Health Equity: Searching for a New Angle
In Disney’s Big Hero 6, the protagonist, Hiro Hamada, will get stuck in a problem after working on it for a while because he’s becoming too set in his way of thinking. And he is…
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Lucem Health Secures $7.7M for Agnostic AI-Powered Platform
What You Should Know:Lucem Health, a Mayo Clinic Platform portfolio company, has closed a Series A venture capital funding round of $7.7M led by Mayo Clinic, Granger Management and Mercy (St Louis).Lucem Health helps clinical…
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Healthcare AI News 5/10/23
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AI-powered drug discovery could represent a $50 billion opportunity for big pharma according to a Bloomberg article, which notes that one drug company paid $4 billion for drug that was developed by a startup…
Chest Wearable Provides Key Heart Measurements
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a new chest wearable that can obtain both electrocardiogram and seismocardiogram data from the underlying heart. While basic ECG can be monitored via smart…
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HIMSS23 Europe Heads to Lisbon
Join us for #HIMSS23Europe in Lisbon: https://bit.ly/3O68sxc.The European healthcare community is gathering at the HIMSS European Health Conference & Exhibition in Lisbon, Portugal from 7 to 9 June 2023. Featuring knowledge, expertise and thought…
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Capsule Delivers Electrical Current to Stomach for Appetite
Researchers at MIT have developed an ‘electroceutical’ capsule that is designed to be swallowed and which will deliver a small electrical current to the stomach wall. The device contains an external electrode that wraps…
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Augusta University Health saves $1.1M with home-based virtual care
Augusta University Health launched its Virtual Care at Home program in February 2021 as a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Like hospitals across the nation, it was limited on bed capacity and had…
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World cyber security leaders form council to tackle healthcare challenges
World leaders in cyber security have come together to form an Advisory Council to share insight and drive innovation to help tackle the many security challenges facing the rapidly digitalising healthcare sector.The council has…
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Transformative Tech: Enhancing Healthcare Outcomes for All
The following is a guest article by Patrick Tarnowski, Chief Commercial Officer at OneStep
As many as 91% of patients who could benefit from physical therapy (PT) do not access care, and of those who…
NextGen sued in federal court after data breach
A new lawsuit against NextGen Healthcare filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia is class status following exposure of consumer information including social security numbers, names, dates of birth and…
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