Not Your Average Bra: How Bloomer Tech’s Wearable Is Addressing Heart Disease in Women
MIT spinout Bloomer Tech is developing a wearable electrocardiogram device designed to look and feel like a bra.
Study shows skewed dermatological datasets result in less accurate models
Research conducted by the MIT Media Lab and Scale AI found that lighter skin tones vastly outnumber darker skin tones in the two of the most widely used dermatology atlases. This led to disparities in an AI model’s ability to diagnose skin conditions involving darker skin tones.
Health Executives on Digital Transformation in Healthcare
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Cognito looks to light, sound for potential Alzheimer’s treatment
Digital health startup Cognito shared results of a Phase 2 trial of its device, intended to treat Alzheimer’s disease using gamma frequency light and sound. Based on the results, it plans to launch a pivotal study of the treatment.
Navigating the challenge of covering breakthrough therapies at MedCity INVEST Precision Medicine
A discussion on the different models healthcare stakeholders are developing to cover the cost of costly therapies will be just one of the compelling conversations at the virtual conference from December 9-11. Register today!
Study uses genomic data to trace Covid-19 ‘superspreader’ event linked to February Biogen exec meeting
The study, by researchers at Harvard, MIT, The Broad and other institutions, used genomic analysis of cases linked to the Biogen meeting, linking much of the community transmission in the Boston area to a European genetic variant of SARS-CoV-2 that first appeared at the meeting.
MIT, Berkeley sponsor journal to accelerate peer review of Covid-19 research
The journal, Rapid Reviews: COVID-19, will use artificial intelligence to scour preprint servers for promising research and allow it to be peer reviewed. Preprint studies have proliferated amid the Covid-19 pandemic, raising concerns about misinformation.
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Market Trends to Watch for Health Systems and Their Specialty Pharmacies
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.
MIT researcher alleged to have copied antibody research Otsuka later acquired evaluating potential legal action
In an article published in the journal mAbs Monday, executives from Adimab alleged that MIT's Ram Sasisekharan copied prior monoclonal antibody research. Visterra, a company Sasisekharan founded that had been developing one of the antibodies, was acquired by Otsuka for $430M last year.
A wearable using AI to identify severe seizures and warn caregivers gains FDA approval
By passively collecting seizure data, Empatica's device could help patients share medical information with clinicians and make that data easier to manage.
How to win a healthcare hackathon before it starts (and after it’s over)
Startup evolution is an iterative process - a marathon. A hackathon can serve as a sprinting start. Here's how you win.
Easy Bake Oven meets at-home biological engineering: The Amino kit
Desktop bioengineering could be a new hobby for those interested in growing and maintaining their own cultures.
Heard at HLTH 2024: Insights from Innovative Healthcare Executives
Executives from Imagine360, Verily, BrightInsight, Lantern, and Rhapsody shared their approaches to reducing healthcare costs and facilitating digital transformation.
TARIS pivots and is building bladder cancer drug device combo with $32M round
After selling its lead product to Allergan last year for $587.5 million, TARIS Biomedical has pivoted into developing a bladder cancer drug device combination with a $32 million investment.
Exercise combined with artificial gravity may be the answer to astronaut health problems
MIT engineers are tinkering with exercise equipment and centrifuges to come up with the best way to lower the amount of muscle deterioration for long term residents of the International Space Station .
Five conspicuous omissions from MIT Tech Review’s 50 smartest companies
Isn't Theranos supposed to be a smart company? The MIT Technology Review highlights each year what it considers the world's "smartest companies." Understandably, several have been left out.
New institute refines hackathon concepts for business
The Hacking Medicine Institute is rejiggering hackathon concepts so they're applicable to the business of healthcare. But in some ways, it's the anti-hackathon. "At MIT, we love technology," said Ayesha Khalid, co-founder of the Institute. "But I don't think the solution here is more technology."
MIT launching “HackMed Institute,” bringing hackathon methodology to business
That flurry of innovation found at a hackathon’s tough to replicate in a business environment. Well, MIT’s going to try and change that. At the close of MIT’s healthcare Grand Hack, the organizers announced they’ll be launching “HackMed Institute,” or the Hacking Medicine Institute, with aims to help educate startups and larger private companies in […]