Vytalize Health raises $50 million to expand senior care | Lack of diverse datasets in AI puts patients at risk

Vytalize Health, a value-based care platform for seniors, has raised $50 million from investors in a Series B funding round.

The American Medical Association (AMA) has named Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, MAS, as its next editor for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and JAMA Network.

The Society for Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging expressed "strong opposition" following CMS' decision, arguing there is no evidence to support limiting pay for such scans. 

In the study, MRI scans were responsible for 70% of neuroimaging spending, despite accounting for only 25% of completed exams.

Sean Pokorney, MD, director of the arrhythmia core lab, Duke Clinical Research Institute, assistant professor of Medicine, Duke University, discusses a late-breaking ACC 2022 study that shows mortality is higher in patients with implantable electrophysiology (EP) device infections where the leads are not explanted.

Homogenous datasets can create unintended research bias that hinders the clinical efficacy of AI applications, experts recently explained in PLOS Digital Health.

The imaging group has reportedly applied for leniency with the antitrust division, cooperating with the DOJ in exchange for avoiding prosecution. 

The downward trend in annual mammography adherence should serve as a call to action for new processes to engage breast cancer survivors, physicians urged.

Now valued at $1.2B, the San Francisco startup was co-founded by a neurosurgeon and offers a suite of solutions for diagnosing diseases from medical images. 

The agency has maintained the same pay restrictions in its final policy, only covering PET scans if required by a clinical trial protocol. 

ChestLink reports on chest X-rays of the upper body that contain no abnormalities and will launch in clinical settings in early 2023.

Hackensack University Medical Center launched an innovative screening program that screens individuals who are at high-risk for developing familial or hereditary pancreatic cancer. 

Advocate Aurora Enterprises, the investment arm of Wisconsin- and Illinois-based health system Aurora Advocate, has acquired remote patient monitoring provider MobileHelp. 

Virtual behavioral health company Brightline has raised $105 million in a Series C funding round, with the aim of expanding its services and partnerships.