...on a summer Friday when corporate news goes to hide till the following week) is brief in content despite its eight pages, half of which is devoted to the press release. It delivers the following: The core operating subsidiaries of Babylon will be transferred to MindMaze. MindMaze is a private Lausanne, Switzerland-headquartered healthcare company in neuroscience and digital neurotherapeutics in areas such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease. This apparently covers the ‘Go-Forward Business” mentioned in May. “The Proposed Transaction provides for a new capital structure and a reduction of pro forma company debt, and is... Continue Reading
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AI news: GE HealthCare’s 510(k) for Precision DL (+ GE stake sale), Samsung adopts care.ai for in-facility patient monitoring, Mayo Clinic-Google Cloud generative AI, Wolters Kluwer buys Invistics for drug diversion detection
GEHC receives FDA clearance for Precision DL (deep learning) image processing software. It improves image quality on GEHC’s PET/CT, Omni Legend, which enables faster scanning time and improved small lesion detection. Deep learning as part of AI is a subset of machine learning (ML), which uses a neural network with three or more layers that simulates the human brain in processing and ‘learning’ from large amounts of data and drawing judgments from it. (See our recent Perspectives for a more nuanced explanation.) According to GEHC’s presentation brochure on Precision DL, it is trained with thousands of PET images made using... Continue Reading
Perspectives: How AI and ML can accelerate the growth of telemedicine across the globe
...X-ray images) from one place to another; telepathology, which uses ICT to transmit digitized pathological results; and teledermatology, which uses ICT to transmit medical information about skin conditions. AI has been progressively implied in the field of telemedicine. AI deals with machine learning (ML) that discloses complex connections that are hard to figure out in an equation. In a way that is similar to the human brain and neural networks that encrypt data using an enormous number of interconnected neurons, ML systems can approach difficult problem-solving in the same way that a doctor might do by carefully analyzing the available... Continue Reading
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) found in over 90% of deceased NFL player brains: BU study
...in their final years, often in middle age and younger, that characterize CTE. In the past five years, CTE has been increasingly recognized as a risk in contact sports and in repeated concussion. According to the release, “In October 2022, the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), updated their position on what causes CTE: “CTE is a delayed neurodegenerative disorder that was initially identified in postmortem brains and, research-to-date suggests, is caused in part by repeated traumatic brain injuries.” Research is ongoing on whether sub-concussive head trauma, easy to... Continue Reading
News roundup: GoodRx pays $1.5M to FTC on Meta Pixel use, ATA concerns on Covid PHE end, defending Livongo sale to Teladoc, Philips lays off 18K, Amazon health layoffs–and big ’22 loss, Ireland HSE digital head quits, Matt Hancock assaulted on Tube
...visiting professor at the University of Bath and a professor of innovation at Maynooth University. Irish Times 16 Jan, 25 Jan And former Health Secretary Matt Hancock cannot catch a break. First, he was suspended from the Conservative Party in November, having decided that traveling to Australia for several weeks to appear in a reality show was more important–while he was Conservative Whip and Commons was still sitting. Now as an independent representing West Suffolk, in December he announced he will not stand for re-election next year. The insult upon injury was being assaulted last month by a 61-year-old man... Continue Reading
Rounding out week: Oracle Health engineering head departs; Hive ransomware KO’d by DOJ; Google sued by DOJ on antitrust, lays off another 12,000; Pearl and Precision Neuro raise, Enabled Healthcare ADAPT grant
...anticipated $20 million in a line of credit. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz’s Growth Fund and Viking Global Investors. Pearl is a developer of services and software for independent providers to enable them to better participate in value-based care through consolidating healthcare data and then using that information to create personalized patient care plans. Release, MedCityNews Precision Neuroscience raised $41 million, also in a Series B. Precision is another brain-computer interface technology like Synchron [TTA 17 Dec 22], in this case focused on treatment of neurological illnesses and events such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, and dementia. Leading... Continue Reading
Using wearables to monitor biomarkers related to neuropsychiatric symptoms post-traumatic event
Tracking biomarkers related to post-traumatic outcomes via a wrist-worn wearable. A January study published in JAMA Psychiatry (full text) monitored 2,021 participants who experienced traumatic stress exposure, mainly from car accidents but also physical assault, sexual assault, serious falls, and a mass casualty incident. The Advancing Understanding of Recovery After Trauma (AURORA) study examined adverse posttraumatic neuropsychiatric outcomes after traumatic stress exposure, especially among socioeconomically disadvantaged patients. Qualifying patients used the (Alphabet) Verily Life Sciences’ Study Watch for a minimum of 21 hours a day over the eight-week tracking period, starting with screening and qualification in the emergency department (ED).... Continue Reading
Rounding up fundings and startups: Override(ing) pain; brainy Synchron and In-Med Prognostics; Click off migraine; Cardiosense and CHF detection
...via the VA’s opioid treatment program. Seed funding of $3.5 million was raised from 7wireVentures and Martin Ventures, joined by SignalFire and Confluent Health. Prior to coming out of stealth, Override used the funding to purchase pain management coach Take Courage Coaching. Something very needed for the estimated 50 million Americans with chronic pain. Hat tip to HISTalk 16 Dec. Recent fundings rounded up concentrate on the brain and heart: The largest is brain-computer interface (BCI) developer Synchron with an oversubscribed Series C of $75 million. Lead investor was ARCH Venture Partners, joined by heavy hitters such as Gates Frontier,... Continue Reading
Week-end wrapup: CVS plans to expand primary care, home health; Cera Care raises £264M; Linus Health’s AI enabled dementia screener, Cognito’s cognitive therapy slows brain atrophy
...the DCTclock takes about 10 minutes. Release, FierceBiotech Cognito Therapeutics is still in the investigational stage with its GammaSense headset which delivers sound and light therapy to cognitively impaired patients. The sensory stimulation evokes gamma oscillations in the brain that reduces neurodegeneration and brain atrophy. Their paper delivered last week at the Alzheimers Association conference tracked subjects who used the headset one hour per day for six months. The therapy reduced white matter shrinkage to about 0.4%, compared to a historical tracking of about 2%. An earlier study also showed slowdowns in the decline of memory and cognitive function. FierceBiotech... Continue Reading
‘Bionic clothing’ to aid mobility tested for foot drop in MS patients
A combination of smart clothing and an exoskeleton to aid those with mobility issues. The Neural Sleeve uses functional electronic stimulation (FES) to aid walking in those with multiple sclerosis (MS) and similar conditions. In a small clinical trial, it reduced foot drop, which is the inability to dorsiflex, or raise the front part of the foot, due to weakness or paralysis of the muscles in the front of one’s lower leg. This is seen in the gait of those with MS, traumatic brain injury, stroke, spinal cord injury, and cerebral palsy. (This Editor also knew someone for whom leg... Continue Reading
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