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Philips Launches Artificial Intelligence Platform for Healthcare
Royal Philips has launched HealthSuite Insights, including the Insights Marketplace, to support the advancing adoption of analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) in key healthcare domains. HealthSuite Insights, which made its debut at the 2018 HIMSS Conference & Exhibition (HIMSS18), gives data scientists, software developers, clinicians and healthcare providers access to advanced analytic capabilities to curate and analyze healthcare data, and offers them tools and technologies to build, maintain, deploy and scale AI-based solutions. Insights Marketplace will provide the healthcare industry's first ecosystem where curated AI assets from Philips and others are readily available for license. More...12 Mar 2018

Philips Partners with Hologic to Provide Solutions for Women's Health
Royal Philips has entered into a partnership with Hologic to offer care professionals integrated solutions comprising diagnostic imaging modalities, advanced informatics and services for screening, diagnosis and treatment of women, worldwide. More...12 Mar 2018
Machine Learning Shows Promise for Supporting Medical Decisions
A number of studies presented at the 67th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology demonstrated how machine learning can be used to accurately predict clinical outcomes in patients with known or potential heart problems. The findings of these studies indicate that machine learning can usher in a new era in digital health care tools capable of enhancing health care delivery by aiding routine processes and helping physicians to assess the patients’ risk. More...01 Mar 2018
AI Algorithm Could Help Fight TB and Gonorrhea
Researchers from the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California have created an algorithm that could help public health programs better locate and treat people with undiagnosed infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, malaria and gonorrhea. More...27 Feb 2018
Healthcare Augmented Reality And Virtual Reality Markets to Reach USD 5 Billion by 2023
The augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in the healthcare market was valued at USD 769.2 million in 2017 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 36.6% during the forecast period to reach USD 5 billion by 2023. The market growth will be driven by increasing penetration of connected devices in the healthcare sector, rising investment in healthcare AR and VR, and growing need to reduce healthcare costs. However, the lack of competence in the deployment of AR and VR solutions, and lack of expertise among medical practitioners to adopt new technologies are the major restraints for market growth. More...08 Feb 2018

Elekta Collaborates with IBM Watson Health to Bring AI to Oncology
Elekta is collaborating with IBM Watson Health to offer Watson for Oncology with its cancer care solutions. Beginning in early 2018, Elekta will sell Watson for Oncology as a clinical decision support solution, paired within its digital cancer care solutions, including the MOSAIQ Oncology Information System. More...08 Feb 2018
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