What You Should Know: - Inspire Medical Systems has announced its investment in EnsoData, an artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare company helping clinicians uncover disease while patients sleep. - EnsoData’s technology helps address some of the most intractable problems in healthcare: access and affordability for patients and clinician burnout. By letting doctors and other clinicians use powerful AI to automatically analyze and diagnose diseases while a patient sleeps, EnsoData
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EnsoData Raises $9M to Accelerate Waveform AI Platform for Clinicians
What You Should Know: - EnsoData announces its official launch and a $9M Series A funding round to accelerate analysis and understanding of human health, starting with sleep disorder diagnoses. - Using AI, EnsoData’s technology transforms billions of waveform data points (outputs from heartbeats on an EKG, eye movement through an EOG, brain waves through an EEG, etc.) collected from sensors in medical devices and wearables into an easy-to-read report. - EnsoData saves clinics and
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Measures Adopted by Public Health Agencies to Mitigate the Consequences of COVID-19
The number of people infected by COVID-19 worldwide is quickly moving toward 2 million and almost 33% of them are from the U.S. The circumstance is past dreary and administrative bodies in the U.S. are acting rapidly to contain the harm coming about because of the spread of this novel infection. Starting with the entry restrictions, federal agencies and healthcare regulatory bodies have executed a few measures to ensure the wellbeing and interests of healthcare professionals, program
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Sleep Wearable Beddr Launches First Sleep Health Solution for Employers
- Beddr launches first holistic sleep wellness program for employers that leverages clinical-grade data from Beddr’s FDA cleared wearable.- Beddr expands upon its FDA-listed sleep wearable with improved data and insights, expert-led sleep coaching and sleep physician telemedicine network.Beddr, a pioneer in precision sleep health launched an industry-first comprehensive solution for employers focused on helping employees identify and treat the root causes of chronic sleep issues. The program
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Rimidi Adds Obesity View to EHR-Integrated Platform for Clinicians
- Rimidi adds Obesity disease view to its platform to preemptively identify and manage cardiometabolic diseases by combining data from multiple sources into disease ‘views’ that provide a holistic overview of a patient.- With the obesity view, clinicians are better equipped to identify and lower the potential health risks impacting patients- The addition of obesity to Rimidi’s platform addresses the evolving policies and care around obesity, as the chronic disease requires increased medical
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Cerner Designates ResMed’s Home Health & Hospital Platform As Its Preferred Solution
- Cerner forms a collaboration with ResMed to designate ResMed’s Brightree Home Health and Hospice platform as its preferred solution.- Cerner also plans to connect other ResMed digital health data platforms—including those that support 10 million-plus cloud-connectable sleep apnea and respiratory care devices—to its EHR and HealtheIntent population health platform.Cerner and ResMed, a world-leading digital health company, today announced a new collaboration agreement to help providers make more
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Philips Launches Expanded SmartSleep Suite of Solutions in US Market
- Philips launches its expanded SmartSleep suite of digital solutions in the US market to ultimately address approximately 80 percent of all sleep issues worldwide- Collaborative efforts with Walgreens, WebMD enhance consumer access to sleep information and solutions- The new SmartSleep solutions are now available for purchase on Philips.com, Walgreens.com, and BestBuy.com. SmartSleep Deep Sleep Headband and Snore Relief Band will begin to roll out to BestBuy stores across the United States in
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iRhythm, Verily Collaborate to Develop Atrial Fibrillation Detection Solution
- iRhythm and Verily collaborate to develop health management solutions for atrial fibrillation patients.- The iRhythm and Verily collaboration aims to address this underserved population at risk for asymptomatic or silent AFib.- iRhythm will make an upfront payment to Verily of $5 million and potential milestone payments of up to $12.75 million.iRhythm Technologies, Inc. is teaming up with Verily, an Alphabet company focused on the development of digital health solutions aimed at improving the
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New Bariatric Surgical Risk/Benefit Calculator Can Predict Patient’s Risk of Postoperative Complications
The Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP) has announced the launch of a new surgical risk/benefit calculator that will provide metabolic and bariatric surgeons and their patients with accurate, patient-specific information to guide surgical decision making and informed consent. Risk calculator has the ability to predict a patient’s possibility of postoperative remission at one year for up to five different weight-related comorbiditiesBariatric
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Mayo Clinic to Leverage Viome’s Microbiome Analysis Platform in Study to Help Understand Sleep and Obesity
Mayo Clinic is collaborating on a study with Viome, a company transforming health through personalized nutrition based on individual biology to better understand the role of nutrition in disease and to explore the potential of Viome's AI-driven personalized diets in helping manage sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and obesity.
Understanding Microbiome
A person’s microbiome is the entire collection of microbes living in and on the body. The microbiome forms a living layer over your skin
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