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MEDICAL DEVICES

BD | December 22, 2021

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, today announced it has completed the acquisition of privately held Scanwell Health Inc., a leader in smartphone-enabled at-home medical tests.BD collaborated with Scanwell to develop the app used with the recently launched BD Veritor™ At-Home COVID-19 Test, the first at-home COVID-19 test that uniquely uses a smartphone camera and app to capture and interpret results, eliminating the human subjectivity in o...

Healthcare IT News | February 11, 2020

InterSystems announced this week that it released a functionality allowing users of the latest editions of TrakCare to screen and support patients with 2019-nCoV, as the fight against the spread of the outbreak intensifies. The company said customers in China, the UK, the United Arab Emirates and others had already started using it. The functionality is based on guidance from the World Health Organization and links to the Wuhan Coronavirus Global Cases app from the Johns Hopkins Center for Syste...

DIGITAL HEALTHCARE

Linus Health | March 31, 2022

A boston-based digital health firm, Linus Health, focusing on brain health, announced the completion of its purchase of Kinesis Health Technologies, a Dublin-based market leader in assessing physical performance in older persons. The two firms share a commitment to advancing preventive health screening via cutting-edge machine learning and generally accessible digital devices. Given the recognized link between physical and mental function, the acquisition will enhance Linus Health's...

HealthITAnalytics | January 20, 2020

A machine learning algorithm accurately predicted inpatient and emergency department (ED) utilization using only publicly available social determinants of health (SDOH) data, showing that it’s possible to determine patients’ risk of utilization without interacting with the patient or collecting information beyond age, gender, race, and address. That’s the major finding of a study recently published in the American Journal of Managed Care. By now, the healthcare industry is well...