Sunday, September 8, 2024
Jefferson Radiology in Connecticut has announced the introduction of Aidoc tech across its outpatient centers and hospital partnerships, with the aim of enhancing sub-specialized care and improving healthcare outcomes. Aidoc software is said to use “advanced” AI algorithms to support radiologists in diagnosing and prioritising CT scan cases. These algorithms […]
Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic has announced the launch of Solutions Studio, a new programme forming part of Mayo Clinic Platform designed to accelerate the development, validation and deployment of digital health solutions and ultimately integrate them into healthcare workflows. The studio will offer “clean, curated” and de-identified data from global regions […]
German science and technology company Merck has established its first digital hub in Singapore with the aim of supporting advancements within healthcare. The hub is supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), with the EDB’s senior vice president and head of healthcare Wan Yee Goh sharing hopes that the […]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have announced the launch of the new Cancer Screening Research Network which will focus on evaluating emerging technologies for cancer screening, and shared plans to launch a pilot study to establish “the feasibility of using multi-cancer detection tests in future randomized controlled trials”. This […]
Yesterday (4 February) integrated health delivery system Northern Light Health in Maine, USA, reported that patient record systems have been taken offline as of Saturday 3 February, as monitoring systems indicated that a number of computer services had become compromised. Northern Light Health states that whilst none of the affected […]
We recently sat down for a chat with Ricardo Baptista Leite about the potential and considerations for artificial intelligence, key learnings from his career and his thoughts on the digital health landscape in Portugal. Along with his background as a medical doctor, Ricardo has experience in a number of settings […]
My Home Hospital, a South Australian service offering treatment for patients in Adelaide as well as the regions around Gawler, Mount Barker, and the Southern Fleurieu, has delivered care to 10,000 patients, with patients sharing that the service “made such a difference”. Delivered by Calvary and Amplar Health, the service […]
Whilst at Web Summit, we met up with John Klepper, co-founder and CEO of PIPRA (Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk Assessment), a Zurich-based medtech company that has developed its first product; an AI-based surgical tool to assess a patients’ risk of suffering from postoperative delirium. Hi John! Thanks for meeting us. Can […]
A journal published in eClinicalMedicine, part of The Lancet Discovery Science, has explored digital exclusion and functional dependence in older populations in high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Authors performed a multi-cohort study, pooling individual-level data from five longitudinal cohort studies of older adults across 23 countries […]
Medical device company EndoQuest Robotics from Houston, Texas, has announced the successful closure of a $42 million C-1 preferred financing round, with the strategic funding set to help advance its flexible endoluminal robot which is designed to support minimally invasive procedures. The company’s legacy investors CE Ventures Limited and McNair Interests […]
