LAS VEGAS – At the Smart Health Transformation Forum at HIMSS25 here, leaders discussed various ways health systems and clinics implement innovations, pitfalls during the piloting or implementation process, analyzing the validity and use cases of AI, machine learning, big data, ambient listening, robotics and other technologies.
"Every part of our industry is broken. Every single part. There is...
Salesforce announced the launch of Agentforce for Health, an AI-driven platform that automates tasks like appointment booking, benefits verification and clinical trial matching. The tech giant is also partnering with healthcare technology company Athenahealth to streamline workflows, such as summarizing patient histories and processing prescription refills.
Amit Khanna, senior vice president and...
HCF now offers remote heart monitoring with Ramsay
Health insurer HCF has started offering remote heart monitoring service for patients dealing with heart failure.
It recently tied up with Ramsay Connect, Ramsay Health Care's community, home, and remote care joint venture with Remedy Healthcare, to offer two million HCF members access to the Virtual Heart Failure Service.
The service hooks...
Academic health system Emory Healthcare is partnering with Atropos Health, a company that translates real-world clinical data into real-world evidence, to advance medication formulary decisions and protocols.
Emory is piloting a program that aims to advance patient care by allowing clinical questions to be answered in real time using Atropos' platform.
The Atropos Evidence Network allows Emory...
Auckland-based health IT company Medtech Global has been acquired by software acquirer Banyan Software from the United States.
Founded in 1989, Medtech claims to develop the first practice management system in New Zealand. It also offers a payment solution and a digital health application integration platform.
WHY IT MATTERS
Medtech was first sold during the thick of the pandemic in 2020 to...
OpenEvidence, an AI-enabled medical research aggregate platform for doctors, has closed a Series A funding round with Sequoia Capital, boosting its valuation to $1 billion and bringing its total raise to more than $100 million.
WHAT IT DOES
OpenEvidence is a free medical information platform that offers an AI-enabled medical copilot for doctors in the U.S. It aggregates and synthesizes clinical...
Coreline Soft announces Australia launch, new FDA approval
South Korean medical imaging AI company Coreline Soft has made its way to Australia after securing a partnership with a major medical device supplier.
It entered into a strategic partnership with ASX-listed ParagonCare, which aims at major hospitals launching lung cancer screening projects as part of the Australian National Lung Cancer...
Engineers from the University of Hong Kong have developed a generative AI-based imaging method that supports cancer diagnosis.
HOW IT WORKS
CytoMAD (Cyto-Morphology Adversarial Distillation) combines AI and microfluidic technology to do label-free imaging of tumours at the individual cell level. It can capture cell images "at great speed, enhance these images, and automatically correct...
Harrison.ai has recently raised a total of $112 million in a Series C funding round led by Aware Super, ECP, and Horizons Ventures.
The earlier reported $20 million investment from the Australian government's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation adds to this pool. Ord Minnett, Wollemi Capital Group, Blackbird Ventures, and Alpha JWC Ventures also participated in this round.
Founded in 2018...
Kauvery Hospital invests in Lifesigns
Lifesigns has received undisclosed funding from Kauvery Hospital Group's investment arm, Healthcare Capital.
The new funds, based on a press statement, will "advance Lifesigns’ AI and predictive algorithm capabilities." The company offers an AI-powered remote patient monitoring system that provides alerts and predictive insights.
Lifesigns is now gearing...
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