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MedCity News | January 15, 2020

Although it faced a setback earlier this month when regulators put the kibosh on its deal to acquire a rival company, genetic sequencing equipment maker Illumina will leave the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference with two new partnering deals under its belt. The San Diego-based company and Swiss drug and diagnostics maker Roche said Monday that they had formed a partnership to increase availability of genomic testing to patients with cancers. The 15-year, non-exclusive partnership is meant to broa...

EHRIntelligence | April 15, 2020

Health information exchange (HIE) and interoperability are problems that run rampant throughout the healthcare industry. This issue is especially apparent during a crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the overcrowding of hospitals and patients being forced into unfamiliar health facilities, the need for a strong health data exchange is key. “The pandemic has shattered our common beliefs about the type and scope of health information exchange,” Niam Yaraghi, a fellow ...

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Anumana | December 16, 2022

Anumana, Inc., an AI-driven health technology company and portfolio company of nference, has entered into a multi-year agreement with Pfizer, Inc. for Anumana to develop an artificial intelligence electrocardiogram algorithm designed to enable the early suspicion of cardiac amyloidosis. Anumana will conduct a clinical validation trial and pursue De Novo classification for the algorithm as a Software-as-a-Medical-Device and aims to gain regulatory approval for the algorithm as an SaMD for the ...

PR Newswire | July 06, 2020

Telehealth has exploded as a way to continue patient care during COVID-19, and new research from leading healthcare analytics firm Healthmonix, reveals almost 80% of healthcare practices and hospital systems are using telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Close to 60% of telehealth facilitators fell into one of two categories: Those that indicated over 51% of their practice was now telehealth (28%) and those that appeared to just be entering telehealth and were experiencing a 1-9% increase (3...