AI: Not what you think
AI isn’t what you think. In 2017, it may still be a sophisticated form of computing, but it’s already making substantial impacts on healthcare—like shaving a million minutes in wait time at a single hospital, surfacing high-risk imaging results to radiologists quickly, and monitoring disease outbreaks. Here’s what six execs expect from AI moving forward.
Headlines
Update On Apple's Glucose Sensor Pursuits: Feasibility Trials, A Secret Team
Tweet | CNBC
Hospitals Are Prescribing Home Surveillance To Save Lives
Tweet | Vice
Can Consumers Be Smart Healthcare Shoppers? (Yes)
Tweet | The Wall Street Journal
Virtual Reality Takes Doctors On A 'Fantastic Voyage' Inside Hearts
Tweet | STAT
Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal: How US Healthcare Became Big Business
Tweet | NPR
FDA, Industry Fear Wave Of Medical-Device Hacks
Tweet | The Hill
Rock Health in the News
Tackling Weight Loss And Diabetes With Video Chats (Omada, Virta)
Tweet | The New York Times
Google Glass' Surprising Success (Augmedix)
Tweet | CNBC
Funding
- Drug discount app Blink Health got $90M to help tackle high prescription drug prices
- Spine instability diagnostic company Ortho Kinematics closed an $18.6M round
- Healthcare cloud services provider ClearDATA raised $12M
- Simple Contacts raised $8M to make it easier to get your contact lens prescriptions refilled
- Sansoro Health closed $5.2M for their EHR API service
- Incontinence and pelvic floor therapy company Consortia Health raised $2M