UCSF
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Nvidia Aims to Simplify AI Adoption Process for Cincinnati Children’s, UCSF
Nvidia unveiled new tools designed to make it easier for hospitals to integrate AI models related to medical imaging into their clinical workflows. The tools have been adopted by major cloud infrastructure providers, as well as healthcare providers and AI software companies. Some of these include Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, University of California San Francisco, England’s National Health Service and Qure.ai.
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How UCSF’s accelerator is helping health tech reach more low-income patients
The low-income patient populations who bear disproportionate disease burdens are the same populations who are most likely to face barriers in health technology use, according to Courtney Lyles co-founder of S.O.L.V.E. Health Tech, UCSF’s health equity accelerator. The program she co-founded seeks to address this problem by conducting research with digital health startups about how their products can better serve low-income patients.
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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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Hospitals, Social Determinants
How UCSF created a data platform that leverages 150+ social determinants variables
UCSF’s interactive data platform allows users to drill down into 150 social determinants of health variables. This data, layered with EHR data, can give researchers and clinicians invaluable insights into the nexus of social factors and health.
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Startups, Devices & Diagnostics, Events, Policy
From campus to consumer: Lessons on university tech transfer
A panel at the WSGR Medical Device Conference in San Francisco delved into the specifics around what oftentimes sinks the relationship between companies and colleges and how to create real alignment and understanding between the two stakeholders.
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Cardiogram signs first reimbursement deal with Oscar Health
If Cardiogram’s technology highlights a potential issue of atrial fibrillation or diabetes, patients will be given free access to what the company calls a “gold standard” diagnostic test to confirm the results.
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UC Health expands Apple Health Records access to its 5 million patients
Patients across the entire University of California Health network are now being given the ability to download their medical data onto their Apple smartphones.
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Dignity Health, UCSF Health team on digital patient engagement tool
The two San Francisco-based entities have collaborated to create a digital platform aimed at helping patients navigate their care journey and connect with providers.
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UCSF blog post opts to call EHR “connected health record” rather than “comprehensive health record”
In a blog post, three individuals from UCSF’s Center for Digital Health Innovation advocate for calling EHRs “connected health records,” a term that is more focused on interoperability and allowing a patient’s entire care team to interact and update information.
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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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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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UCSF-led clinical trial model may present a better way to test new breast cancer drugs
The UCSF-led I-Spy trial is a public-private partnership, which includes the NIH, FDA and pharma companies, and is working to match breast cancer patients with the most effective drugs and rapidly amass evidence to get those drugs (agents) approved.
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Walgreens creates Center for Health & Wellbeing Research
By working with academic partners like Johns Hopkins Medicine, Walgreens has launched the center, which contains a plethora of studies on topics ranging from digital health to HIV.
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How population health will benefit from the journey to precision medicine
The San Francisco Cancer Initiative, for example, is about sharing information for what works and what doesn’t work for five types of cancer: prostate, breast, liver, colorectal and tobacco-related cancers.
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Third Rock funnels $45M into Pliant Therapeutics to develop small molecule drugs for fibrosis
It plans to bring its idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis small molecule to the clinic in the next two years.
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Wachter: Digital health is now the norm, but it needs work
“In the last five years, we have gone from a primarily analog business to a primarily digital business,” Dr. Robert Wachter said at AMIA 2015.
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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.
