Medical forms are often complicated and filled with jargon, making them difficult for patients to understand. Especially since they're put in front of people at already stressful moments.
Digital Health
GE HealthCare launched a digital tool that provides clinicians with data surrounding the history of a patient's heart and guideline-directed insight for clinical decision support.
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is working on creating an AI-based clinical decision support tool aimed at improving treatments for children and adolescents with asthma.
A startup founded by a former Cleveland Clinic physician to manage compliance and physician relationships for advanced practitioners has landed $3 million in venture capital funding.
Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Stanford University School of Medicine, says artificial intelligence's long-term effects on medicine are "underhyped," Politico reported Aug. 23.
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As healthcare disruptors continue to enter the fray, Americans still aren't all that familiar with some of them.
Nursa, a digital nurse staffing platform designed to combat hospital staffing shortages, raised $80 million in series B financing.
Banner Health partnered with Nference, a biotechnology software company, for better access to analytics focused on driving scientific discoveries to improve treatment, diagnosis and care.
Clinetic, a clinical research software company spun out of Durham, N.C.-based Duke University, raised $5 million in a series A financing round, Triangle Business Journal reported Aug. 21.
Waystar, a healthcare-focused financial management software vendor, may be headed for an initial public offering, according to an Aug. 21 report from Reuters.