“Telehealth is now a household world,” said American Telemedicine Association President Dr. Joe Kvedar during his keynote address Monday, the first day of the virtual ATA2020 conference. For the past 25 years, Kvedar said he’s been explaining to people what…
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Nuance launches new AI-powered and cloud-based speech recognition solution in the Nordics
Physicians nowadays spend about twice as much time entering or re-entering data into computers than they do interacting with patients, causing what the president of the World Medical Association has called a “pandemic of physician burnout,” with 51% of physicians…
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COVID-19 has accelerated adoption of non-contact patient monitoring technology, says Frost & Sullivan analysis
Contactless monitoring systems and smartphone health applications are playing a vital role in the war against COVID-19, a report has found. According to the analysis by Frost & Sullivan, non-contact patient monitoring technologies are gravitating toward the use of video,…
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Deeper Insights launches COVID-19 research app
UK data analytics and AI specialists Deeper Insights have launched a free research discovery app to keep medical professionals abreast of recent data on COVID-19. The ‘Covid Insights’ app will act as a centralised database for all research papers produced…
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Researchers at Mount Sinai use AI to detect COVID-19 in lung scans
Researchers from New York-based Mount Sinai Health System have combined artificial intelligence, imaging and clinical data to rapidly detect COVID-19 in patients. In a study published this week in Nature Medicine, researchers used AI algorithms in conjunction with chest CT…
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Using machine learning, Immunai plans to map immune system
New York-based startup Immunai launched out of stealth Thursday, announcing its plan to map the immune system and improve diagnosis and treatment of disease. According to the company’s founders, Immunai has already used single-cell technologies and machine learning algorithms to…
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Cerner, AWS partner to make COVID-19 data available to researchers
Healthcare technology company Cerner and Amazon Web Services are teaming up to offer researchers fight the COVID-19 pandemic access to de-identified patient data. WHY IT MATTERS Stored on Cerner’s HealtheDataLab platform, which is hosted on AWS, the de-identified patient data…
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COVIDathon aims to develop open source tools to combat pandemic
Starting April 1st, the Decentralized AI Alliance and partners SingularityNET and Ocean Protocol plan to host an online, not-for-profit hackathon called COVIDathon. The goal is to bring together the decentralized artificial intelligence community in an effort to help find solutions…
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Infermedica introduces Arabic version of AI-driven patient navigation platform
Infermedica is expanding to the Middle East and beyond with a new language version of its diagnostic technology, making its AI-powered symptom checker available to the hundreds of millions of people around the world that speak Arabic. The language will…
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