AI radiology firm Synapsica expands PACS offering to more Indian cities
AI radiology reporting company Synapsica has partnered with GenWorks Health, a healthcare solutions provider backed by Wipro GE Healthcare, to bring its picture archiving and communication system (PACS) to more cities across India.
Its Radiolens radiology workflow solution automatically detects bad quality scans and creates...
SafelyYou, maker of AI-enabled technology for fall detection and prevention, scooped up $30 million in Series B funding months after the close of its $19.5 Series A round.
The round was led by Omega Healthcare Investors, with participation from SCAN Group.
Omega Healthcare Investors, a real estate investment trust that focuses on long term and senior care, also prepaid $10 million to install...
An app can track the calories you consume. A wearable monitors your step count, urging you to get active if your number is too low. That same watch might be able to evaluate your sleep too, even monitor your blood oxygen levels.
With a variety of methods on the market to track and measure your body, when is fitness-tracking and calorie-counting, especially for weight loss, too much? In the midst...
Women First Digital, which provides online sexual and reproductive health resources, has partnered with Doctors Without Borders to launch a video series to guide patients through a medication abortion.
The series, which is available in 27 languages, aims to answer questions such as how abortion pills work, what to expect when undergoing a medication abortion and what signs to look for in case of...
OptumHealth Education, the company’s continued learning spinout, released a new training program to instruct healthcare professionals on how to treat the unique needs of people in the LGBTQ+ community.
The free and on-demand series was created alongside the LGBTQ+ nonprofit OutCare Health, which has its own supply of resources, including a directory of culturally competent providers, location-...
The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine has announced a medical research platform to study astronauts’ health and performance during commercial spaceflights.
The program, called EXPAND (Enhancing eXploration Platforms and Analog Definition), will collect data from multiple flights and keep it in a centralized database in order to improve the...
Laguna Health is launching an app to help patients manage their care at home after discharge from the hospital.
The app offers post-discharge patients access to a 24/7 care team, behavioral care providers and coaches, recovery plans, educational resources, and chat or video appointments.
Laguna is currently undergoing a clinical trial with NorthShore University HealthSystem in the Chicago area...
A mobile app designed to assist with pediatric drug preparation lowered the rate of medication errors and time to drug delivery when used by paramedics, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
Some study authors have pending intellectual property rights on the app used, called PedAMINES, and are employees of Geneva University Hospitals, the app’s owner.
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Out of 304 drug...
Medication abortion administered via telehealth is largely safe and effective, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open.
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The study of 110 patients between October 2020 and January 2021 found 95% had a complete abortion without any additional medical intervention.
Five patients needed medical care to complete the abortion, and two of them were treated in an...
Hope Johnson, the administrator of Perioperative Services at Lehigh Valley Health Network, has been with the eight-hospital health system for nearly 15 years. As such, she has watched and been a part of Lehigh Valley’s technological transformation.
“It’s crazy,” she told MobiHealthNews. “Like every project we do now involves technology, whether it’s security, HIPAA,” or the system’s recent...