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AI-Enabled Butterfly Network Lung Tool Receives FDA Clearance

by Fred Pennic 04/03/2023 Leave a Comment

AI-Enabled Butterfly Network Lung Tool Receives FDA Clearance

What You Should Know: - Today, Butterfly Network announced it received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for a groundbreaking AI-enabled tool named AI-enabled Auto B-line Counter that will help physicians assess adults’ lungs and accelerate providers’ abilities to make informed treatment decisions. Butterfly used data inputs from hundreds of sites across the country to train and develop its AI algorithms, offering potential for a broad and diverse range of age, gender, body mass index, ethnicity,
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Gates Foundation Donates $5M for 1,000 Butterfly Ultrasounds to Sub-Saharan Africa

by Fred Pennic 03/09/2022 Leave a Comment

Butterfly iQ Expands Whole-Body Ultrasound System to Android Devices

What You Should Know: - Butterfly Network, Inc. (NYSE: BFLY), a digital health company transforming care with handheld, whole-body ultrasound, today announced it received a grant in the amount of $5 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve maternal and fetal health. - Through this grant Butterfly will provide 1,000 healthcare workers in Sub-Saharan Africa with Butterfly iQ+, the world’s only handheld Advance Maternal and Fetal Health Butterfly Network will
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4 Predictions for Diabetes Management and Technology in 2021

by Jordan Messler, MD, SFHM, FACP, Executive Director, Clinical Practice, Glytec 01/08/2021 Leave a Comment

Is Glucometrics The Missing Data in the Fight Against COVID-19?

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to put an unprecedented amount of strain on the entire healthcare sector, and the industry has responded by accelerating the ways innovation is developed and adopted. Health leaders have faced a generational challenge and the result has been the rapid deployment of technology to address dire patient needs. Health systems, physicians, and frontline staff pulled together in remarkable fashion to implement these emerging technologies that enhance the ways patients
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Gates Foundation Awards Caption Health $4.95M Grant to Develop AI-Guided Lung Ultrasound System

by Fred Pennic 11/12/2020 Leave a Comment

Caption Health AI Awarded FDA Clearance for Point-of-Care Ejection Fraction Evaluation

What You Should Know: - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards Caption Health a $4.5M grant to support the development of an AI-guided lung ultrasound system. - The grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will be leveraged to create new AI technology that allows medical professionals without prior ultrasound experience to perform lung ultrasounds, expanding access to quality medical care. Caption Health, a leading medical artificial intelligence (AI) company, today
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Mobile Point-of-Care Ultrasound Is Now A Frontline Warrior in Pandemic

by Diku Mandavia, M.D., SVP, Chief Medical Officer at FUJIFILM Sonosite 11/11/2020 Leave a Comment

Point-of-Care Ultrasounds is Now a Frontline Warrior in Battling The Pandemic

Health authorities need to prioritize delivery and the repurposing of mobile point-of-care ultrasound machines which have proven to be reliable, affordable, and effective in saving the lives of coronavirus patients.   Most Americans are familiar with ultrasound technology from the scans done to check on the status of the fetus during pregnancy.   But far fewer are aware of how valuable mobile versions of these units have also become in America’s emergency rooms where they almost
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Is Glucometrics The Missing Data in the Fight Against COVID-19?

by Jordan Messler, MD, SFHM, FACP, Executive Director, Clinical Practice, Glytec 09/29/2020 Leave a Comment

Is Glucometrics The Missing Data in the Fight Against COVID-19?

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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Change Healthcare Launches New AI Model to Extract Diagnostic Data from EHRs for Case Management

by Fred Pennic 09/11/2020 Leave a Comment

Change Healthcare Launches New AI Model to Extract Diagnostic Data from EHRs for Case Management

What You Should Know: - Change Healthcare launches a new artificial intelligence model that automatically extracts diagnostic data from clinical notes to increase the efficiency of automated medical necessity reviews by over 20%. - The new Change Healthcare AI models are trained using clinical data and are honed by expert physicians. Change Healthcare unveils new innovative new Artificial Intelligence models, trained by expert physicians, which extract meaningful diagnostic
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ENvizion Raises $18M for “Waze”-Like Tool for Human Digestive Tract

by Fred Pennic 09/03/2020 Leave a Comment

ENvizion Raises $18M for “Waze”-Like Tool for Human Digestive Tract

What You Should Know: - ENvizion, the FDA 510(k) cleared leader for enteral feeding tube (EFT) navigation technology, has raised $18M for the ENvue system, its “Waze”-like tool for the human digestive tract. - ENvizion’s device enables nurses to navigate the feeding tube with the help of a real-time 3D map of the patient’s actual body, and its sensor warns if the tube has veered towards the lungs. - The company is also partnering with one of the largest private
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Super-Spreading of COVID-19 Co-Infections Reveals a Deadly Diagnostics Gap

by Oliver Schacht, PhD, CEO of OpGen 08/03/2020 Leave a Comment

Super-Spreading of COVID-19 Co-Infections Reveals a Deadly Diagnostics Gap

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 acquiring and spreading a deadly
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How Social Determinants of Health Will Impact the Future of Benefit Coverages

by Kevin Riley, SVP and General Manager, Vlocity Health 06/18/2020 Leave a Comment

How Social Determinants of Health Will Impact the Future of Benefit Coverages

Do you have access to healthy foods, transportation to a doctor, high-speed internet for telemed appointments, or a roof over your head? These are assumptions that most of us take for granted, and are not the questions that insurers usually take into consideration. But, as they look to increase member outcomes and foster long-term customer loyalty, considering the changing needs of many consumers in the face of today’s current affairs, it’s time they did. In fact, forward-looking health plans
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