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Aetna a CVS Health business, launched Attain, a health experience app designed by Aetna in collaboration with Apple. Through the use of an Apple Watch, the Attain app will provide Aetna members with personalized goals, track their daily activity levels, recommend healthy actions and ultimately reward them for taking... 15 February 2019
In an article on HealthcareITNews, Cathy Lester, Health Outcomes Innovation, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, champions for telemedicine solutions in disaster response efforts. Lester writes: “Some of the biggest challenges to widespread adoption and use of telemedicine in disaster response are associated with scale and activation – for example, activating medical... 15 February 2019
In an article on KevinMD, Dr. Tista S. Ghosh, MD, MPH, discusses the high suicide rate among physicians and advocates for a solution. Ghosh writes: “Physicians have long had disproportionately high suicide rates. One 2018 literature review found the physician suicide rate to be double the average. Sleep deprivation, stress and... 15 February 2019
Medical Training Magazine is happy to host the MMAST bi-monthly newsletter. 14 February 2019
The Crown Prince’s Centre for Training and Medical Research is the first simulation center in the Kingdom of Bahrain and will serve as a Middle East hub to attract the collaboration of the health and educational institutions around the world. The center provides the high-quality simulation-based medical education by... 14 February 2019
Bahrain News Agency reports that under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister, the Crown Prince Centre for Training and Medical Research was opened in early February, marking the Bahrain Defence Force (BDF)’s... 14 February 2019
IBM Watson Health plans to make a ten-year, $50 million investment in research collaborations with two separate academic centers – Brigham and Women's Hospital, which is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center – to advance the science of artificial intelligence (AI) and its... 14 February 2019
Zynx Health announced the launch of Lumynz, a surveillance and analytics SaaS platform that measures the utilization of evidence-based interventions and the impact on financial outcomes. Lumynz provides an interactive, retrospective analysis of provider orders utilization against evidence-based interventions to enhance outcomes. This analysis highlights how the interventions are... 13 February 2019
Change Healthcare announced free clinical data interoperability services for the healthcare industry. The foundational infrastructure services, namely record locator service, identity management and document retrieval solution with protection of patient privacy, support a comprehensive range of use cases. By providing these services, Change Healthcare is paving the way for... 13 February 2019
Cerner has introduced Chart Assist, a new AI-enabled workflow, to join a suite of solutions designed to reduce physician burnout, enhance the clinician’s experience and increase productivity. Cerner’s suite of AI-enabled solutions goes beyond traditional processing and focuses on user efficiency to identify gaps and inconsistencies within the patient... 13 February 2019
University of Houston and Methodist Hospital researchers are reporting in Nature Scientific Reports that the best way to train surgeons is to remove the stress of residency programs and make surgery a hobby. Under relaxed conditions outside a formal educational setting, 15 first-year medical students, who aspired one day... 13 February 2019
Leidos and Mayo Clinic announced a strategic collaboration. This collaboration will build on the combined strengths of both organizations to accelerate the research, development and market adoption of tools, technologies and therapeutics to make patients and their families more active participants in their care, ultimately helping them live happier,... 12 February 2019
IBM, Aetna, Anthem, Health Care Service Corporation and PNC Bank are working together to design and create a blockchain network to improve transparency and interoperability in the healthcare industry. Blockchain is described as a decentralized ledger of all transactions in a network. Its applications in the healthcare space are... 12 February 2019
More than a dozen healthcare AI companies—including Owkin and Arterys— have been named as top startups in CB Insight’s third annual AI 100 list. This is the second time medical imaging AI company Arterys has been named to the list and the first time for Owkin, an AI medical research company. The... 11 February 2019
VRmagic announced the marketing of a new platform generation of its ophthalmic surgery simulator Eyesi Surgical. In close cooperation with the Swiss company Haag-Streit Diagnostics, the German-based manufacturer has developed a digital microscope head and integrated a new virtual high-resolution stereo microscope in the simulator. For training of retina... 11 February 2019
The latest iteration of this event, the 19th, took place in San Antonio in late January. As the show closed, the organizers announced that membership had increased to 4,200 globally and the current event was the largest on record with 3,146 registered delegates plus 948 exhibit staff. The latter... 8 February 2019
The 3rd Annual VR and Healthcare Symposium, taking place in Tucson, Arizona, from March 7-8, 2019, is the largest global gathering exploring the research, applications and opportunities in virtual, augmented and mixed reality in healthcare. Speakers include: HP, HTC Vive, Samsung, Microsoft, Mayo Clinic, Johnson & Johnson, NIH, Thiel... 8 February 2019
Hodei Technology LLC is partnering with World Housing Solution Inc. and iCoreConnect Inc. to combine its technologies to make available new ADA compliant off-grid portable licensed healthcare facilities (Clinic on Wheels). This new offering will provide an advanced level of connectivity and communication capabilities that offer a continuity of... 8 February 2019
Xavier University of Louisiana and Ochsner Health System teamed up to launch a new Physician Assistant (PA) Program for the inaugural class matriculating in January 2020. The 28-month, full-time graduate program, which leads to a master’s degree in health sciences, is comprised of three semesters of classroom instruction followed... 8 February 2019
HealthcareSource is expanding its learning management suite of education and training resources to include the Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) program and HeartCode Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support eLearning programs. The programs are codeveloped by the American Heart Association and Laerdal Medical and... 7 February 2019