What You Should Know:
- Knox Community Hospital has selected Hicuity Health to provide both tele-ICU and cardiac telemetry services. Hicuity Health is well-positioned to address the hospital’s multiple care needs and enables the facility to expand access to critical care within the community while also supporting Knox clinical staff as they address the around-the-clock challenges of critical care.
- By partnering
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OHSU to Deploy Virtual ICU Across 8 Sites to Extend Care to Patients in Rural Communities
What You Should Know:
- With ICU beds near capacity across the United States,
GE Healthcare announced a strategic partnership with Oregon Health and Science
University (OHSU) that will allow OHSU to oversee and help provide care to ICU
patients across eight hospital sites via a “Virtual ICU” (VICU), using the GE
Healthcare Mural Virtual Care Solution.
- The VICU provides critical care specialists at OHSU
with digital tools to deploy hospital defined care protocols to remotely
identify
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FDA Clears ICU Device That Predicts Respiratory Failure to Support COVID-19
What You Should Know:
- CLEW is awarded FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)
for its predictive analytics platform in support of COVID-19 patients.
- CLEW is the only device authorized by the FDA to
provide early identification of patients who are likely to experience
respiratory failure of hemodynamic instability—both significant complications
associated with COVID-19.
- CLEW is already implemented in coronavirus units in two
Israeli hospitals, and being tested by several US
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CLEW Lands $20M to Expand AI-Powered Critical Care Platform in the US Market
- CLEW closes a $20M Series B round of funding to scale US operations and commercialize CLEW’s critical care platform. - CLEW is a real-time AI analytics platform designed to help providers make better informed clinical decisions by predicting life-threatening complications across various medical care settings.CLEW, a digital health startup announced that it has successfully concluded its Series B funding, bringing the total capital raised to over $20 million. The round was led by Pitango
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3 Takeaways From The 2019 HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference
The HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Conference attracted over 2,600 delegates from 64 countries to Helsinki in June 2019. While there was a strong focus on healthcare in the Nordics, the conference brought with it a wide variety of vendors from across the globe all looking for new opportunities on the show floor. Our key takeaway – the goal to change mindsets in Europe towards how healthcare can be improved through the use of technology. We look at a few examples below, namely:- Developing
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Analysis: Philips’ Evolution to a Pure-play Healthcare Technology Vendor
The last two-to-three years we have seen Philips complete its transformation into a pure-play healthcare technology vendor. It has reduced its interest in its remaining non-healthcare business Philips Lighting/Signify (now owning only a 16.5% share), made 16 healthcare technology acquisitions since the start of 2017 and organized its internal business units into three core healthcare technology segments, Personal Health, Diagnosis & Treatment and Connected Care. A few weeks ago, several of
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Penn Medicine Launches Telemedicine Hub with Center for Connected Care
Penn Medicine has announced the launch of their new telemedicine hub, Penn Medicine Center for Connected Care that centralizes the health system’s telemedicine activities. The center also includes its almost 15-year-old Penn E-lert eICU for the critically ill, a tele-homecare service for the chronically ill, as well as a telemedicine service linking obstetricians to trauma surgeons caring for critically injured pregnant women, and a tele-urgent care service which eliminates the need for physical
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Philips Unveils New teleICU Platform for Seamless Integration Between teleICU and Bedside Care Teams
Philips has announced the debut of its eCareManager 4.1 enterprise telehealth software that allows intensivists to provide more efficient care across a larger patient population, allowing for greater scale and potentially reducing operating costs. The new platform builds on Philips success in delivering population health management solutions to help combat shortages of critical care teams by providing actionable insights to help improve outcomes in the most complex patient cases.Designed to be
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