Innovation

Patient identity authentication may sound like a purely technical issue, but optimizing its process has far-reaching implications for patient experience, patient safety, health equity, health outcomes and expenditures.

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Despite stories and opinions about the failed promise of artificial intelligence, the technology has the potential to revolutionize medicine — and society as a whole, New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose wrote Aug. 24.

South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore, N.Y., has integrated artificial intelligence into its colonoscopy screenings to improve the detection of colon cancer.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has implemented a touchless weapons screening system at three of its hospitals in response to a rash of shootings at hospitals in recent years.

Louisville, Ky.-based ScionHealth will remotely monitor thousands of ambulatory patients from its 18 community hospitals across a dozen states through a collaboration with health tech company Cadence.

Care management company TribeHealth is partnering with chronic disease management company Engooden Health.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a tool that combines artificial intelligence and a contactless sensor can detect Parkinson's disease by the way a person breathes.

Biospecimen company Discovery Life Sciences has named Michael Pisano, PhD, as executive vice president of proteomics.

San Diego-based Cellipoint Bioservices, a cell therapy contract development company, is building a manufacturing facility near Houston, according to an Aug. 18 blog post in the Houston Report.