What You Should Know: - Mount Sinai Health System will implement Current Health’s remote patient monitoring (RPM) solution to allow oncology patients to recover at home while being continuously and passively monitored by their care team. - The implementation will reduce hospitalization events and prevent potential patient exposure to infection while bridging the digital health divide as more and more patients engage in telehealth. Current Health today announced that its remote patient
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Mount Sinai Develop Machine Learning Models to Predict Critical Illness and Mortality in COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know: - Mount Sinai researchers have developed machine learning models that predict the likelihood of critical events and mortality in COVID-19 patients within clinically relevant time windows. - The new machine learning models were outlined in a recent study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research—could aid clinical practitioners at Mount Sinai and across the world in the care and
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NVIDIA Develops AI Model to Accurately Predict Oxygen Needs for COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know: - NVIDIA and Massachusetts General Brigham Hospital researchers develop an AI model that determines whether a person showing up in the emergency room with COVID-19 symptoms will need supplemental oxygen hours or even days after an initial exam. - The ultimate goal of this model is to predict the likelihood that a person showing up in the emergency room will need supplemental oxygen, which can aid physicians in determining the appropriate level of care for patients,
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Led by Mount Sinai, Trellus Health Nabs $5M for Precision Platform for Complex Chronic Conditions
What You Should Know: - Trellus Health secures $5M in seed funding and collaborates with Mount Sinai to deliver resilience-driven, connected care, integrating expert clinical and behavioral health for better outcomes. - The first disease Trellus will tackle is IBD, which is one of the costliest chronic conditions with a high mental health burden. Trellus Health, a New York City-based provider of resilience-driven care for people with complex chronic conditions, announced it has
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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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NYC Hospitals Leverage Taxi App to Transport Frontline Health Workers, Patients During COVID-19
What You Should Know: - Curb, a taxi platform that connects two-thirds of the city’s yellow and green taxis, has partnered with organizations like NY Langone, Mount Sinai, American Cancer Society, and the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene to provide frontline workers with a safe alternative to public transit and rideshares like Uber. - Launched during the pandemic, the partnership has enabled Curb to power more than 100,000 taxi rides for doctors,
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Mount Sinai Researchers Develops AI Algorithm to Detect COVID-19 from CT Scans
What You Should Know: - Mount Sinai researchers develop a unique artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to detect COVID-19 based on CT scans and patient data. - The Mount Sinai team integrated data from those CT scans with the clinical information to develop an AI algorithm. It mimics the workflow a physician uses to diagnose COVID-19 and gives a final prediction of positive or negative diagnosis. Mount Sinai researchers are the first in the country to use
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Mount Sinai Deploys Google Nest Cameras for Nurses to Communicate & Monitor COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know: - Mount Sinai deploys Google Nest cameras across the system to help patients with COVID-19 that will enhance the safety of patients and staff, as well as reducing PPE demands. - Google Nest partnered with Mount Sinai in April to pilot the console in a hospital setting as the virus reached peak levels in New York City. The Mount Sinai Health System has teamed up with Google Nest to use the latest in video and audio technologies to monitor some of the
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FCC Approves First Set of 6 COVID-19 Telehealth Program Providers
What You Need to Know: - FCC begins approving funding to boost telehealth during coronavirus pandemic just three days after the opening of the application window. - Congress appropriated $200 million for the FCC to support health care providers’ use of telehealth services during this national emergency. The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved six funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Healthcare providers in some of the
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Study: AI-Powered Solution Achieves High Accuracy for Detecting COVID-19 on CT
What You Should Know: - New RADLogics research that validates the performance of an AI-powered CT image analysis solution that is designed to automatically and accurately detect COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and quantify the disease burden in affected patients. - The study found that the CT image analysis algorithm – developed from multiple international datasets – was able to differentiate 157 patients with and without COVID-19 with a 0.996 AUC (plus, 98.2 percent sensitivity and 92.2 percent
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