Mayo Clinic

A surgeon looking at a monitor.
By  Emily Olsen 03:45 pm November 9, 2022
Anumana, a joint venture between EHR data company nference and the Mayo Clinic, announced this week it had purchased NeuTrace, which focused on developing AI applications for assessing electrical signals in the heart.  The deal includes the NeuTrace EP Data Biome, a platform designed to link devices and AI tools during electrophysiology procedures, as well as AI applications in development that...
Researchers in a lab using an iPad.
By  Emily Olsen 01:30 pm September 21, 2022
EHR data company nference on Wednesday launched its real-world evidence generation platform and expanded its existing partnership with the Mayo Clinic.  The platform, dubbed nSights, collects de-identified patient clinical data from academic medical centers, including clinical notes, radiology results, lab tests and electrocardiograms. The company said it will eventually add digital pathology and...
Two doctors looking at data on a laptop
By  Emily Olsen 10:23 am July 19, 2022
Anumana, a joint venture between EHR data company nference and the Mayo Clinic, announced last week it had entered a strategic partnership with pharma giant Novartis to develop artificial intelligence tools to detect cardiovascular diseases. The collaboration will focus on deploying AI algorithms that analyze ECGs to find left ventricular dysfunction, which can lead to heart failure, and...
Doctor talks to patient
By  Laura Lovett 02:18 pm February 4, 2022
​​From self-driving cars to virtual travel agents, artificial intelligence has quickly transformed the landscape for nearly every industry. The technology is also employed in healthcare to help with clinical decision support, imaging and triage.  However, using AI in a healthcare setting poses a unique set of ethical and logistical challenges. MobiHealthNews asked health tech vet Muhammad Babur,...
Doctor and patient
By  Laura Lovett 01:13 pm August 26, 2021
Alphabet’s life science subsidiary Verily is teaming up with the Mayo Clinic on a new effort to develop a digital point-of-care clinical decision support tool. The partnership will start by zeroing in on cardiometabolic conditions, and is directed at contextualizing information and giving care guidelines to clinicians.  In the partnership, the Mayo Clinic will be responsible for the clinical...
By  Laura Lovett 02:59 pm December 15, 2020
This morning nference, maker of a software platform that helps to synthesize biomedical information, scored $60 million in Series C funding. Matrix Capital Management led the round with participation from Matrix Partners, Mayo Clinic Ventures and NTTVC.  WHAT IT DOES The company has developed a software that makes it easy for researchers, doctors and industry players to search for biomedical...
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By  Dave Muoio 03:17 pm October 29, 2020
This morning Israeli "Digital X-ray" company Nanox announced a new deal with medical data and image management firm Ambra Health. The agreement will see Ambra's cloud software integrated with the digital component of Nanox's in-development imaging systems, and according to the companies will streamline image management while making it easier to access for providers and patients. "It is our intent...
By  Dave Muoio 02:29 pm October 22, 2020
Searching for outbreaks. The long and sometimes muddled tradition of predicting outbreak hot spots by analyzing search engine activity has continued into the COVID-19 era, with Mayo Clinic researchers publishing new findings that suggest strong correlations between certain keywords and case reports. In reviewing data from Jan. 22 to April 6, "face mask," "Lysol" and "COVID stimulus check" had the...
By  Sara Mageit 06:38 am September 30, 2020
A research programme led by US-based non-profit medical centre Mayo Clinic and UK health tech firm Ultromics will apply AI to forecast heart failure. The team will use AI analysis of ultrasound heart scans to identify the markers of heart failure and alert doctors to potential heart failure. WHY IT MATTERS The aim is to develop a diagnostic and predictive tool that can reduce misdiagnosis and...
By  Dave Muoio 02:34 pm September 28, 2020
A new review of Apple Watch-related presentations suggests that the device's abnormal pulse detection feature may be fueling unnecessary healthcare utilization. "The observation that new clinically actionable cardiovascular diagnoses of interest were diagnosed in only 11.4% of patients following medical evaluation as directed by the treating provider suggests a high false positive rate as a...