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ARPA-H is launching a program to deliver acute care in rural settings via a multipurpose delivery platform "that is as convenient as telehealth."

Dr. Benoit Desjardins, professor of radiology at Penn Medicine, describes how automation and AI-powered analysis are transforming clinical imaging workflows.  

Also, Konkuk University Hospital is joining the latest R&D initiative in South Korea to further enhance Alzheimer's diagnosis through AI.

"Finding out the patient is high-risk after they are diagnosed with cancer is too late," says Dr. Eric Brown, surgical oncologist and breast multidisciplinary team co-lead.

Techsomed's ultrasound-based liver ablation software can eliminate the guesswork typically associated with thermal ablation therapy.

The application, known as iStar, was created by Perelman School of Medicine researchers to give clinicians more insights into gene activities in medical images and, potentially, help them diagnose cancers that might have otherwise been undetected.

Robotic-assisted bronchoscopy enables doctors to perform minimally invasive biopsies in distant areas of the lungs, including small nodules in the peripheral regions.

A randomized clinical vignette survey across more than a dozen states, with hospitalists, NPs and PAs taking part, evaluated systematically biased algorithms and how clinicians make decisions with image-based AI guides.

Also, FPT has closed a deal to exclusively distribute Nipro's blood glucose monitors in Vietnam.

Also, two hospitals under SingHealth have started adopting Lunit's AI chest X-ray solution.