A Day at The Future of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare Conference
At the end of April leaders and innovators from the fields of artificial intelligence and healthcare gathered in Old Street—London’s digital tech hub, affectionately known as “silicon roundabout.” The event was hosted by Innovatemedtec in partnership with Aviva Ventures and brought together participants from academia, industry, and London’s substantial start-up scene.
The day began with a keynote address from Rabin Yaghoubi, Chief Commercial Officer at Babylon Health. Rabin’s team at Babylon created an AI-powered virtual physician app that boasts over 750,000 users worldwide. The keynote introduced a r...
Source: Medgadget - May 10, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tom Peach Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Sympfiny System for Dispensing Multiparticulate Medications
Multiparticulate medications can consist of beads, mini-tablets and microspheres encased in a coating that hides their flavor and prevents them from being dissolved before they reach the stomach. Benefits include the ability to make these medications have just about any flavor, to make them release the drug at a pre-programmed rate, and even release it in regular bursts.
Because these medications are physically quite different than liquid meds, they can be difficult to administer. The multiparticulate microspheres either don’t stick to each other sufficiently or stick too readily, each creating its own problems. Th...
Source: Medgadget - May 10, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Abbott Releases First Insertable Cardiac Monitor That Works with Your Smartphone
Abbott received the European CE Mark and is introducing its Confirm Rx Insertable Cardiac Monitor (ICM). Still sporting St. Jude Medical’s logo, now part of Abbott, the Confirm Rx features wireless Bluetooth connectivity to a paired app on the patient’s smartphone. This allows for transmission of cardiac event data to the patient’s cardiologist from just about anywhere there is cellular connectivity.
Unlike other similar devices, you don’t need a separate transmitter, like the Merlin system that has typically been employed, taking up space near the bed. And you can freely travel without having to ...
Source: Medgadget - May 10, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Cardiology Source Type: blogs
If You Believe This You Will Believe Anything!
A few hours ago the Medical Observer made the key point that we need to consider on the myHR and the 2017 -18 Budget.
What they say is as follows:
5. Yet more cash thrown at My Health RecordMinisters are never shy about funding My Health Record. The government has already poured about $2 billion into its various iterations.
The budget adds a further $380 million over two years as the system enters a planned ‘opt-out’ era.
The government reckons, though, that greater “efficiency” resulting from the system will save some $305 million. There are no details on exactly how. -----
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 10, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
A Legend In The E-Health Space Makes It Clear The myHR is Probably Already Obsolete.
This very long and very informative article appeared last week.http://medicalrepublic.com.au/unfinished-business-frank-pyefinch-story/87894 May 2017Unfinished business – the Frank Pyefinch storyPosted by Jeremy Knibbs Dr Frank Pyefinch, the founder of both MedicalDirector and Best Practice, is the closest thing we have to a founder of Australian digital GP medicine. His story and ideas tell us a lot about how we should be embracing a rapidly unfolding digitally connected world in Australian medicine.--- Vast amount omitted - all interesting ---Fast forward until today and Frank believes that Best Practice is the str...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 10, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Accelerating Decision-Making in Healthcare: How Health Systems Choose Innovative Solutions – #HITsm Chat Topic
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 5/12 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Bruce Brandes from Lucro Solutions on the topic of “Accelerating Decision-Making in Healthcare: How Health Systems Choose Innovative Solutions”.
To be competitive in today’s digital healthcare economy, providers, hospitals and health plans need to leverage existing and emerging products offered by a growing base of vendors. But the healthcare market is saturated with products and services with new vendors entering the market seemingly every day. The pe...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 9, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: #HITsm Healthcare HealthCare IT Precision Medicine #hcldr #HITsm Topics Bruce Brandes Healthcare Leadership Lucro Solutions Source Type: blogs
Former Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin still advocating for holistic approach to community health
She believes prevention is the key to building a more sustainable healthcare system. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - May 9, 2017 Category: Information Technology Tags: Women In Health IT Source Type: blogs
Vulnerable populations have a lot to lose with American Health Care Act
The $8 billion allocations proposed with the AHCA would have to cover the 17.5 million people who could lose coverage with Medicaid cuts. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - May 9, 2017 Category: Information Technology Tags: Clinical Government & amp; Policy Population Health Women In Health IT Source Type: blogs
5 must-have traits to require from your EHR and infrastructure vendors
Customer service, account management and long-term value for the investment are among the key points in developing a good vendor relationship. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog)
Source: Healthcare IT News Blog - May 9, 2017 Category: Information Technology Tags: EHRs Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Network Infrastructure Women In Health IT Workflow Source Type: blogs
Highlights from the Medical Alley Association ’s 2017 Annual Meeting
The Medical Alley Association is a community of organizations that share the noble goal of promoting medical innovation and driving healthcare reform worldwide. More than 600 companies make up the Association, including giants like Medtronic, Mayo Clinic, 3M, and Abbott. The Association was founded in 1984 in Minnesota, a state with a long history of healthcare and medical innovation. Minnesota currently ranks as the number one Health Technology Cluster for innovation in the world.
The Medical Alley Association held their annual meeting on April 27th at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN. Hundreds of representatives fr...
Source: Medgadget - May 9, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Kenan Raddawi Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
This Was The Really Big News Of Last Week In Digital Health. What An Unexpected Outcome - NOT!
This appeared late last week.Evaluation of the My Health Record Participation TrialsPage last updated: 04 May 2017In July 2012, My Health Record (then called Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record) was launched. This is a secure online summary of a person ’s medications, diagnosed illnesses, treatments, allergies and tests. Each person can control what goes onto their My Health Record, and who is allowed to see it. For healthcare providers, knowing more about a patient’s medical history can lead to a better understanding of what is happening, and result in better treatment decisions.
In most parts of Australi...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 9, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Summary Of The Health Budget Changes In The Budget. You Are Stuck With A myHR!
Budget Outcome - 2017-18
HEALTH
The government is set to fully fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme beyond 2019 in Tuesday's Budget.
The Australian reports the NDIS funding will be the centrepiece social policy, set to be revealed when the government outlines its spending plans tonight.
Medicine prices will fall and Medicare rebates for doctor's visits will rise.
Patients will be pushed onto generic versions of their medicine to save the government money.
The price of X-rays and scans could rise with the government poised to abandon an election pledge to index the Medicare rebates for these services.
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 9, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David More MB PhD FACHI Source Type: blogs
Scopis Introduces Mixed Reality to Simplify Surgical Navigation
Scopis, a surgical navigation company, announced a mixed reality surgical navigation system that uses the Microsoft HoloLens for spinal surgery applications.
It combines current surgical navigation technologies with Microsoft’s augmented reality headset to show surgeons where they’re drilling into in real-time, without shifting their gaze away from the surgical field. The surgeon wears the HoloLens, and sees both the patient and a superimposed augmented reality image. The display overlays the planned placements of screws directly onto the patient and shows the surgeon how to correct both the positionin...
Source: Medgadget - May 8, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Ben Ouyang Tags: Neurosurgery Orthopedic Surgery Source Type: blogs
Elekta Releases Unity, The First Commercial High-Field MR-Linac System
Elekta, the famous Swedish maker of radiation therapy, radiosurgery, and brachytherapy systems, is finally releasing a linear accelerator therapy and magnetic resonance imaging scanner in one unified system. Many physicists and engineers thought that this would be impossible, as quickly moving charged particles shooting out of an accelerator are strongly affected by a magnetic field. But scientists at UMC Utrecht, a major research center in Holland, had some novel ideas and built the first prototype long ago, proving the skeptics wrong, and in the process convincing Elekta to work with Philips on developing a commercial ...
Source: Medgadget - May 8, 2017 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Radiation Oncology Radiology Source Type: blogs
Elekta Releases Unity, The First High-Field MR-Linac System
Elekta, the famous Swedish maker of radiation therapy, radiosurgery, and brachytherapy systems, is finally releasing a linear accelerator therapy and magnetic resonance imaging scanner in one unified system. Many physicists and engineers thought that this would be impossible, as quickly moving charged particles shooting out of an accelerator are strongly affected by a magnetic field. But scientists at UMC Utrecht, a major research center in Holland, had some novel ideas and built the first prototype long ago, proving the skeptics wrong, and in the process convincing Elekta to work with Philips on developing a commercial ...
Source: Medgadget - May 8, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Radiation Oncology Radiology Source Type: blogs
