership with the CHEST Foundation, the charitable foundation of the
American College of Chest Physicians, on the CHEST Foundation COVID-19 Research
Grant program.
- To support this program, FUJIFILM Sonosite is contributing $70,000 to the foundation and will donate newly launched Sonosite PX ultrasound systems to the selected research award sites.
FUJIFILM Sonosite, Inc.,
the world leader in
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Evidation’s Appoints Co-CEO, Greenway’s New President, Other Health IT Appointments
Evidation’s Board of Directors has appointed Christine Lemke as Co-CEO alongside Executive Chair Deborah Kilpatrick.
Greenway Health appoints Pratap Sarker as President to oversee all commercial and customer-focused functions including sales, marketing, and customer success. He will also work closely with Greenway’s clearinghouse, revenue cycle and IT teams to ensure the delivery of quality solutions that are critically needed to support practices’ business continuity, as well as their
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Equality Health Launches Social Determinants Program to Tackle Health Disparities
What You Should Know:
- Equality Health launches Social
and Cultural Risk Assessment (SCRA™) program to address social determinants of health
(SDoH)
- With Equality Health’s SCRA program, social determinants act as any other quality metric, with a far less
burdensome reporting process.
Equality Health, a whole-health delivery
system, has pioneered a comprehensive cultural care program that enables
providers to identify and
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Intel, Samsung Collaborate on AI-Powered Fetal Ultrasound Smart Workflow
What You Should Know:
- Samsung Medison and Intel collaborate on AI-powered new
smart workflow solutions to improve obstetric measurements that contribute to
maternal and fetal safety.
- BiometryAssist automates and standardizes fetal
measurements in approximately 85 milliseconds with a single click, providing
over 97% accuracy.
- BiometryAssist and LaborAssist are already in use in 80
countries, including the United States, Korea, Italy, France, Brazil and
Russia. The solutions
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