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RTLS & AI: Solving the Riddle of Healthcare InefficiencyHealthcare IT Today - (Friday February 17, 2023) - AI/ Daily Reads/ Healthcare IT Today | |
 | The following is a guest article by Steven Manifold, CMO at Ubisense. Many healthcare systems around the world are overburdened. Some face the lingering effects of COVID-19, while others lack funding and staff. Healthcare providers are increasingly turning to technology to help shoulder these burdens, but are fancy tech deployments really the cure or just another placebo? RTLS RTLS (Real-time Location Systems) are not new technologies, but they remain uncommon in most healthcare settings. Popular in automotive, aerospace, and general manufacturing and logistics industries, they have paved the way towards smarter, more efficient industrial practices while contributing to the much vaulted “Industry 4.0” revolution....
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News 2/17/23HIStalk - (Friday February 17, 2023) - AI/ Daily Reads/ HIStalk | |
 | Top NewsUnified communications and collaboration services vendor Avaya, whose healthcare offerings include solutions for virtual care, collaboration, and patient access technology, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time in six years. The Durham, NC-based company reported lower than expected revenue and earnings last year, blaming accounting problems with its cloud subscription revenue, after which it replaced its CEO. AVYA share price has dropped 98% in the past 12 months, valuing the company at $24 million.Reader Comments From Baby Payer: “Re: IVF coverage. In an example of our messed up healthcare system, women are taking Amazon jobs and quitting after...
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Health Transformation Alliance Teams up With Cognoa for Autism Diagnostic DeviceMedCity News - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | The Health Transformation Alliance (HTA), a group of nearly 60 large employers, announced Thursday it is partnering with pediatric behavioral health company Cognoa for its diagnostic device for autism. HTA is a cooperative of self-insured employers, including Walgreens, CocaCola, Verizon and American Express. Palo Alto, California-based Cognoa, meanwhile, is a developer of AI-based technologies for early diagnosis of children with developmental and behavioral health conditions. Its Canvas Dx product is authorized by the Food and Drug Administration and assists healthcare providers in diagnosing autism spectrum disorder for children ages 18 months through 72 months. The product is the first of its sort...
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Cell Therapy Biotech Talaris Ends Two Kidney Transplant Trials, RestructuresMedCity News - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | Talaris Therapeutics aimed to transform solid organ transplants with a cell therapy that replaces anti-rejection drugs patients need for the rest of their lives. But after clinical trial setbacks, the biotech has decided to end two kidney transplant studies. Although a separate test of its experimental therapy is continuing in a rare autoimmune condition, Talaris has commenced a restructuring plan that it said could culminate in a merger or sale of the company. The restructuring announced Thursday will lead to the layoff of about one-third of Talaris’s staff. As of the end of the third quarter of 2022, the Louisville, Kentucky-based biotech...
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Q/A: Oatmeal Health Co-Founder Talks AI-Enabled Cancer Screening for the UnderservedHIT Consultant - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - AI/ Frequent Updates/ HIT Consultant | |
 | Dr. Ty Vachon, CEO & Co-Founder at Oatmeal HealthToday, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Sadly, cancer disparities exist, with racial/ethnic minority, low-income, and uninsured populations suffering the greatest burden. That’s why routine cancer screening is critical to addressing cancer disparities as they have the potential to greatly reduce both incidence and mortality rates. To address this, Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) are funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration to provide preventive and primary healthcare services, including cancer screening, to the nation’s most vulnerable populations We recently sat down with Oatmeal Health’s Co-Founder and...
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Retail disruptors face big strategy questions in 2023, says AHAMobiHealthNews - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - AI/ Frequent Updates/ MobiHealthNews | |
 | A new report from the American Hospital Association Center for Health Innovation explores how retail companies and tech giants like Apple and Google will drive transformational change in healthcare delivery in 2023 and beyond.WHY IT MATTERS With billions of dollars invested this past year, such as CVS Health's purchase of Signify Health, the AHA report highlights retail healthcare companies having grabbed significant market share in primary care, concierge medicine, virtual care and in-home medical services. They've also broadened their reach into pharmacy benefits management, behavioral health and other areas, said AHA researchers in the report. One example is Amazon. While the company is in the process of buying...
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Digital MSK startup IncludeHealth scores $11M and more digital health fundingsMobiHealthNews - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MobiHealthNews | |
 | Digital musculoskeletal (MSK) health company IncludeHealth announced it had raised $11 million in a funding round led by CincyTech with participation from Tamarind Hill and other investors.The company said it would use the funds to expand MSK-OS, its virtual care platform for delivering musculoskeletal care and physical therapy. Late last year, IncludeHealth announced a partnership with Yale New Haven Health System to offer a hybrid MSK care model for the system's patients using the platform. In addition to the funding round, the startup said it had hired Ray Shealy as COO and added Grant Koster, who served as senior vice president of...
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3 Conditions that Must be Met to Make Interoperability a RealityMedCity News - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ MedCity News | |
 | The term “interoperability” holds different meanings for different people. While we all would agree that the primary goal of interoperability is to make sharing data easier in order to improve outcomes and lower costs, there are varying perceptions about what that looks like. FHIR has been great at giving us a common set of protocols and standards to work from, but how we connect and how data actually gets shared are still open challenges. In a truly interoperable healthcare ecosystem, I strongly believe data wouldn’t need to be requested, aggregated, and validated each time it’s needed. And it wouldn’t be limited to specific...
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Ingestible Sensor Reveals Gastric MotilityMedgadget - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - Daily Reads/ Medgadget | |
 | Researchers at MIT have developed an ingestible sensor that can reveal gastrointestinal motility issues, such as gastroparesis and gastroesophageal reflux disease. The technology is intended for use as an easy at-home method to diagnose such issues, which typically require more invasive and inconvenient procedures, such as endoscopy or X-ray imaging. This new technology is based on the concept that a magnetic field produced by an electromagnetic coil becomes weaker the further away you move from the coil. This change in field signal is predictable, allowing researchers to calculate the distance accurately by measuring the magnetic field. The ingestible sensor measures [...]...
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Elation Health Acquires Lightning MD to Build Primary Care All-in-One SolutionHIT Consultant - (Thursday February 16, 2023) - Frequent Updates/ HIT Consultant | |
 | What You Should Know:– Primary care EHR Elation Health acquires cloud-based medical billing and payer connectivity provider Lightning MD, a platform that was created by nurses. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.The acquisition is part of Elation Health’s bid to be a one-stop shop for all primary care — something that co-founder and CEO Kyna Fong, Ph.D., has been driving despite all the odds.As part of the acquisition, Elation will continue to support practices integrated with over 20 practice management and billing solutions connected via the Elation application programming interface (API).Lightning MDFounded in 2017 by registered nurses Kelly Schoenfeld and...
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