Core Technologies

The platform analyses millions of data points from a patient's MRI and delivers insights to neurosurgeons before and during brain surgery.

This week's top stories include the VA flagging unreliable IT infrastructure cost estimates for its EHR modernization program, a new Alzheimer's drug that could cost Medicaid more than $2 billion, and Amazon using radar for monitoring sleep.

Also, British medtech company Smith+Nephew launches its robotics platform in India.

The cloud is ready for healthcare, says James Millington, director of Healthcare Industry Marketing at VMware, so healthcare organizations are moving their data centers from on-premises to the cloud.

The company claims that the testing solution checks the spectral signature of a virus from a nasal or mouthwash sample to detect COVID-19 within seconds.

Aceso's booking platform now enables patients and referrers to make complex diagnostic appointments.

The new API is available for governments, providers and authorized third parties in the U.S. 

The new venture is backed by a $34 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). 

Once again the developer spotlighted a number of new health features for the iPhone and Apple Watch.

Owensboro Health CMIO Dr. David Danhauer describes how he devised a safety initiative that integrated NLP with EHR work queues – helping review and track clinical notes to ensure radiology reports are capturing incidental findings.