UCSF
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Nvidia Aims to Simplify AI Adoption Process for Cincinnati Children’s, UCSF
Nvidia unveiled new tools designed to make it easier for hospitals to integrate AI models related to medical imaging into their clinical workflows. The tools have been adopted by major cloud infrastructure providers, as well as healthcare providers and AI software companies. Some of these include Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, University of California San Francisco, England’s National Health Service and Qure.ai.
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How UCSF’s accelerator is helping health tech reach more low-income patients
The low-income patient populations who bear disproportionate disease burdens are the same populations who are most likely to face barriers in health technology use, according to Courtney Lyles co-founder of S.O.L.V.E. Health Tech, UCSF’s health equity accelerator. The program she co-founded seeks to address this problem by conducting research with digital health startups about how their products can better serve low-income patients.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Startups, Devices & Diagnostics, Events, Policy
From campus to consumer: Lessons on university tech transfer
A panel at the WSGR Medical Device Conference in San Francisco delved into the specifics around what oftentimes sinks the relationship between companies and colleges and how to create real alignment and understanding between the two stakeholders.
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Cardiogram signs first reimbursement deal with Oscar Health
If Cardiogram’s technology highlights a potential issue of atrial fibrillation or diabetes, patients will be given free access to what the company calls a “gold standard” diagnostic test to confirm the results.
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UC Health expands Apple Health Records access to its 5 million patients
Patients across the entire University of California Health network are now being given the ability to download their medical data onto their Apple smartphones.
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Dignity Health, UCSF Health team on digital patient engagement tool
The two San Francisco-based entities have collaborated to create a digital platform aimed at helping patients navigate their care journey and connect with providers.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
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UCSF-led clinical trial model may present a better way to test new breast cancer drugs
The UCSF-led I-Spy trial is a public-private partnership, which includes the NIH, FDA and pharma companies, and is working to match breast cancer patients with the most effective drugs and rapidly amass evidence to get those drugs (agents) approved.
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Walgreens creates Center for Health & Wellbeing Research
By working with academic partners like Johns Hopkins Medicine, Walgreens has launched the center, which contains a plethora of studies on topics ranging from digital health to HIV.
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Third Rock funnels $45M into Pliant Therapeutics to develop small molecule drugs for fibrosis
It plans to bring its idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis small molecule to the clinic in the next two years.
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Wachter: Digital health is now the norm, but it needs work
“In the last five years, we have gone from a primarily analog business to a primarily digital business,” Dr. Robert Wachter said at AMIA 2015.