What You Should Know:
- Cosmos Health Inc., a global healthcare group with proprietary lines of nutraceuticals and distributor of pharmaceuticals, branded generics, OTC medications and medical devices, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ZipDoctor Inc. from American International Holdings Corp (AMIH) for an undisclosed sum.
- ZipDoctor Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of American International Holdings Corp. (AMIH), is a direct-to-consumer
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5 Key Trends Driving Purchasing Decisions in Healthcare IT
As the healthcare industry continues to evolve and transform with providers facing increasing financial burdens and dynamic patient expectations, Signify Research has had the opportunity to speak to 100s of C-suite health IT executives and departmental decision-makers. Our conversations with these healthcare leaders have provided greater insight into their organizations’ technology and business strategies. It has also illuminated their views on the industry’s most pressing issues. Here are
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Eko Launches Cardiac Disease Detection Platform, SENSORA
What You Should Know:
- Eko, a digital health company applying artificial intelligence (AI) in the fight against heart and lung disease launches the SENSORA™ Cardiac Disease Detection Platform.
- SENSORA™ currently features AI that objectively identifies structural murmurs, a sign of valvular heart disease, and Care Pathway Analytics software that provides downstream visibility and metrics of the patient journey through the healthcare system.
Eko SENSORA Cardiac Disease Detection
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Unintended Bias in AI-Driven Healthcare Applications
What You Should Know:
- Over the past few years, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and more specifically, Machine Learning (ML) technology, have experienced rapid adoption in the healthcare space as tools for diagnosis and decision-making. Such tools are intended to address challenges in the healthcare system to both processes and put into practice the proliferating medical findings, and also to support delivery of the promise of personalized and precision medicine.
- Unintended bias in AI and
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Ibex’s AI-Powered Cancer Diagnostics Solution Obtains CE Mark
What You Should Know:
- Ibex Medical Analytics today announced that Galen™ Prostate has become the first standalone AI-powered cancer diagnostics solution to obtain CE Mark under Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation (IVDR) for supporting pathologists in the primary diagnosis of prostate biopsies.
- Galen Prostate is the first standalone AI-based cancer diagnostics product of its kind certified under the IVDR.
- During 2023, Ibex plans to migrate additional
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Dexcom Ventures Invests in MedCrypt’s Medical Device Cybersecurity Platform
What You Should Know:
- MedCrypt, the proactive cybersecurity solution provider for medical devices and manufacturers, will announce the close of a Series B extension round led by Dexcom Ventures, bringing the company's total to date to $36.4M.
- With support from three major investors, Johnson & Johnson Innovations, Intuitive Ventures, and Dexcom Ventures, MedCrypt continues to lead the way in developing cybersecurity technologies and infrastructure for life-saving medical
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Top 10 Health Technology Hazards in 2023 to Watch
What You Should Know:
- ECRI, the nation's largest non-profit patient safety organization, names communications gaps with recalls of home-use medical devices as the nation’s most pressing health technology safety issue for 2023.
- ECRI’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2023 list identifies the potential sources of danger that will warrant the greatest attention for the coming year and offers practical recommendations for reducing
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17 Executive Hospital/Health System Predictions to Watch in 2023
Vijay Kedar, Co-Founder and CEO at Tomorrow Health
Health systems will realize their challenges are not transitory but systemic: This year saw health systems facing a myriad of compounding threats – from historic inflation exacerbating their cost structures, front-line clinician burnout driving widespread labor shortages, and increased capacity issues that left patients in hospital facilities one full day longer than in the prior year. As the financial markets turned south, many institutions
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20 Executives Share Health IT Predictions to Watch in 2023
We asked several healthcare executives to share their health IT predictions and trends for 2023.
Nate Maslak, the co-founder/CEO of Ribbon Health
Data Personalization: 38% of consumers want more personalized and inclusive healthcare options. In 2023, we’ll see a greater shift towards healthcare enterprises prioritizing this personalization, by innovating their current data infrastructure to show a range of information that lets a patient make an educated care decision based on what
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Security and Compliance Oversight Will Reduce Business Communication Risk for Healthcare in 2023
Cyber attacks on healthcare organizations are by no means just as simple as hackers going after healthcare data for the sake of obtaining critical data of patients, their families, or the organization's employees. A growing number of these attacks are executed by nation-states and other organized criminal organizations, which have the financial resources and the expertise to launch ever-more sophisticated and costly assaults against these organizations. Some of these attacks have been traced
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