Background: The adoption of digital health care within health systems is determined by various factors, including pricing and reimbursement. The reimbursement landscape for digital health in Europe remains underresearched. Although various emergency reimbursement decisions…
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Former head of NHS digital policy Matthew Gould has been appointed to the advisory board of leading UK data technology company Quantexa, one of the remaining bidders for the NHS’ £480m federated data platform.Gould,…
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Digital technologies change the healthcare environment, with several studies suggesting barriers and facilitators to using digital interventions by healthcare professionals (HPs). We consolidated the evidence from existing systematic reviews mentioning barriers and facilitators for…
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Pitango Venture Capital, one of the largest venture capital firms in Israel, announced on Wednesday the closing of a new $175 million healthcare fund.
The fund, named Pitango HealthTech II, is a sequel to Pitango’s…
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Google Chief Health Officer Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc says in NEJM Catalyst that large language models will give patients “a more personalized and anticipatory experience” and that medicine needs to change to meet…
LumaFlo, a medtech company based in Israel, has developed a decontamination technology that does not require UV light, something that can be dangerous for people nearby. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for safe…
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Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) expresses concerns to Google officials that hospitals are testing the company’s Med-PaLM 2 large language model. He asks specifically whether the LLM memorizes the full set of a patient’s data,…
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What You Should Know:
– Sheba Medical Center, Israel’s largest medical center, today announced the deployment of a new accelerated, AI-powered cancer diagnostics research platform that can shorten diagnostic time from three weeks to minutes.
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What You Should Know:
Ichilov Hospital, Israel’s largest acute-care facility Tel Aviv launches an AI-based triage pilot integration in its Sourasky Medical Center Emergency Department with Kahun, an evidence-based clinical reasoning tool for physicians.This integration…
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What You Should Know: The Israel Innovation Authority announced today a NIS 113M ($31M USD) investment for the establishment of a center that will provide research and development (R&D) infrastructure for bio-devices based on…
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