Mount Sinai
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Mount Sinai Doctors Vote to Strike Over Pay, Benefits Disparities
Resident physicians at Mount Sinai’s Elmhurst Hospital in Queens have voted to authorize a strike. The union that represents these residents has noticed significant disparities in Mount Sinai’s compensation and benefits when compared to the resident physicians employed at the health system’s flagship hospital in Manhattan.
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White matter could have more clues about Alzheimer’s than previously thought, Mount Sinai researchers say
Mount Sinai researchers published a study that could improve neuroscientists’ understanding of the progression of Alzheimer’s and other forms of cognitive decline. It proved that white matter may be a more important region to look at than was previously thought.
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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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Health Tech, Hospitals, MedCitizens, SYN
Mount Sinai, mPulse Mobile team up to reduce teenage diabetes
The rising levels of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes in American youth is quickly becoming a major public health concern. To help address this problem, Mount Sinai partnered with mPulse Mobile, a company that offers a AI-based mobile patient messaging platform. Together with a group of teenage community members, they created a text message-based youth diabetes prevention program focused on integrating healthy behaviors into teens’ lives.
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Hospitals, Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
In scramble to respond to Covid-19, hospitals turned to models with high risk of bias
Of 26 health systems surveyed by MedCity News, nearly half used automated tools to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, but none of them were regulated. Even as some hospitals continued using these algorithms, experts cautioned against their use in high-stakes decisions.
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The key IT decisions that helped providers survive April 2020
As Covid-19 cases started escalating last April, providers in hotspot states, like New York, California and Washington, had to quickly pivot their IT plans. These are some of the decisions that five health IT leaders made — aside from expanding telehealth — that helped their health systems survive the first wave of the pandemic and beyond.
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How Mount Sinai is using tech to support cancer patients amid the pandemic
The New York City-based health system implemented Current Health’s remote patient monitoring solution to enhance its cancer care services. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, cancer care has been severely delayed, and the health system aims to provide more consistent care to this patient group through the new solution.
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Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
Hundreds of AI solutions proposed for pandemic, but few are proven
Companies are employing AI to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic in a number of different ways, including diagnosing Covid-19 cases, identifying which patients would be at highest risk and discovering potential treatments. But not all of these approaches have been validated, experts warned.
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Hospitals, Telemedicine, Policy
Ochsner, Mount Sinai among first to get grants from FCC’s Covid-19 telehealth program
Six hospitals received grants from the Federal Communications Commission to expand their telehealth programs to prevent the spread of Covid-19. The first six grants are just a portion of the $200 million the FCC will distribute through the program.
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Top Story, Health IT, Artificial Intelligence, Health Tech
Startup bets on AI voice assistant to prevent physician burnout
Mount Sinai Health System spinoff Rx.Health launched a new set of tools to prevent physician burnout, starting with voice assistant startup Suki Health.
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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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Top Story, Health IT, Startups, Telemedicine
Teleradiology startup comes out of stealth mode, announces $16.5M funding round
Nines, a teleradiology company using machine learning to triage important cases, raised a $16.5 million funding round led by Accel and 8VC.
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American Gastroenterological Association, American College of Cardiology invest in Mount Sinai spinoff Rx.Health
This investment in Rx.Health, which has a solution that enables physicians to prescribe evidence-based apps, marks the first time the AGA has invested in a startup.
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Mount Sinai spinout and Thorne Research pair up for pilot of fertility monitoring tool
As part of the partnership, the Mount Sinai spinout OOVA’s tool will be available to more than 3 million potential customers and 35,000 clinicians through bundled sales with Thorne supplements.
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OWKIN initiates AI research network made up of 44 organizations
The goal of the OWKIN Loop Network, which includes hospitals and research institutions in the United States and Europe, is to advance knowledge sharing in the medical research field.
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Supply chain solutions company secures $2M to expand footprint
Black Granite Capital led the round, which the company, Jump Technologies, will use to expand its sales efforts and support product development.
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Renalytix AI raises $29M through IPO for AI-based kidney disease diagnostics
The company’s first product, a diagnostic aid known as KidneyIntelX is aiming to identify patients at risk for particularly fast progression of kidney disease.
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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.
