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Orbita raises $9M; Building voice chatbots and search for healthcare, including provider focused solutions with EHR integration

Kyle Wiggers Venture Beat Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 28, 2020May 28, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics, Digital Health, StartupsTags Orbita Go Deeper
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CVS partners with Nuro to pilot prescription delivery using autonomous vehicles in Houston; Customers in three zip codes will be able to select autonomous delivery free of charge

Kirsten Korosec TechCrunch Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 28, 2020May 28, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Pharmacy Go Deeper
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Insitro raises $143M; Building an AI-driven biotech for new drug development

Jason Mast Endpoints Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 26, 2020May 26, 2020Categories Biotech, Artificial Intelligence, Startups Go Deeper
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Researchers use algorithm and fMRI data to predict which patients will emerge from post-cardiac arrest coma; Achieved 94% accuracy in study of 17 patients

Kate Madden Yee Aunt Minnie Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 26, 2020May 26, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Research Go Deeper
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DeepMind algorithm for predicting kidney decline shown in study to be less accurate for female patients; Women represented only 6% of training data

Rebecca Robbins STAT Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 26, 2020May 26, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Big TechTags DeepMind Go Deeper
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Telehealth startup Abridge is using NLP to automatically offer transcribed visit notes to patients and providers; UPMC currently offering service to patients

Mike Miliard Healthcare IT News Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 21, 2020May 21, 2020Categories Telehealth, Artificial Intelligence, StartupsTags Abridge, UPMC
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Mount Sinai Health System researchers publish study showing AI was able to detect COVID-19 in 17 of 25 lung CT scans that presented as normal

Kat Jercich Healthcare IT News Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 20, 2020May 20, 2020Categories Research, Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19Tags Mount Sinai
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Amazon Web Services has enhanced accuracy of its Amazon Transcribe Medical speech-to-text service for COVID-19 related terms

Jasmine Pennic HIT Consultant Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 19, 2020May 19, 2020Categories Big Tech, Artificial Intelligence, EHRTags Amazon Web Services
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Alphabet's DeepMind publishes study claiming high accuracy AI prediction of macular degeneration progression

Kyle Wiggers Venture Beat Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 18, 2020May 18, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Big TechTags Alphabet, DeepMind
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Immunai raises $20M; Building out machine learning technology to map the immune system, aiding development of diagnostics and therapies

Christine Hall Crunchbase News Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 14, 2020May 14, 2020Categories Startups, Artificial Intelligence, Biotech
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Nvidia launches Clara Guardian, an application framework to help hospitals deploy and connect smart, edge AI sensors

Release NVIDIA Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 14, 2020May 14, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Health IT, HospitalsTags Nvidia
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Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies launch virtual clinical study to map T cell immune response to COVID-19 to inform improved diagnostics; Part of broader partnership between two companies

Release Microsoft Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 14, 2020May 14, 2020Categories Big Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Biotech, PharmaTags Adaptive Biotechnologies, Microsoft
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Mayo Clinic and Ultromics researching use of AI image analysis for identifying high-risk COVID-19 patients using ECG readings

Jackie Drees Becker's Hospital Review Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 11, 2020May 13, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19, StartupsTags Mayo Clinic
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Intel launches NIH-funded collaboration with Penn Medicine to create distributed, privacy-focused federated learning network for training AI models to detect brain tumors

Kyle Wiggers Venture Beat Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 11, 2020May 13, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Data & AnalyticsTags Intel
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Aidoc's radiology AI to spot COVID-19 on CT scans gets FDA clearance

Kyle Wiggers Venture Beat Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 8, 2020May 8, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19, Startups
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Owkin raises $25M as part of extended Series A; Building a virtual lab that allows researchers to safely share and utilize anonymized data sets

Jonathan Shieber TechCrunch Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 8, 2020May 8, 2020Categories Startups, Artificial Intelligence, Research
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Babylon Health partnering with Mount Sinai Health Partners to bring telemedicine app, AI assistant, and symptom checker to New York; UK company intends to grow to operate in all 50 states

Heather Landi Fierce Healthcare Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 6, 2020May 13, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech, Hospitals, Primary Care, TelehealthTags Babylon Health, Mount Sinai Go Deeper
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Researchers launch AI-driven predictive platform, Epitopes.world, to help speed COVID vaccine development; Adapted from algorithms initially developed for oncology

Kyle Wiggers Venture Beat Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 6, 2020May 6, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19, Pharma, Research
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Analysis: AI tools and technologies will challenge established regulatory frameworks, as well as the authority of physicians

Anthony Weiss, Luke Sato, Barak D. Richman Health Affairs Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 4, 2020May 4, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Government
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Dascena raises $50M Series B; Building algorithmic diagnostic platforms for early disease detection and intervention

Christine Hall Crunchbase News Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on May 1, 2020May 1, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Startups
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Nines Radiology is making their new AI-based radiology triage tool available for free to existing customers through June

Darrell Etherington TechCrunch Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on April 30, 2020May 14, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Startups
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AITRICS partners with Cleveland Clinic to validate AI-driven critical events detection tool; Uses EMR data to provide early warnings of risk factors for complications

Dean Koh Healthcare IT News Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on April 29, 2020April 29, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, EHR, Health IT, Hospitals
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Google Health built a deep learning model to detect diabetic retinopathy from eye scans; It was 90% accurate, but the real-world trial was plagued by image quality & internet connectivity issues

Will Douglas Heaven MIT Technology Review Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on April 28, 2020April 28, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Telehealth
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Rome Therapeutics raises $50M Series A; developing novel therapies by using machine learning to investigate previously neglected sections of DNA

Jason Mast Endpoints Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on April 27, 2020April 27, 2020Categories Startups, Artificial Intelligence, Biotech
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Hospitals are using Epic's machine-learning-driven deterioration index to help determine patient risk; First time system is seeing broad use

Casey Ross STAT Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on April 24, 2020April 24, 2020Categories COVID-19, Artificial Intelligence, EHR, Hospitals
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Verily, Google Cloud launch COVID-19 Pathfinder; customizable voice/chatbot for hospitals to answer patient questions

Jessica Kim Cohen Modern Healthcare Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on April 24, 2020April 24, 2020Categories COVID-19, Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech, Hospitals
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Paige raises $5 million more from Goldman Sachs to detect cancer with computer vision; Brings total raised to $75M

Dean Takahashi Venture Beat Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on April 23, 2020April 23, 2020Categories Startups, Artificial Intelligence
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Nvidia launches Project MONAI AI framework; helps healthcare researchers reproduce AI-based experiments

Khari Johnson Venture Beat Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on April 22, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Research
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Unlearn.AI, which is using machine learning to create "digital twins" for clinical trials, raises $12M Series A

Ingrid Lunden TechCrunch Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on April 20, 2020April 23, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Startups
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International trial uses AI to rapidly identify optimal Covid-19 treatments

Casey Ross STAT Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19
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Ferrum raises $9 million to double-check radiology scans & physician notes for discrepancies using AI

Kyle Wiggers Venture Beat Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Startups
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Walgreens expands telehealth using Microsoft chatbot technology to meet demand during coronavirus outbreak

Susan Morse Healthcare Finance Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19, Retail Healthcare
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Intel pledges $50 million in cash and resources to anti-coronavirus efforts - will directly help healthcare and life sciences companies with computing, cloud services, and tech

Dean Takahashi VentureBeat Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on April 7, 2020April 7, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech, COVID-19
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Olive raises $51m to automate administrative healthcare workflows with AI

Heather Landi Fierce Healthcare Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on April 1, 2020April 1, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech, Startups
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Debate flares over using AI to detect Covid-19 in lung scans

Casey Ross STAT Author Healthcare HandoutPosted on March 30, 2020March 30, 2020Categories Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech, COVID-19
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