Sharp Healthcare, Sanford Health first to join Dandelion Health Data Consortium

Sharp HealthCare, a leading healthcare systems serving San Diego, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota-based Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, have joined with New York-based Dandelion Health on a project meant to build diversity into data science. WHY IT MATTERSThe… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

Q&A: Why mental health chatbots need strict safety guardrails

Mental health continues to be a leading clinical focus for digital health investors. There’s plenty of competition in the space, but it’s still a big challenge for the healthcare system: Many Americans live in areas with a shortage of mental health professionals, limiting access to care. Wysa,… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

iRhythm Technologies receives another FDA 510(k) for AFib monitoring system

iRhythm Technologies announced it has received another FDA 510(k) clearance for its ZEUS (Zio ECG Utilization Software) System that works with a wearable to monitor patients with atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm.  Developed in partnership with Alphabet life science subsidiary… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

Nuance expands Dragon Medical One availability

Nuance Communications on Tuesday announced that its Nuance Dragon Medical One clinical documentation software will now be made available through Microsoft Marketplace.ecosystem. WHY IT MATTERSNuance cites data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Office of the Surgeon General that show… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

CommonSpirit Health gains huge efficiencies with AI-infused OR scheduling tool

CommonSpirit Health, a combination of DignityHealth and Catholic Health Initiatives, is a nationwide health system of more than 350 hospitals. THE PROBLEM With this many hospitals, it can be difficult to implement technology across the entire system that employees will actually warm to, said… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

Apollo Hospitals, ConnectedLife tie up for AI heart disease risk tool integration

Indian hospital chain Apollo Hospitals Group is integrating its latest AI tool for predicting a patient’s cardiovascular disease risk with the digital health solutions of Singaporean health tech provider ConnectedLife. In September last year, Apollo Hospitals introduced its AI CVD tool, which… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

Metaverse and virtual reality are gaining a foothold in healthcare

Photo: eyesfoto/Getty Images More than eight in 10 healthcare executives expect the metaverse to have a positive impact on the healthcare industry, according to a report from Accenture. The Accenture Digital Health Technology Vision 2022 report called the metaverse “the next horizon” in… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more

Aster DM Healthcare, Intel, CARPL.ai launch AI health data platform in India

The Aster Innovation and Research Centre, the innovation hub of the Aster DM Healthcare Group, has teamed up with Intel Corporation and AI platform provider CARPL.ai to develop and roll out an AI-powered health data platform in India. WHAT IT DOES The health data platform is based on federated… From: www.healthcareitnews.com – Read more