clinical decision support

Healthcare provider sitting next to a patient in the clinical setting
By  Jessica Hagen 11:11 am July 11, 2024
Los Angeles-based clinical decision software company Regard announced it closed a $61 million Series B round led by Oak HC/FT. Cedars-Sinai Health Ventures and existing investors Calibrate Ventures, Techstars and TenOneTen Ventures participated in the round.  WHAT IT DOES Regard offers a clinical support tool that utilizes AI to evaluate patient history, generate clinical decisions and...
Healthcare provider looking at X-rays on a wall
By  Jessica Hagen 06:01 pm March 19, 2024
Google made several announcements during its Check Up event on Tuesday, including the release of its new MedLM for Chest X-ray, advancements in personalization at Fitbit Labs and the release of its Skin Condition Image Network (SCIN).  Dr. Karen DeSalvo, Google Health's chief health officer, kicked off The Check Up event by highlighting the increased use of AI in healthcare. "We are at an...
three people walking together in a hospital
By  Trevor Dermody 01:41 pm March 19, 2024
Phoenix-based healthcare provider Banner Health expanded its partnership with Los Angeles-based clinical decision software company Regard, bringing clinical support decision-making to clinicians across Banner Health hospitals.    Regard utilizes algorithms and artificial intelligence to generate clinical decisions, documentation and facilitate clinician-to-clinician communications. Through the...
Healthcare provider wearing glasses and a stethoscope while looking to the side
By  Nathan Eddy 12:01 pm March 6, 2024
Health system Mass General Brigham is teaming up with clinical decision support company AvoMD to help rapid response teams identify patients at risk of fatal respiratory or cardiac arrest outside of the ICU. AvoMD transforms PDF guidelines and static decision-tree protocols into actionable digital tools that can be made available in the clinical workflow via electronic health record (EHR)...
Healthcare provider wearing a lab coat with a stethoscope around their neck while looking at a computer
By  Nathan Eddy 11:12 am October 6, 2023
Global clinical technology company Wolters Kluwer Health announced it added generative AI capabilities to aid collaboration for its clinical decision support (CDS) solution UpToDate. The platform, designed to offer evidence-based CDS, is viewed 1.7 million times a day by healthcare teams globally to help provide better care, Greg Samios, president and CEO of clinical effectiveness at Wolters...
Healthcare provider standing in a hospital room wearing a pink stethoscope while holding a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 12:42 pm August 24, 2023
Real-world data platform Atropos Health announced it appointed a life science advisory board and moved into the life sciences sector, offering AI innovations, data evaluation, evidence generation and analytics augmentation.  Atropos' app helps physicians access real-world evidence to guide clinical decisions and research.  The California-based company also offers its Green Button for clinical...
Surgeons analysing a brain scan.
By  Adam Ang 01:43 am July 27, 2023
Researchers from the faculties of Engineering and IT at Monash University have come up with an AI algorithm that can judge another AI algorithm's annotation or label in a medical scan, mimicking the process of seeking a second opinion. FINDINGS They created a dual-view AI system where one part labels medical images while the other judges the quality of the AI-generated labelled scans by...
A doctor explaining a patient's findings from a reading by the Us2.v1 software.
By  Adam Ang 01:20 am June 9, 2022
Singapore-based medtech company Us2.ai is expanding to Europe after receiving a CE mark for its automated decision support tool for echocardiography. The Us2.v1 software is an automated clinical workflow solution that identifies and analyses two-dimensional and Doppler echo images for the diagnosis, prediction, and prognosis of heart disease and pulmonary hypertension. The company claims that its...
Artrya Salix AI decision support tool for diagnosing coronary heart disease
By  Adam Ang 10:41 pm May 8, 2022
Australia-listed medtech firm Artrya has disclosed that its subsidiary in the United States has signed a clinical partnership with Alabama-based Huntsville Heart Center. According to a media release, an initial agreement between the companies involves a study to determine the efficacy of Artrya's AI technology for diagnosing coronary heart disease. WHY IT MATTERS The Artrya Salix is an AI-powered...
Doctors analysing a CT scan
By  Adam Ang 10:40 pm May 2, 2022
Fujitsu has teamed up with Southern Tohoku General Hospital in Fukushima, Japan for a joint research project to come up with an AI solution that detects pancreatic cancer from CT scans at an early stage. According to a press release, the project will use Fujitsu's AI tech, which has been trained with over 300 anonymised CT images of pancreatic cancer patients at Southern Tohoku General Hospital,...