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
Diku Mandavia, M.D., SVP, Chief Medical Officer at FUJIFILM Sonosite
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
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Is Glucometrics The Missing Data in the Fight Against COVID-19?
Jordan Messler, MD, SFHM, FACP, Executive Director, Clinical Practice, Glytec
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,
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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
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
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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How Social Determinants of Health Will Impact the Future of Benefit Coverages
Kevin Riley, SVP and General Manager, Vlocity Health
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
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Coding in Age of COVID-19: Deciphering Coding Nuances, Best Practices
Without much warning, the novel Coronavirus, or COVID-19, has taken over our healthcare system. It has taxed our healthcare workers, our national stockpiles of PPE, and affected millions of Americans nationwide. In addition to healthcare workers on the front lines, the pandemic has also impacted the healthcare revenue cycle, causing major confusion, questions, and inconsistencies as coding specialists learn the latest COVID-19 codes and guidelines at warp speed. With cases rising by the tens of
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How AR and MR Technology Can Reduce Medical Vulnerability to Improve the Patient Experience
Paul Jensen, President, Novarad
Hospitals and health systems work hard every day to deliver patient-centered care. In fact, “the patient experience” is something now being measured, monitored and discussed throughout the healthcare continuum. Yet for most patients, moments of anxiety and medical vulnerability still abound, and the conversation rarely addresses this important fact.
Patients awaiting an X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) scan, for instance,
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EarlySign, Israeli HMO Launch AI Algorithm to Detect High-Risk COVID-19 Cases
What You Should Know:
Medial EarlySign announced the first clinical
implementation of its AI-based solution to identify patients at highest risk of
COVID-19 complications, with leading Israeli HMO Maccabi Healthcare
Services.
The new algorithm uses a wide range of routine medical
information to objectively flag high-risk patients who should be fast-tracked
for COVID-19 testing, facilitating earlier treatment to reduce severe
cases, optimize treatment decisions and
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