We asked several healthcare executives to share their health IT predictions and trends for 2023. Nate Maslak, the co-founder/CEO of Ribbon Health Data Personalization: 38% of consumers want more personalized and inclusive healthcare options. In 2023, we’ll see a greater shift towards healthcare enterprises prioritizing this personalization, by innovating their current data infrastructure to show a range of information that lets a patient make an educated care decision based on what
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Liver Cancer Awareness – Here’s What You Need to Know in 2023
By the end of 2022, nearly 42,00 new cases of primary liver cancer will be diagnosed in the United States. In fact, liver cancer incidence rates have more than tripled since 1980, marking an increased need for better detection and diagnosis. We might not talk about liver cancer as much as we do breast or lung cancer, but it’s a real threat to millions of Americans – and we need to continue spreading awareness. Early detection is especially critical in treating liver cancer.
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Exec Hires: GE HealthCare Names Taha Kass-Hout First Chief Technology Officer
What You Should Know: GE HealthCare announced today that Taha Kass-Hout MD, MS has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead the company’s new science and technology organization. - Reporting to GE HealthCare President & CEO Peter Arduini, Dr. Kass-Hout will help drive GE HealthCare’s D3 precision care strategy, a framework and digital products that emphasize the company’s smart devices, aligned to disease states and enabled by digital. D3 brings data and insights together to
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Analysis: RSNA 2022: Predictions vs Reality
Much has already been written about attendance at RSNA, but from a first-hand perspective, RSNA 2022 could be regarded as a step back toward “normal”. Amongst mostly bustling halls, vendors reported very positive feedback on the volume and quality of customer meetings, with one prominent global imaging vendor citing “We’re signing deals here at the show again – things are looking up”. Against this positive backdrop, however, the stark challenges facing radiology in a post-COVID world were
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21st Century Pregnancy Care: Unleashing The Power of RNA
While maternal mortality is on the rise in the U.S., pregnancy health has seen little innovation in understanding the underlying biology of disease and is ripe for change. Nowhere is this more evident than in the realm of the prediction of preeclampsia. Fortunately, with new technology on the horizon, doctors will finally be able to predict preeclampsia and other pregnancy complications before they arise by evaluating the underlying biology of each pregnancy expressed through RNA messages.
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Clarius Marketplace Launches for AI Ultrasound Innovators
What You Should Know: - Clarius Mobile Health, a leading provider of high-definition wireless ultrasound systems, today announced Clarius Marketplace, a new platform that enables ultrasound innovators to bring their AI-powered software solutions to market faster by integrating with the Clarius ecosystem, which includes 10 wireless ultrasound scanners and advanced Software-as-a-Service. - Clarius members will gain access to solutions designed to streamline ultrasound training,
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Backed by $5M Grant, Butterfly Network Deploys 500 Devices to Healthcare Workers in Kenya
What You Should Know: - Butterfly Network announce the deployment of 500 Butterfly iQ+ devices, the world’s only handheld, whole-body ultrasound probe, to healthcare practitioners in Kenya to advance maternal and fetal health. - This deployment is part of a $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand access to medical imaging across Sub-Saharan Africa. Why It Matters According to the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa1, about 830 women
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RWJUH Opens Center for Innovation for Medical Research
What You Should Know: - Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH), an RWJBarnabas Health facility, and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS) launched a new model for medical research and innovation today at the grand opening of its Center for Innovation, located on the main campus of the hospital. - The Center for Innovation is a partnership between RWJUH and Rutgers RWJMS to bring together clinicians, researchers and private industry to invent and develop new
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AI More Accurate for Cardiac Diagnosis than Echocardiogram Assessments
What You Should Know: - In a first-of-its-kind randomized clinical trial led by researchers at the Smidt Heart Institute and the Division of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, artificial intelligence (AI) proved more successful in assessing and diagnosing cardiac function when compared to echocardiogram assessments made by sonographers. - The results, announced during a late-breaking presentation at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2022, have immediate
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EchoNous Alliance with Samsung for AI-Guided Ultrasound
What You Should Know: - EchoNous, a company delivering AI-enabled handheld ultrasound capable of producing diagnostic-quality images, forms an alliance with Samsung that enables its Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Kosmos platform run on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Pro tablets (models 12.0 and higher). - Made possible through the EchoNous/Samsung alliance, this new compatibility will lower the overall price point of the Kosmos platform, which already costs tens of thousands of dollars less than
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