What You Should Know:
- physIQ has been selected by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to develop an innovative AI-based COVID-19 digital biomarker solution to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Early detection of COVID-19 decompensation in patients
is complicated by infrequent and non-specific clinical data. The first-in-kind
tool will collect and analyzes continuous physiologic data could provide early
clinical indicators of COVID-19 decompensation.
The National Cancer
Institute
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AHIMA to Provide MEDITECH Expanse EHR Training to 16k Students
What You Should Know:
- The American Health Information Management Association
(AHIMA) has selected MEDITECH to provide access to digital training for 16,000
students in over 300 colleges and universities using MEDITECH Expanse EHR.
- MEDITECH Expanse will be offered as part of the AHIMA
VLab™ — an online-based health information environment that features multiple
software applications and corresponding lab lessons.
MEDITECH is
extending its relationship with The American
Health
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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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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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Super-Spreading of COVID-19 Co-Infections Reveals a Deadly Diagnostics Gap
Oliver Schacht, PhD, CEO of OpGen
Secondary bacterial or fungal co-infections in COVID-19 patients have received inadequate attention from the public. For most, co-infections pose little to no risk according to reports that an estimated 8% of patients are found to experience this during hospital admission – a relatively low number compared to the global impact of the virus. However, once a patient enters a hospital for care or becomes ventilated while in the ICU, the risk for
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Provider Pilot Uses Video Games as Therapy for Children with Autism
What You Should Know:
- Magellan Health launches a pilot program for a group of
providers that will begin using video games as therapy for children with autism
and other behavioral health conditions.
- As part of the pilot program, patients will be given
access to the video platform developed by Mightier, a digital health company
born out of Boston Children’s' Hospital and Harvard.
- The games include a wearable heart rate monitor &
tablet loaded with 25 different
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Israeli Hospital Launches Innovative “Mega Lab” to Improve Lab Results & Patient Care
What You Should Know:
- Israel’s
Sheba Medical Center launches “Mega Lab” solution that improves patient
care through lab technology advances that expedite lab test results and
decrease human error.
- The “Mega
Lab” simultaneously processes routine as well as urgent tests, under world
regulatory standards of the medical lab-specific ISO 15189. An automated system
sorts tests according to urgency, performing 7-8 tasks simultaneously,
including identifying the type of test tube and
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Using HIEs to Prepopulate Forms Improves Public Health Disease Reporting, Study Finds
Brian Dixon, PhD, is director of public health informatics at Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI. Shaun Grannis, M.D., is vice president for data and analytics at Regenstrief Institute and a professor of family medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine.
What You Should Know:
- A new study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University shows that using electronic health information exchanges (HIE) to prepopulate
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UCLA Health’s COVID-19 Swab Shortage Solved With 3D-Printed Swabs
What You Should Know:
- With COVID-19 numbers rising in California, an innovative project has solved UCLA Health's testing swabs shortage with 3D-printed swabs.
- In just over a month, and after conducting rigorous clinical testing of several 3D-printed swab prototypes on patients with COVID-19, UCLA Health was granted permission from the Food and Drug Administration to use the most promising design.
An innovative effort launched in April and led by a fellow in the UCLA
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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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