Healthcare IT Infrastructure News for IT pros in the Healthcare Industry

Philips Cloud Medical Imaging Platform Utilizes AWS for AI Development

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Royal Philips revealed plans to offer its HealthSuite Imaging PACS (picture archiving and communication system) through Amazon Web Services (AWS). This move utilizes Amazon HealthLake Imaging to automate storage, access, and analysis of imaging data in the cloud, enhancing the platform with AI development. “With healthcare systems under...

Northwell Health Unveils Partnership to Pilot Wellness Products

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New York City-based Northwell Health and technology distributor Digital Gadgets have announced a collaboration agreement to pilot a line of Northwell-branded innovative wellness products. "Launching a wellness product line that will reach consumers across the country exemplifies Northwell's commitment to community health and our belief that...

CipherHealth Partnership Enables SDOH Data Integration with Google Cloud

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CipherHealth has announced a partnership with Google Cloud partner SADA to enable social determinant of health (SDOH) data integration in an effort to improve patient care. "SADA, together with Google Cloud, has enabled us to provide our customers with new insights into their patient populations, giving them the power to make appropriate care...

Fujifilm Signs Agreement to Acquire Digital Pathology Technology Assets

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Fujifilm corporation has announced its execution of an asset purchase agreement under which the company will acquire the digital pathology technology assets of Inspirata. As part of the acquisition, the digital pathology offerings, customers, and employees of Inspirata will integrate with Fujifilm at closing. According to the press release, this...

Helix, CDC Expand Partnership to Advance Viral Surveillance Program

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and viral surveillance company Helix have formed a partnership to build a pan-respiratory viral surveillance program to improve the nation’s preparedness for the next public health emergency. "The devastating impact of COVID-19 has highlighted the critical importance of preparing for novel...

Hartford Healthcare Partnership Focuses on Digital Health Innovation

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Hartford HealthCare (HHC) and venture capital firm Connecticut Innovations (CI) signed a collaboration agreement to advance digital health innovation for 20 new startups throughout Connecticut. The agreement reinforces an existing relationship between the two organizations and will allow each partner to identify and invest in companies developing...

Nuvance Health Pilots At-Home Remote Patient Monitoring Program

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Nuvance Health is piloting a comprehensive care-at-home program that will provide remote patient monitoring technology to patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). MCI is an early stage of memory loss or cognition ability loss, where affected people struggle with mental abilities such as language and thinking, Nuvance Health stated. According...

NIH Grant Funds Machine Learning Tool for Chronic Disease Detection

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Digital health vendor Eko received a $2.7 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Direct Phase II grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), funding a machine learning algorithm that will improve chronic disease detection.  Eko said the algorithm detects and stratifies pulmonary hypertension (PH) by using phonocardiogram...

St. Louis Startup Secures $6M to Advance Medical Research

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CuriMeta, a St. Louis-based startup, raised $6 million in series seed round funding to close medical research gaps and accelerate health-related interventions. Washington University and BJC HealthCare, which also led the series seed Funding round, have formed a partnership with CuriMeta, the press release stated. As part of their collaboration,...

GE Healthcare Unveils RPM Solution to Detect Patient Deterioration

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GE Healthcare recently announced the introduction of its newest remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology, Portrait Mobile, which uses wearable wireless sensors to help clinicians detect patient deterioration earlier than traditional methods.  Using RPM technology for early detection of patient deterioration may reduce length of stay and...

BD Collaborates with Mayo Clinic for De-Identified Patient Data Access

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BD (Becton, Dickinson, and Company) recently announced a new partnership with Mayo Clinic, gaining the health IT vendor access to de-identified patient data from Mayo Clinic Platform_Discover to develop medical devices that meet patient needs. The Mayo Clinic Platform_Discover, a product of Mayo Clinic Platform, holds robust de-identified data...

Mount Sinai Launches Technology Fund to Promote Healthcare Innovation

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Mount Sinai Innovation Partners (MSIP), a commercialization arm of the Mount Sinai Health System, recently unveiled i3 Prism, an early-stage technology fund promoting healthcare innovation among women and Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). The fund was launched by MSIP, in collaboration with the Diversity and Innovation Hub, Mount...

Intel Invests $100K to Enhance Remote Patient Safety Monitoring

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Intermountain Healthcare has been awarded $100,000 by Intel to enhance remote patient safety monitoring throughout its facilities in Utah, the healthcare system announced. The Intel grant will help fund the purchase of 70 new camera systems, supporting the Intermountain Patient Safety Monitoring (PSM) program. “At Intermountain, we strive to...

Zephyr AI Raises $18.5M to Advance Precision Medicine, Drug Discovery

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Zephyr AI, a health IT startup, landed $18.5 million in seed round funding to advance precision medicine and drug discovery through machine learning and extensive data sets. The $18.5 million round was led by Lerner Group Investments LLC and M-Cor Holdings, with participants from Allen Y Chao, AME Cloud...

Microsoft Completes Nuance Acquisition to Enhance Healthcare AI

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Microsoft recently announced it completed the acquisition of Nuance Communication, a speech recognition company and leading provider of conversational artificial intelligence to enhance healthcare artificial intelligence. “Completion of this significant and strategic acquisition brings together Nuance’s best-in-class conversational AI...

Accenture, Microsoft Will Assist Health System with Cloud Migration

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The largest academic medical system in New York, Mount Sinai Health System, announced Accenture and Microsoft would assist it on a five-year cloud migration process to ensure a fast and smooth transition. Moving to the cloud will allow the healthcare system to reinvest cost-savings and focus on its healthcare mission, Mount Sinai stated. “We...

Healthcare Execs Raise Concern Over Inaccurate Patient Data

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In 2022, healthcare executives are most concerned about inaccurate patient data holding them back from providing quality patient care and a positive patient experience, according to a new survey published by Verato and Sage Growth Partners. By surveying 100 healthcare executives, researchers found that nearly 72 percent of respondents are concerned...

Thermo Fisher Machine Learning Deal to Boost Clinical Trials

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Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced a partnership with a life science artificial intelligence company, Medidata Acorn AI, that aims to enhance clinical trials for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The collaboration between the PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher and Medidata was to develop PPD TrueCast. This enterprise...

Highmark, Bosch Announce AI Pediatric Asthma Research Collaboration

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Highmark Health and Bosch have announced a research partnership that will explore the use of innovative sensor technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to detect pediatric pulmonary conditions, such as asthma. The collaboration builds upon an age-old practice in healthcare; when doctors put a stethoscope to a patient's chest, they can hear...

CVS and Microsoft Announce Digital Health Partnership, AI, Cloud

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CVS Health and Microsoft have announced a collaboration that aims to accelerate the digital health transformation through artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing. Since the start of COVID-19, healthcare organizations have had to adapt quickly to the changing healthcare ecosystem. According to an Economist Intelligence Unit study...