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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GHX Names 50 Best Healthcare Providers for Supply Chain Excellence
GHX Names 50 Best Healthcare
Providers for Supply Chain Excellence
- Today, GHX recognized the top 50 performing U.S. and Canadian providers for supply chain excellence chosen from a pool of more than 4,100 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada based on their operational performance, ability to drive down costs through the supply chain.
- After labor, the supply chain is the second largest cost for hospitals and health systems. Improving supply chain processes and
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Valley Health System Becomes First Health System in New Jersey to Prescribe Enterprise-wide Digital Therapeutics
- Valley Health System becomes the first health system in New Jersey to prescribe enterprise-wide digital therapeutics in partnership with Mount Sinai Health System spinoff Rx Health. - The program will use Rx.Health's newly-launched RxStitch engine. Valley Health System (VHS) based in New Jersey announced it will be implemented RxHealth’s digital therapeutics prescribing platform EHR integrated RxStitch Engine to support episodes of care and enterprise-wide digital transformation at VHS. This
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Mount Sinai’s New Precision Wellness App Compares The Effectiveness of Wellness-Related Treatment
- Mount Sinai launches new precision wellness iPhone to for individuals to compare the effectiveness of wellness-related treatments. - The app’s name is derived from what scientists call an “n-of-1” trial, in which individuals compare the effects of different treatments on themselves. - Though the N1 app will initially focus on wellness, these methods and tools may one day be more regularly used in clinical contexts.The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, today announced the launch of a new
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Mount Sinai Launches Diversity Innovation Hub to Tackle Racism, Bias, and Gender Equity in Medicine
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai launches first of its kind Diversity and Inclusion Hub spearheaded by the Mount Sinai’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.- Groundbreaking program to engage the local Harlem community and critical neighborhood stakeholders through innovation to tackle racism, bias, and gender equity in medicine and healthcare.The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – an international leader in medical and scientific training, biomedical research, and patient care –
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Konica Minolta to Accelerate Commercialization of Dynamic Digital Radiography in US Market
Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas, Inc., a provider of medical imaging systems and healthcare IT, along with Shimadzu Medical Systems USA announced a collaborative agreement that will accelerate the commercialization of Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR) in the US healthcare market. Konica Minolta, Inc. and Shimadzu Corporation collaborated on the development of DDR incorporating Konica Minolta's new advanced image processing and Shimadzu's RADspeed Pro radiographic imaging system.
The
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Can Artifical Intelligence Solve The Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemic?
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing epidemic worldwide. Currently, there are 850 million individuals suffering from CKD globally, with 40 million in the United States alone. Of these individuals, 96 percent are not aware of having CKD, as kidney disease often exhibits no symptoms until it has progressed to a late stage.
As this epidemic continues to grow, healthcare providers and organizations are working to determine how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to analyze electronic
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Mount Sinai, Philips, LabCorp to Launch Digital & AI-Enabled Pathology Center of Excellence
Mount Sinai, LabCorp, and Philips announced they are collaborating to establish the Mount Sinai Digital and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Enabled Pathology Center of Excellence. The new center will feature the Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution, the first digital pathology system FDA approved for primary diagnostic use, which will help the organizations enhance the quality and lower the costs of patient care.Role of LabCorpLabCorp will lead the integration of Philips’ system at Mount Sinai,
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