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Microsoft Azure Forms Collaboration to Enhance AI in Healthcare

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Microsoft Azure, UC San Francisco’s Center for Digital Health Innovation (CDHI), Fortanix, and Intel recently collaborated to establish a confidential computing platform to boost artificial...

AI-Based CT Scans Can Distinguish COVID-19 Cases from Influenza

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A University of Central Florida researcher is part of a new study, which found that artificial intelligence can detect COVID-19 in the lungs like a virtual physician.  Because COVID-19 looks...

ONC Awards $2.7M to Projects to Advancing Healthcare Data Sharing

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The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently announced four awards totaling over $2.7 million to projects addressing the greatest healthcare data sharing...

More States Launch COVID-19 App Using Apple, Google Framework

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Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced that Washington and Oregon will join California in piloting a project to test promising exposure notification technology pioneered by Google and...

Integrating Digital Health into Clinical Workflows After COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital healthcare and although consumers are interested in virtual services, concerns over privacy, security, and trust still remain, according to...

3D Digital Models Aid COVID-19 Diagnosis

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LSU Health New Orleans radiologists and anatomists recently teamed up to demonstrate that 3D digital models may be a better tool to visually evaluate COVID-19. In a paper published in BMJ Case...

NIH Leverages AI in Medical Imaging Center for COVID-19 Treatment

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently launched a medical imaging center, which leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to fight COVID-19. The center, called the Medical Imaging and Data...

Virginia Rolls Out Contact-Tracing App for COVID-19 Exposure

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Virginia recently launched a contact-tracing app to notify individuals if they were exposed to the coronavirus, becoming the first state in the US to use the Apple-Google COVID-19 exposure technology...

US Dept of Energy Releases Plans for Quantum Internet Development

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The University of Chicago and the US Department of Energy (DOE) recently unveiled a blueprint strategy for the development of a national quantum internet. A quantum internet is essentially a platform...

Artificial Intelligence Enhances Cervical Cancer Screenings

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A computer algorithm that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to automate dual-stain (DS) evaluation improved the accuracy and efficiency of cervical cancer screening compared with Pap cytology,...

Medicaid Needs Health IT Infrastructure Update for Enrollment Bump

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Although the COVID-19 pandemic exposed many of the weaknesses in the healthcare system, one of the most prominent weakness that has affected the country is antiquated health IT infrastructure in the...

Diagnostic Robotics, Mayo Clinic Bring Triage Platform to Patients

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Diagnostic Robotics recently announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to implement its artificial intelligence-driven prediction and digital triage platform. The platform will supplement the...

NIH to Collect Patient Data with New COVID-19 Analytics Platform

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently launched a new COVID-19 analytics platform that will provided a centralized, secure enclave to analyze medical record data from coronavirus patients to...

Quick Response Codes on Casts Improve Adherence to Care Plan

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A new study released as part of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Virtual Education Experience, found that quick response (QR) codes may be an effective method to relay follow-up...

Change Healthcare Taps Adobe, Microsoft for Patient Experience Tech

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Change Healthcare recently unveiled a new suite of patient experience technology developed with the help of Adobe and Microsoft. In a recent press release, Change Healthcare announce the ...

Artificial Intelligence Helps Detect Early COVID-19 Symptoms

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The West Virginia Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) and WVU Medicine, along with Oura Health, are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to detect COVID-19 symptoms nearly three days before...

SADA Launches Data Sharing Portal to Aid in COVID-19 Recovery

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SADA recently announced the official launch of the National Response Portal (NRP), which is designed to boost efficient data sharing among healthcare providers and policymakers during the COVID-19...

AVIA Opens COVID-19 Platform to All Healthcare Organizations

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AVIA recently announced the opening of its COVID-19 Resource Hub to all US hospitals US, designed to provide digital health communities and resources. Through its new partnerships with the American...

Artificial Intelligence Algorithm Identifies COVID-19 in CT Scans

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Researchers at Mount Sinai are the first in the country to use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect COVID-19 in patients based on CT scans of the chest combined with clinical data, according to a...

How EHRs Are Leveraging Artificial Intelligence Capabilities

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Artificial intelligence capabilities are still evolving, but AI is a beneficial option for EHR customers who are prepared to operationalize models and drive outcomes themselves, according to a KLAS...