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  • HCA Meets “Quadruple Aim” With AI-powered Cancer App

    Diagnostics World | HCA and Digital Reasoning have developed an AI-powered cancer app that reads pathology and radiology reports in real time, and then helps ensure care is rendered quickly and in the best prioritized order.

    Oct 9, 2018
  • Combining The Hive Mind With AI For Better Diagnoses

    Diagnostics World | A recent study, using technology developed by Unanimous AI, shows that a handful of doctors, connected by algorithms, achieved greater diagnostic accuracy for pneumonia than machine learning alone.

    Oct 3, 2018
  • Nobel Prize In Medicine Awarded To Two Cancer Researchers For Immune System Breakthrough

    STAT | The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to James Allison of MD Anderson Cancer Center and Tasuku Honjo of Kyoto University “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation,” the Nobel committee announced.

    Oct 1, 2018
  • Rady Children’s Launches “Project Baby Bear”

    Diagnostics World News Brief | Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego is launching Project Baby Bear, the first California State funded program to offer rapid whole genome sequencing for critically-ill newborns.

    Sep 27, 2018
  • uBiome, AliveCor, Ariel Precision Medicine, And More: News From September 2018

    Diagnostics World | September featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including uBiome, AliveCor, Ariel Precision Medicine, and more.

    Sep 26, 2018
  • Proscia Closes $8.3M Series A Round Of Financing

    Diagnostics World News Brief | Proscia has closed an $8.3 million round of Series A financing from a group of East and West Coast venture capital firms. Proceeds from the financing will be used to expand the deployment of the company’s digital pathology software and accelerate the use of AI applications to drive accuracy and efficiency in cancer diagnosis.

    Sep 26, 2018
  • The NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Network Expands

    Diagnostics World News Brief | Grants to improve and accelerate the diagnosis of rare and undiagnosed conditions were made to academic medical centers across the nation Monday. Five new clinical sites, a new metabolomics core, and increased model organism capabilities were among additions.

    Sep 25, 2018
  • What Facial Analysis Can Do For Rare Disease Diagnosis

    Diagnostics World | Can an artificial intelligence platform be trained to do expert phenotypic evaluation and suggest diagnoses for rare, genetic diseases based on a photo? FDNA believes so.

    Sep 25, 2018
  • Teach Medical Students To Use Diagnostic Tools With Their Patients

    STAT | More and more doctors are using diagnostic decision tools in collaboration with their patients. Medical students need to learn that skill.

    Sep 24, 2018
  • Quadrant Awarded $2 Million NIH Grant For Novel Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnostic Assay

    Diagnostics World News Brief | Quadrant has been awarded a $2 million Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer grant from the National Institutes of Health for the refinement and commercialization of an epigenetic autism spectrum disorder diagnostic test.

    Sep 21, 2018