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IBM Watson Health plans to make a ten-year, $50 million investment in research collaborations with two separate academic centers – Brigham and Women's Hospital, which is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center – to advance the science of artificial intelligence (AI) and its... 14 February 2019
Zynx Health announced the launch of Lumynz, a surveillance and analytics SaaS platform that measures the utilization of evidence-based interventions and the impact on financial outcomes. Lumynz provides an interactive, retrospective analysis of provider orders utilization against evidence-based interventions to enhance outcomes. This analysis highlights how the interventions are... 13 February 2019
Change Healthcare announced free clinical data interoperability services for the healthcare industry. The foundational infrastructure services, namely record locator service, identity management and document retrieval solution with protection of patient privacy, support a comprehensive range of use cases. By providing these services, Change Healthcare is paving the way for... 13 February 2019
Cerner has introduced Chart Assist, a new AI-enabled workflow, to join a suite of solutions designed to reduce physician burnout, enhance the clinician’s experience and increase productivity. Cerner’s suite of AI-enabled solutions goes beyond traditional processing and focuses on user efficiency to identify gaps and inconsistencies within the patient... 13 February 2019
University of Houston and Methodist Hospital researchers are reporting in Nature Scientific Reports that the best way to train surgeons is to remove the stress of residency programs and make surgery a hobby. Under relaxed conditions outside a formal educational setting, 15 first-year medical students, who aspired one day... 13 February 2019
Leidos and Mayo Clinic announced a strategic collaboration. This collaboration will build on the combined strengths of both organizations to accelerate the research, development and market adoption of tools, technologies and therapeutics to make patients and their families more active participants in their care, ultimately helping them live happier,... 12 February 2019
IBM, Aetna, Anthem, Health Care Service Corporation and PNC Bank are working together to design and create a blockchain network to improve transparency and interoperability in the healthcare industry. Blockchain is described as a decentralized ledger of all transactions in a network. Its applications in the healthcare space are... 12 February 2019
More than a dozen healthcare AI companies—including Owkin and Arterys— have been named as top startups in CB Insight’s third annual AI 100 list. This is the second time medical imaging AI company Arterys has been named to the list and the first time for Owkin, an AI medical research company. The... 11 February 2019
VRmagic announced the marketing of a new platform generation of its ophthalmic surgery simulator Eyesi Surgical. In close cooperation with the Swiss company Haag-Streit Diagnostics, the German-based manufacturer has developed a digital microscope head and integrated a new virtual high-resolution stereo microscope in the simulator. For training of retina... 11 February 2019
The latest iteration of this event, the 19th, took place in San Antonio in late January. As the show closed, the organizers announced that membership had increased to 4,200 globally and the current event was the largest on record with 3,146 registered delegates plus 948 exhibit staff. The latter... 8 February 2019
The 3rd Annual VR and Healthcare Symposium, taking place in Tucson, Arizona, from March 7-8, 2019, is the largest global gathering exploring the research, applications and opportunities in virtual, augmented and mixed reality in healthcare. Speakers include: HP, HTC Vive, Samsung, Microsoft, Mayo Clinic, Johnson & Johnson, NIH, Thiel... 8 February 2019
Hodei Technology LLC is partnering with World Housing Solution Inc. and iCoreConnect Inc. to combine its technologies to make available new ADA compliant off-grid portable licensed healthcare facilities (Clinic on Wheels). This new offering will provide an advanced level of connectivity and communication capabilities that offer a continuity of... 8 February 2019
Xavier University of Louisiana and Ochsner Health System teamed up to launch a new Physician Assistant (PA) Program for the inaugural class matriculating in January 2020. The 28-month, full-time graduate program, which leads to a master’s degree in health sciences, is comprised of three semesters of classroom instruction followed... 8 February 2019
HealthcareSource is expanding its learning management suite of education and training resources to include the Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) program and HeartCode Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support eLearning programs. The programs are codeveloped by the American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical and... 7 February 2019
Q1’s 12th Annual Medical Device Clinical Training Conference will be hosted on February 26-27 in Charlotte, North Carolina. This two-day conference allows clinical trainers and education professionals to come together to discuss enhancing training and scheduling approaches, cross-cultural training strategies, identifying budget constraints and more in an interactive setting. 6 February 2019
The Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative and the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education have released the Guidance on Developing Quality Interprofessional Education for the Health Professions. It was developed through a multi-year, multi-phase consensus process aimed at supporting the development and implementation of quality interprofessional education (IPE). The... 6 February 2019
Education Management Solutions (EMS) says the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education has established that high-functioning teams can improve the outcomes, experience and costs of healthcare. And a recent report by the Institute of Medicine also outlines the "positive impact that interprofessional collaboration and teamwork can have on... 5 February 2019
The British Army has awarded a contract to Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) to demonstrate the art of using virtual reality, machine learning and cloud computing for the Army’s Collective Training Transformation Programme (CTTP). The pilot programme has been made available through the Defence Innovation Fund, MOD investment into innovation. 5 February 2019
Following the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s 7th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, Joe Kiani, the founder and chairman of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, continues to encourage more individuals to plan for zero preventative deaths in hospitals by implementing all of its Actionable Patient Safety Solutions... 4 February 2019
3D Systems Healthcare is partnering with the medical device industry to drive the next generation of healthcare products and applications. 3D printing and advanced manufacturing technology can enable new product innovation by accelerating the design process—bringing revolutionary medical devices to the market faster. 3D Systems strives to continuously innovate... 4 February 2019