WNEP reports: It’s that time of year when nurses’ offices in schools across the country are full of children feeling ill. At Saint Clair Area Elementary School, the school is participating in a program aimed towards keeping its students healthy during flu season with some help from technology. […] FLUency is a health program by…
Category: Healthcare
Retail outlets using telehealth pose significant privacy, policy concerns for health care
Medical Express reports: A significant shift in the health care market is well underway, with various insurers, medical groups, vendors and supply chains pursuing acquisitions and mergers to expand their services, and retail outlets, from Walmart and Amazon to Rite-Aid and Albertsons, delivering health care services, including telehealth. But do current policies adequately protect patient…
Big Tech Expands Footprint in Health
Melanie Evans and Laura Stevens report: Amazon.com Inc. is starting to sell software that mines patient medical records for information doctors and hospitals could use to improve treatment and cut costs. The move is the latest by a big technology company into health care, an industry where it sees opportunities for growth. Read more on WSJ.
NYU to release large-scale MRI dataset for AI project with Facebook
Danielle Brown reports: NYU Langone Health’s Department of Radiology is planning to release a large-scale dataset that includes more than 1.5 million MRI knee images in an ongoing effort to make MRI scans faster with AI. The medical center announced its dataset release plans on Nov. 25 during the annual RSNA meeting in Chicago. The release is…