Mount Sinai

New York-based Mount Sinai Health System will deploy home-based care and an outpatient rehab program using MindMaze's tools.

This week's top stories include UnitedHealthcare re-examining a policy that allows it to deny ER claims, Apple unveiling walking stability assessments for the iPhone, and Mount Sinai catering to patients with limited English proficiency.

Image exchange is moving toward image-enabled personal health records, say Dr. David Mendelson, vice chair of radiology IT at Mount Sinai, and Dave Cassel, executive director of Carequality.

New research suggests that the wearable could help identify COVID-19 cases up to seven days before a positive diagnostic test.

Also: Blood glucose monitoring could be coming to next-gen consumer smartwatches; new incubator looking for disruptive health tech startups.

The roughly three-year-old company says it now has a post-money valuation over $1 billion.

Accel and 8VC headlined the Mount Sinai-affiliated startup's Series A. 

The Hamilton and Amabel James Center for Artificial Intelligence and Human Health will focus on genomics, modeling and prediction of novel therapies and enhanced imaging. 

Mount Sinai Chief Innovation Officer Dr. Ashish Atreja explains how the system's patient design group flipped the metrics of quality completely around to reset humanity in patients' lives.