Health IT

Healthcare information (HIT) systems are designed to connect all the elements together for patient data, reports, medical imaging, billing, electronic medical record (EMR), hospital information system (HIS), PACS, cardiology information systems (CVIS)enterprise image systemsartificial intelligence (AI) applications, analytics, patient monitors, remote monitoring systems, inventory management, the hospital internet of things (IOT), cloud or onsite archive/storage, and cybersecurity.

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Psychiatry turns to AI for new help with an old problem

AI is poised to help settle an argument that’s been roiling academic psychiatry for more than a century: Are bipolar disorder and schizophrenia two distinct diagnoses—or points along a single continuum?

May 18, 2021
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Screws tighten on lung cancer with cross-field AI analytics

Deep neural networks are capable of tying oncological findings from genetic testing with those from medical imaging and biopsy analysis to not only validate previously discovered connections among and between the three fields but also uncover new ones.  

May 10, 2021

Pandemic has opened doors for telehealth, but security concerns could narrow the space

More than half of Americans, 54%, have seen doctors remotely during the COVID crisis. However, some 48% might not touch telehealth again if their data were to get hacked during a telehealth-related breach.

August 19, 2020
Analytics

Employer-sponsored healthcare operator beefing up COVID measures with partner’s predictive analytics

A company offering healthcare and wellness services to its clients’ employees is partnering with a neighboring company specialized in predictive data analytics to blunt the impact of COVID-19 on those same employees.

April 29, 2020
Money

Google venture arm leads $100M investment in analytics co.

The venture fund arm of Google parent company Alphabet led a $100 million funding round into for clinical data analytics company Verana Health.

February 5, 2020

AI analytics company raises $10M

CLEW, a Netanya, Israel-based healthcare technology company, announced that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding.

January 15, 2020

Mayo Clinic launches new data analytics platform

Mayo Clinic, the Rochester, Minn.-based nonprofit healthcare organization, has launched the Clinical Data Analytics Platform that will use deidentified data and scientific literature to improve patient health.

January 14, 2020
Customized dashboards are helping health systems, hospitals and practices realize improvements in quality and cost of care.

Cigna using AI, analytics to monitor patient health

One of the world’s largest insurance providers is now using AI and data analytics to monitor patient data, deliver personalized messages and update electronic medical records for physicians.

December 16, 2019

Around the web

This week Washington took a major step toward nailing down a solid game plan on federal AI spending for everything outside of defense.

The recall includes specific lots of five different medical devices used to treat stroke and other neurovascular diseases.

The agency is urging healthcare providers to transition away from these devices and seek out alternatives. It is even working with other manufacturers to try and get similar products on the market as quickly as possible. 

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