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Novo Nordisk partners with Flex for digital diabetes management tools

October 23, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner Leave a Comment

Flex (NSDQ:FLEX) today announced a partnership with Novo Nordisk (NYSE:NVO) to develop digital diabetes management tools using Flex’s BrightInsight IoT platform. Novo Nordisk plans to use Flex’s BrightInsight system to build and manage connected medical devices and the corresponding data. The company’s IoT platform is designed to enable organizations to develop digital health devices while remaining compliant with […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Diabetes, Drug-Device Combinations, Pharmaceutical, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Novo Nordisk

Nvidia, Scripps look to tackle atrial fibrillation with deep learning

October 23, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner Leave a Comment

Nvidia (NSDQ:NVDA) and Scripps Research Translational Institute announced today that the groups are teaming up to develop deep learning tools to process genomic and medical sensor data. The tech giant and the non-profit research org hope to leverage artificial intelligence to prevent disease and accelerate biomedical research efforts. The use of AI in healthcare is […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Cardiovascular, Featured, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: nvidia, Scripps Research Institute

One Drop wirelessly connects to Apple Watch

September 12, 2018 By Nancy Crotti Leave a Comment

One Drop said today that its wireless blood glucose monitoring system can now connect directly to Apple Watch, making it the first diabetes company’s system to do so. One Drop was also the first such company to launch a companion Apple Watch app, but until now, users had to manually log blood glucose, food, medication, and […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Diabetes, Featured Tagged With: Apple Watch, onedrop

NIH gives cancer detection a gigantic image boost

July 23, 2018 By Nancy Crotti Leave a Comment

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has made public more than 32,000 annotated cancer lesions identified on CT images to help radiologists improve their cancer-detection accuracy. Large enough to train a deep neural network, the DeepLesion database could enable the scientific community to create a large-scale universal lesion detector with one unified framework, according to […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Imaging, Oncology, Patient Monitoring Tagged With: DeepLesion, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Digital Surgery touts artificial intelligence for the operating room

July 16, 2018 By Chris Newmarker Leave a Comment

Officials at Digital Surgery (London) boast that they have successfully demonstrated a real-time, dynamic artificial intelligence (AI) system designed for the operating room. The patented AI platform includes surgical procedure roadmaps that are meant to aid the surgical team in an OR. The goal is to reduce risk and make surgery safer. Get the full story on our […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Business/Financial News, Health Information Technology, News Well, Surgical Tagged With: AI, artificial intelligence, digitalsurgery

Insulet extends deal with Glooko in Europe

July 13, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner Leave a Comment

Insulet (NSDQ:PODD) said today that it inked a deal with Glooko to connect data from Insulet’s Omnipod insulin delivery devices in Europe with the Glooko+diasend diabetes data management system. Glooko touted that its data management tech is used at roughly 7,000 provider sites across 23 countries. The Glooko+diasend system allows users to sync and review data from an […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Diabetes, Drug-Device Combinations, Patient Monitoring, Pharmaceutical, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Glooko, Insulet

Senseonics inks diabetes management deal with Glooko

July 10, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner Leave a Comment

Senseonics (NYSE:SENS) said today that it inked a global deal to integrate its Eversense continuous glucose monitoring system with Glooko‘s diabetes data management tech. Users will be able to sync data from their Eversense CGM directly into Glooko’s platform and view historical glucose trends, as well as receive real-time readings from their Eversense mobile app, according to […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Diabetes, Digital Health, Patient Monitoring, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Glooko, Senseonics

Hey, Google! When will I die?

June 20, 2018 By Nancy Crotti Leave a Comment

Google’s AI capabilities can predict with greater accuracy than a hospital’s computers when a critically ill patient will die, according to a new study. Using a patient’s entire chart, Google’s deep learning methods were able to predict, 24 hours after admission, the risk of that patient’s death at 19.9% while the regular hospital’s computers predicted […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Health Information Technology Tagged With: AI, Alphabet (Google)

Report: IBM Watson Health cuts back on hospital biz

June 18, 2018 By Brad Perriello Leave a Comment

The Watson Health operation at International Business Machine (NYSE:IBM) is reportedly cutting back on the portion of its business that sells to hospitals due to a softening market for value-based healthcare offerings. Managers for IBM Watson Health told workers last week that changes to the Affordable Care Act caused hospitals to spend less on managing outcomes-based contracts, […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Software / IT, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: IBM Watson Health, value-based healthcare

6 reasons you shouldn’t bet on blockchain disrupting healthcare

May 23, 2018 By Brad Perriello Leave a Comment

Blockchain is the big buzzword these days, bruited as a disruptive force for industries covering the spectrum. But there seems to be little understanding of what exactly “blockchain” means, let alone how it could affect so many different markets so profoundly. Simply put, a blockchain is a decentralized database with tight rules about how data […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Software / IT Tagged With: blockchains

NIH launches precision medicine project to collect health data from one million volunteers

May 2, 2018 By Sarah Faulkner Leave a Comment

The National Institutes of Health will open national enrollment next week for its All of Us research program, aiming to collect health data from at least one million volunteers across the country. The project, which has been in beta for the last year, will request health and lifestyle data from volunteers using online surveys and electronic health […]

Filed Under: Big Data, Pharmaceutical, Research & Development Tagged With: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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