While clinical collaboration platforms have already made a significant impact, there is still much work to be done to ensure that every hospital has the tools and protocols in place to respond to sepsis with the urgency it demands.
While VBC opens the door to new care models, they alone cannot solve another key driver of healthcare costs: many people are diagnosed late in their disease progression when care costs are higher.
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
RapidAI recently closed a $75 million Series C funding round led by Vista Credit Partners. The company offers an AI platform that helps hospital care teams triage and treat stroke patients more quickly.
Medical robotics startup Noah Medical recently closed a $150 million Series B funding round. The company's robotic platform, called the Galaxy System, was designed to help physicians find, biopsy and diagnose lung cancer lesions with more ease and confidence.
Together, the Tennessee-based health system and health technology company will develop solutions to help clinicians detect diseases faster. The new agreement builds on an existing partnership that focuses on earlier diagnoses for lung cancer.
AI tools for automating malaria detection, improving stroke care and predicting suicide risk are among the technologies Partners believes have the greatest potential to impact healthcare in the next year.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
The report from Coverys analyzed 10,618 closed medical professional liability claims from 2013 to 2017. Diagnosis-related errors and failures make up 33 percent of all claims and 47 percent of indemnity payments.
The latest report from Accenture, which claims the health AI market will hit $6.6 billion by 2021, also highlights which AI applications will have the biggest near-term impact in healthcare.
Medical technology is great, but overused. Information technology, especially data, is underused, in the opinion of Dr. Leana Wen, health commissioner for the City of Baltimore, said at CHIME15.
One person who is anxiously awaiting the new IOM volume is Dr. Carol Gunn, an occupational-medicine physician and patient-safety advocate in Portland, Oregon.
Executives from Imagine360, Verily, BrightInsight, Lantern, and Rhapsody shared their approaches to reducing healthcare costs and facilitating digital transformation.
"Going in with the data certainly reduced my stay by a couple of days," Ken Robson told MedCity News. It also assured that he could have a pacemaker implanted nearly immediately.
Dr. Eric Topol, chief academic officer of Scripps Health in San Diego and director of the Scripps Translational Research Institute, is creating yet another buzz on Twitter with a post about patient-generated data from an Apple Watch.
Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT have formed a $3 million strategic alliance in an attempt to address three “major challenges” that persist in healthcare: improving diagnoses, developing new approaches to prevent and treat infectious diseases and developing more accurate methods of diagnosing and treating neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases. The alliance, officials said, will add further […]
Manhattan-based neurodiagnostics company Oculogica is developing eye-tracking technology to help with early diagnosis of concussions and other forms of traumatic brain injury. The company’s still working on a prototype device as it conducts early studies, but feels that it’ll eventually be able to provide a point-of-care solution for the recently concussed. Concussions are a hot-button topic these days, […]
An article by Chen et al., published recently in the journal Cell, offers us what Eric Topol has already dubbed “panor-omic” insight into a potential future — one in which our genomic data can be cross-correlated against other “omic” data (including transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and autoantibody profiles) to give individualized insights into our current clinical […]