Artificial intelligence could have profound implications for the field of oncology, concluded panelists speaking to journalist and moderator Katie Couric at the Constellation Forum 2023 at Northwell Health last week.
Dr. Richard Barakat, physician in chief and executive director of cancer services and research division at Northwell Health, noted that using AI in imaging will help radiologists and...
Northwell Holdings, the investment arm of New York-based health system Northwell Health, and startup studio Aegis Ventures announced Thursday they had signed an agreement to launch Upliv, a virtual menopause care company.
Upliv is the first company formed through Northwell and Aegis' partnership focused on equity in women's healthcare. In April, the startup studio announced plans to invest at...
After announcing an additional $10 million raise in July, bringing its total Series C funding to $115 million, pediatric virtual behavioral health company Brightline is laying off 20% of its workforce.
The layoffs at Brightline were first reported by Behavioral Health Business. Cuts were made across all areas of the company.
"We identified several areas to realign our strategic priorities and...
Hume AI scored $3 million from Northwell Holdings, the investment arm of New York-based health system Northwell Health, to continue developing machine learning models that aim to understand speech and expression.
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The startup builds natural language-understanding tools that take text, audio, video or images and try to capture meaning, as well as emotion and other expressions....
New York-based health system Northwell Health is partnering with Google Cloud to use cloud technology and artificial intelligence to automate administrative workflows and identify patient risk factors for early intervention.
The collaboration will use Google's tech for scheduling, automating contact with payers and creating summaries of patient medical information. It will also use machine...
With a focus on the artificial intelligence space, Northwell Health, a New York-based health system, is teaming up with startup studio Aegis Ventures on a new joint enterprise called JV. The venture is focused on the use of AI to address quality, equity and cost problems in healthcare.
As part of the agreement, Aegis Ventures is pledging $100 million in seed-stage funding into the venture which...
Trust is one of the most important factors in healthcare, according to a panel at Northwell Health’s Raise Health Forum. However, due to current health inequities and a dark history of racism and bias, the medical system has often lost this component in many underserved communities.
“We have been treated in many respects as lab animals, where in marginalized communities the only access to help we...
For all of the weight healthcare disruptors throw behind the idea of innovation, there's something to be said about moving too fast and breaking too many things. Adoption of new digital tools should never lead to an interruption in patients' care.
COVID-19, however, wasn't the type of disruption that health systems had on their calendars. A shift away from in-person visits and a skyrocketing...
The year 2020 pushed the notoriously slow healthcare industry to innovate at record speed. Need and collaboration were at the heart of these advancements, according to a panel at Cleveland Clinic and HIMSS’ Patient Experience series.
COVID-19 shook healthcare systems and put digital in the forefront. Providence's health system in Washington became the first system to treat a COVID-19 positive...
Fitbit announced today it will receive nearly $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Defense through the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command to expand its work in developing an algorithm that can detect COVID-19 before symptoms show.
In addition to the award, Fitbit will begin a study with Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research to further advance the early...
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