[grow_thumb image=”https://telecareaware.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Lasso.jpg” thumb_width=”125″ /]Connecting the brain with medical devices is Paradromic’s USP. Their brain-machine interface technology is seeking to power prosthetics to assist the blind, deaf, and paralyzed, and in future brain diseases. Their current project is to enable the paralyzed to communicate through a computer in real time. Their seed round of $7 million was led by Arkitekt Ventures and Synergy Ventures. Crunchbase. Mobihealthnews

The US Department of Defense’s replacement of the ancient AHLTA EHR with a Cerner-Leidos system, MHS Genesis, has been having a rough test period at Fairchild Air Force Base, Oak Harbor, and Naval Station Bremerton. No one is happy. Congress will exercise its right under the just-passed HR 4245 for the House Veterans Affairs Committee to review the implementation and to receive quarterly updates. POLITICO’s Morning eHealth for 6/25  Over at the VA, Cerner’s EHR will roll out starting in October in three hospitals in Washington state, to be completed by March 2020. The VA Committee has been asking some tough questions on the feedback that VA doctors have been providing, the fact that VA is under-strength on the modernization and that there is no permanent head of the implementation. POLITICO’s Morning eHealth for 6/27

Medtronic, the 9,000 elephant of healthcare devices, is partnering with AI-based nutrition platform Nutrino, an AI-powered personalized nutrition platform. Nutrino’s FoodPrint Report technology will integrate into Medtronic’s iPro2 myLog app that connects to their continuous glucose monitor. Users log their food by taking a picture of each snack or meal. The patient’s sensor glucose data is integrated with the food data for a Pattern Snapshot report and a FoodPrint report. Nutrino recently gained $8 million in Series A funding. Mobihealthnews

Babylon Health passes the test–the British GP test. Babylon recreated the MRCGP (Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners) exam based on publicly available questions. Its AI system passed with a score of 81 percent. A separate test subjected Babylon and seven primary care physicians to 100 independently-devised symptom sets, and Babylon passed with an 80 score. GPs…it’s coming. Mobihealthnews 

The NHS will be partnering with a repository of private healthcare data, the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN), to integrate their data with NHS Digital. PHIN has committed to reporting 750,000 privately funded hospital “episodes” to NHS Digital each year through the Acute Data Alignment Programme (ADAPt), Mobihealthnews