Coronary angiography is the primary procedure for diagnosis and management decisions in coronary artery disease (CAD), but ad-hoc visual assessment of angiograms has high variability. Here we report a fully automated approach to interpret…
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Earlier this year, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy described the worsening mental health symptoms among the country’s youth as the “defining public health crisis of our time.” On Tuesday, investors poured $13 million into…
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About one in every four male deaths is related to heart disease, making it the leading cause of death for men in the U.S. One company is looking to alleviate the situation.
San Francisco-based Hims…
Zocdoc is on a mission to connect with all electronic health record (EHR) and practice management system (PMS) vendors that have a significant market share, CEO Oliver Kharraz said in a recent interview.
His company…
Hybrid value-based behavioral healthcare provider, Octave, announced it scored $52 million in Series C funding, bringing its total raise to $86 million. Cigna Ventures, Novo Holdings and Avidity Partners led the round with participation from…
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University of California, San Francisco has appointed Julia Adler-Milstein, director of the UCSF Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research, to lead its new Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation.WHY IT MATTERSProfessor Adler-Milstein…
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Uber Health is jumping on the food-as-medicine train. The company is adding grocery and over-the-counter delivery services to its platform, it announced Tuesday.
San Francisco-based Uber Health is the healthcare arm of transportation company Uber….
Musculoskeletal conditions impact more than half of adults in the U.S., and is the second highest driver of costs for employers. A new partnership aims to address this.
Last week, virtual health provider Transcarent announced…
Combining AI-powered image analysis with image-based risk scoring has demonstrated the ability to predict long-term breast cancer risk, according to a new study from the Mayo Clinic and the University of California, San Francisco.WHY…
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Cutting-edge research from Mayo Clinic and UCSF demonstrates that combining artificial intelligence (AI) imaging with volumetric breast density algorithms can accurately predict the long-term risk of invasive breast cancers. The study compared traditional assessment…
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