As the delta variant continues to drive COVID-19 infections, some hospitals are being overwhelmed with patient surges as they try to balance virus cases with incoming emergencies and other care.
Kristin Molina, business leader for patient engagement and healthcare analytics at Philips, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss how predictive analytics and artificial intelligence can help providers...
Net Health, a software and analytics tools developer for specialty healthcare providers, released two AI-powered capabilities within its EHR to reduce the risk of amputations and predict how quickly wounds will heal.
The company’s Risk of Amputation Indicator uses predictive analytics to tell clinicians how likely it is that a wound could lead to an amputation, and the Wound Healing Velocity...
Maven Clinic, a virtual women’s and family healthcare provider, announced Tuesday it raised $110 million in Series D funding, bringing the clinic’s funding total to more than $200 million.
The round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Lux Capital, with participation from BOND, Oprah Winfrey and existing investors Sequoia, Oak HC/FT and Icon Ventures.
Maven said it plans to use the funding...
Ultromics, maker of AI-supported cardiac imaging tools, announced Monday it has raised $33 million in Series B funding.
The funding round was led by Blue Venture Fund, a group of Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and venture capital firm Sandbox. Optum Ventures, GV and existing investor Oxford Sciences Innovation also participated.
The UK-based health tech...
Disruption in healthcare has been a long time coming, and for many organizations, the COVID-19 pandemic acted as the catalyst to adopt innovative technologies.
For instance, even some of the most cutting-edge health systems only had artificial intelligence and machine learning programs for a few years prior to the onset of the pandemic.
“Children’s Hospital of Colorado has a rich history of...
Abbott landed FDA clearance for its imaging software, which employs artificial intelligence to give doctors a clearer look at blood flow and blockages in heart vessels.
The Ultreon 1.0 Software pairs optical coherence tomography with AI to help physicians make decisions about next steps for treatment.
"As cardiologists continue to adopt OCT and move away from traditional imaging methods such as...
Sapio Smart Healthcare, a division of Indian government advisory firm Sapio Analytics, has developed a chatbot that assists patients from rural and remote areas in India.
Based on a press statement, the AKS Sapio Med Bot was designed to understand the "local and personal" concerns of a patient, while assisting them in seeking treatment before getting medical consultations.
The chatbot is named...
Emotional analysis technology developed by software solutions provider Opsis Emotion AI will be piloted over the next two years in a programme targeting more than 4,300 seniors in Singapore.
The programme will see a collaboration between Opsis and social services agency Lions Befrienders (LB). Through the use of Opsis' emotion analysis software, counsellers from LB are expected to be able to...
AI diagnostics startup MediCircle Health has recently introduced in India a rapid spectrometry-based test that employs machine learning and artificial intelligence to detect COVID-19.
WHAT IT DOES
Spectral Instant Test (SpectraLIT) is a point-of-care diagnostic platform that performs spectral analysis to accurately and instantly determine if a spectral pattern of a virus from a nasal or mouthwash...
Pharmacy IT solutions provider Fred IT unveiled on Tuesday a new pharmacy dispensing platform powered by artificial intelligence.
WHAT IT DOES
The company says the Fred Dispense Plus platform is an improvement from the widely used Fred Dispense Australia platform.
Among its features, the Fred AID (Artificial Intelligence Directions) tool uses AI and big data to support clinical and business...