cardiology
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Hospitals, Artificial Intelligence
Mayo Clinic selects U.K startup’s AI tool to gain insights on Covid’s effect on the heart
A young UK startup is collaborating on a research study with Mayo Clinic to use an FDA-cleared automated echocardiogram assessment and quantification tool to unlock the mysteries of how Covid-19 attacks the heart.
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Cardiologist’s digital health startup raises $8.2M
Heartbeat Health, a digital health startup to help patients manage heart disease, raised $8.2 million in series A funding. The platform offers telehealth visits and helps patients keep track of their heart health by pulling in metrics from wearables and other devices.
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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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Exclusive: Digital health company HeartFlow gets Japanese reimbursement approval for cardiac diagnostic tech
The new Japanese reimbursement policy will go into effect on Dec. 1 and follows positive coverage decisions by Medicare and the United Kingdom’s National Health Services.
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Health IT, Devices & Diagnostics
Apple’s gets first FDA clearance for retail ECG watch technology
The company’s new Apple Watch can perform ECGs, detect atrial fibrillation and contact emergency services in the case of a fall.
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Facebook hits pause button on research project that asked hospitals to share patient data
CNBC reports the tech giant has halted talks with U.S. hospitals to share anonymized patient information, and Facebook said no data has been shared or analyzed.
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Google trains machine learning algorithm to use eyes to learn about the heart
If the eyes are the window to the soul, Google thinks it’s proven that images of the retina can offer a window on the state of the heart.
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New study by Cardiogram confirms accuracy of diabetes detection via fitness trackers
Cardiogram’s study with University of California San Francisco recruited 14,011 participants who access the Cardiogram app through Apple Watch or Android smartwear.
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AliveCor’s cardiac tool for Apple’s smartwatch to detect Afib gets FDA clearance
AliveCor’s Kardiaband is designed to help consumers manage the task of detecting Afib, a form of heart arrhythmia and will help Apple bolster its relevance to healthcare.
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Quest Diagnostics’ Cleveland HeartLab acquisition reflects personalized medicine trend
In addition to the acquisition, Quest Diagnostics and the Cleveland Clinic have embarked on a strategic collaboration that will evaluate biomarkers for various diseases, with Quest developing tests for some of them.
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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.
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Devices & Diagnostics, Diagnostics, Health IT, Startups, SYN
A new world of non-invasive cardiac diagnostics
Genetesis and Analytics 4 Life have developed non-invasive approaches to cardiac diagnostics.
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Report that Medicare has paid $1.5B to replace defective heart devices shows better tracking needed
The report found that nearly 73,000 people on Medicare had one of the seven devices replaced because of recalls, premature failures, medically necessary upgrades or infections.
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Apple upgrades heart monitoring tech to flag arrhythmias, adds new study with Stanford Medicine
Apple COO Jeff Williams noted that the company has been working on improvements to its heart rate monitoring technology over the past couple of years and claimed that Apple’s heart rate monitor is the most widely used in the world.
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This specialty lags behind in speech recognition technology adoption
A recent report from Reaction’s Research Cloud takes a look at how one medical specialty is slow to implement speech recognition technology.
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Study ties LivaNova factory to heart surgery infections from contaminated medical devices
The analysis provides a critical piece of the puzzle behind more than 100 severe — and sometimes fatal — infections in cardiac surgery patients worldwide since 2013, researchers said.
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Eko gets FDA clearance for digital stethoscope with ECG
The device can be used in a doctor’s office and could be prescribed to heart disease patients to support remote monitoring and reduce readmissions.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
