Nvidia unveiled new tools designed to make it easier for hospitals to integrate AI models related to medical imaging into their clinical workflows. The tools have been adopted by major cloud infrastructure providers, as well as healthcare providers and AI software companies. Some of these include Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, University of California San Francisco, England’s National Health Service and Qure.ai.
The low-income patient populations who bear disproportionate disease burdens are the same populations who are most likely to face barriers in health technology use, according to Courtney Lyles co-founder of S.O.L.V.E. Health Tech, UCSF’s health equity accelerator. The program she co-founded seeks to address this problem by conducting research with digital health startups about how their products can better serve low-income patients.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
UCSF's interactive data platform allows users to drill down into 150 social determinants of health variables. This data, layered with EHR data, can give researchers and clinicians invaluable insights into the nexus of social factors and health.
A panel at the WSGR Medical Device Conference in San Francisco delved into the specifics around what oftentimes sinks the relationship between companies and colleges and how to create real alignment and understanding between the two stakeholders.
If Cardiogram's technology highlights a potential issue of atrial fibrillation or diabetes, patients will be given free access to what the company calls a "gold standard" diagnostic test to confirm the results.
Patients across the entire University of California Health network are now being given the ability to download their medical data onto their Apple smartphones.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
The two San Francisco-based entities have collaborated to create a digital platform aimed at helping patients navigate their care journey and connect with providers.
In a blog post, three individuals from UCSF's Center for Digital Health Innovation advocate for calling EHRs "connected health records," a term that is more focused on interoperability and allowing a patient's entire care team to interact and update information.
Cardiogram's study with University of California San Francisco recruited 14,011 participants who access the Cardiogram app through Apple Watch or Android smartwear.
The UCSF-led I-Spy trial is a public-private partnership, which includes the NIH, FDA and pharma companies, and is working to match breast cancer patients with the most effective drugs and rapidly amass evidence to get those drugs (agents) approved.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
By working with academic partners like Johns Hopkins Medicine, Walgreens has launched the center, which contains a plethora of studies on topics ranging from digital health to HIV.
The San Francisco Cancer Initiative, for example, is about sharing information for what works and what doesn’t work for five types of cancer: prostate, breast, liver, colorectal and tobacco-related cancers.
The rate of repeated emergency room visits declined by 24 percent, on average, in the first year after caregivers were trained and 41 percent in the second year, according to the report.
It plans to bring its idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis small molecule to the clinic in the next two years.
"In the last five years, we have gone from a primarily analog business to a primarily digital business," Dr. Robert Wachter said at AMIA 2015.