With its share price falling from more than $66 to less than $24, September was a tumultuous month for Nanox.
On August 25th, the medical imaging start-up closed its initial public offering, having raised $190m from the sale of 10,555,556 ordinary shares at a price of $18 each. Money poured in as investors were sold on Nanox’s cold cathode x-ray source and the subsequent reduction in costs that it would enable, as well as the vendor’s pay-per-scan pricing model that would let the company
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Radiology | Medical Imaging | News, Insights, Analysis - HIT Consultant
Making the Case: Why Pagers and Smartphones Should Wed
Clinicians in healthcare settings typically have information coming at them from all directions, at all times, and often with little distinction as to the level of urgency. It makes for inefficiency and confusion for today’s busy doctor.
In today’s hospital setting, that disjointed communication creates dissonance and distraction. Even though the world has gravitated to the ubiquitous use of smartphones, that’s not the dominant form of connection for physicians. The vast majority of hospitals
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Thriving in a Value-Based Care Environment: Impacting Outcome-to-Cost Ratio
As the COVID-19 pandemic creates surges in acute care, many imaging departments are experiencing a decrease in volume, due to patients deferring or canceling non-urgent appointments and surgeries. The impact of this makes it painfully obvious that -- because imaging departments rely on a fee-for-service model – when the volume is down, finances suffer. As an aspect of healthcare that has historically been hyper-focused on volume, adoption of a value-based care approach in radiology has evolved
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AWS, PHDA Collaborate to Develop Breast Cancer Screening and Depression Machine Learning Models
What You Should Know:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the Pittsburgh Health Data Alliance (PHDA) announce a collaboration to produce more accurate machine learning models for breast cancer screening and depression.
- In work funded through the PHDA-AWS collaboration, a research team led by Shandong Wu, an associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Radiology, is using deep-learning systems to analyze mammograms in order to predict the short‐term risk of developing
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Tampa General, Philips Ink 7-Year Partnership to All Bedside Patient and Vital Sign Monitors
What You Should Know:
- Tampa General Hospital announces a
seven-year strategic partnership with Philips to innovate and improve patient
experience.
- As part of the partnership, Tampa
General will replace all bedside patient and vital sign monitors throughout the
1,006-bed hospital and upgrade key imaging equipment in the catheterization
laboratories and interventional radiology rooms.
Tampa General Hospital
(TGH) and Philips today
announced they are creating a
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RADLogics Secures FDA Clearance for AI-Powered Chest X-Ray App for Triage & Prioritization
What You Should Know:
- RADLogics today announced that it has secured
510(k) clearance from the FDA for the company’s novel AI-Powered chest X-ray pneumothorax application,
which identifies and prioritizes chest X-ray scans that appear
to contain a pneumothorax, a collapsed lung, for urgent radiologist review.
- RADLogics’ FDA cleared CT and X-ray solutions
– including this application – are
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Radiology Partners Acquires MEDNAX Radiology Solutions for $885M
What You Should Know:
- Radiology Partners acquires MEDNAX Radiology Solutions,
a division of MEDNAX, Inc. for $885M in cash.
- The acquisition accelerates Radiology Partners’ mission to transform radiology, offer unparalleled clinical value and service at scale, and further elevate the role of radiologists within the healthcare field.
Radiology Partners
(RP),a radiology practice in the U.S., announced a definitive agreement to acquire
MEDNAX Radiology Solutions, a division
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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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MEDITECH Launches Expanse Virtual Assistant Through Nuance
What You Should Know:
- MEDITECH launches Expanse Virtual Assistant, enabling
users to quickly access, navigate, and control the EHR using advanced Nuance
Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant technology.
- Physicians can leverage Expanse Virtual Assistant to
navigate and search patient charts for key areas of information including lab
results, medications, allergies, radiology images, and more.
MEDITECH and Nuance Communications Inc. (Nuance),
today announced a collaboration to
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CancerIQ Raises $5M to Expand Genetic Cancer Risk Assessment Platform
What You Should Know:
- CancerIQ raises $5M in Series A funding led by HealthXVentures to accelerate the growth of its genetic cancer risk assessment platform to identify and manage patients at high risk of cancer.
- CancerIQ’s technology enables hospitals to use genomics
to personalize the prevention and early detection of cancer.
- Two new hires recently joined CancerIQ’s newly formed
Integrated Products team from Epic, with the goal of advancing CancerIQ’s
integration with leading
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