triage
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Babylon Health’s CEO ‘Should Spend Some Time With Elizabeth Holmes’
U.K. doctor David Watkins has been a public critic of Babylon Health and its AI technology for years, during which has received anonymous emails from Babylon employees who shared his concerns but feared to speak out publicly. After Babylon collapsed, a former employee publicly declared that the AI engine was indeed faulty. As a longtime skeptic of Babylon’s claims surrounding its technology, Watkins said that Ali Parsa, the company’s CEO, shouldn’t be treated any differently to Elizabeth Holmes.
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RapidAI Rakes In $75M to Accelerate Stroke Diagnosis
RapidAI recently closed a $75 million Series C funding round led by Vista Credit Partners. The company offers an AI platform that helps hospital care teams triage and treat stroke patients more quickly.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
RapidAI gets FDA clearance for AI designed to detect pulmonary embolism
The company’s AI-enabled imaging software identifies a suspected pulmonary embolism and delivers real-time notifications to physicians so the patient can be treated quickly.
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How UCLA Health incorporated telehealth into its triage protocol
In response to the spike in demand for virtual care services amid the Covid-19 pandemic, UCLA Health developed telehealth-specific triage protocols to ensure their patients are getting care through the appropriate medium — whether in person or via a video visit. Here’s how they did it.
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
Cigna, Humana lead $37.5M investment in Buoy Health
The Boston-based startup developed a symptom checker that can also help navigate users to care in their insurance network. Optum Ventures is also one of its backers.
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Health IT, Health Tech, Payers
California insurer rolls out Covid-19 triage tool
Blue Shield of California is partnering with digital health startup GYANT to roll out Covid-19 screening tools to hospitals in its network for free. Hospitals can deploy the tool on their websites, without having to integrate it with their health record systems.
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Startups, Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
Babylon Health, physician tussle over triage chatbot’s safety
Babylon Health, a London-based startup, faced concerns raised by an oncologist about results generated by its triage chatbot. The company brushed off the complaints as tests from a “Twitter troll.”
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Startups, Artificial Intelligence, Health Services, Health Tech
London-based Babylon Health raises $550 million megaround
The multinational cohort of investors was led by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and included participation by global reinsurance company Munich Re, Swedish investment firm Kinnevik AB and Vostok New Ventures.
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Buoy Health raises $6.7M for smarter triage tool aimed at hospitals and payers
The funding will be used to expand the staff from 10 to 19 in the next 12 months and add to its customer base of hospitals and payers beyond Boston
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.