The National Institutes of Health announced that it awarded seven contracts to companies to develop digital health solutions for addressing COVID-19. NIH said in a news release that the technology developed to help address the pandemic could lead to user-friendly tools like smartphone apps, wearable devices and software that can identify and trace contacts of […]
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FDA clears GE Healthcare X-ray algorithms
GE Healthcare said today that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its AI algorithms embedded in a mobile X-ray device. The mobile X-ray device was built in collaboration with the University of California San Francisco using GE Healthcare’s Edison platform. The AI algorithms, which the company calls Critical Care Suite, are designed to reduce […]
Study: Wearable defibrillators don’t work unless you wear them
An electric-shock vest that can detect arrhythmias in heart attack patients reduced deaths among those who wore it as prescribed, according to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The highly sensitive wearable cardiac defibrillator (WCD) known as the Zoll LifeVest can deliver an electric shock when the heart beats out […]
