Category: Frequent Updates
A foundational vision transformer improves diagnostic performance for electrocardiograms
The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a ubiquitous diagnostic modality. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) applied towards ECG analysis require large sample sizes, and transfer learning approaches for biomedical problems may result in suboptimal performance when pre-training…
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Lifebit Trusted Research Environment to accelerate cancer data research
A multi-year strategic partnership between Lifebit and Flatiron will support vital research and enable scientific discoveries, by enabling Flatiron researchers to access real-world data on cancer patients.In order to overcome the issue of data…
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GP2U Telehealth being sold again
Over two years since it was first acquired, GP2U Telehealth is being sold off again.Its parent company, UK-based Doctor Care Anywhere Group, signed a share purchase agreement to sell its Australian subsidiary to My…
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Lunit lends hands to Sweden’s national cancer screening programme
South Korean medical AI company Lunit is helping raise Sweden’s cancer screening capability by partnering with one of the country’s biggest private healthcare providers.It recently signed a three-year agreement with Capio S:t Göran Hospital…
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Australia’s Medical Board to disallow ‘tick and flick’ online prescribing
The Medical Board of Australia, which is responsible for regulating medical practitioners in the country, has made some revisions to its telehealth guidelines.WHAT IT’S ABOUT
A major change in the guidelines discourages the practice of prescribing…
South Korea begins move to make telemedicine permanent
The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare is pushing further to institutionalise telemedicine by launching a nationwide pilot of the service. WHAT IT’S ABOUT
Under the three-month pilot, telemedicine services are only offered when a…
Experts Release New Framework to Evaluate Digital Health Products – MedCity News
A group of healthcare researchers and health system leaders recently proposed a new framework to evaluate evidence for digital health products. The set of guidelines — titled Evidence in Digital health for EFfectiveness of…
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Apple unveils watchOS 10 with new features for mental health, vision health
Apple revealed the latest update of its Watch wearables today, the Apple watchOS 10, which will include new mental health, vision health and fitness tools.The watchOS 10 will allow users to log their emotions…
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INVEST Pitch Perfect Spotlight: How OmniLife Health Is Streamlining Organ Transplants – MedCity News
A motor vehicle accident left Dalton Shaull, co-founder and CEO of OmniLife Health, with a paralyzed arm, which led to a nerve transplant in 2014 that saw him going from “complete paralysis to full…
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