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The pandemic has brought once-in-a-century challenges to insurance underwriters when they had to predict patient risk for 2021 in the summer of 2020. (WrightStudios/Shutterstock)
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a pivotal time for advances in artificial intelligence as organizations use the technology to drive research, find new treatments and analyze patient data.
San Mateo, California-based Lumiata is ramping up its efforts to use AI to help identify underwriting risks during the crisis. The company just got a big infusion of cash to help fuel its work.
Lumiata raised $14 million in a series B funding round backed by early-stage venture capital firm Defy.vc, venture capital fund AllegisNL Capital, Khosla Ventures and Blue Venture Fund, the venture capital arm of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
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We have a social responsibility to recognize and call it out, especially amidst COVID-19 vaccinations.
Here s how to do so.
Lior Brimberg, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research.
This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
We have all seen the false headlines stating that vaccinations cause autism. This very loud and misinformed fake news has become the fuel for the ever-growing firestorm of the anti-vaccination movement and disbelief around vaccines in general. That misinformation has now dangerously spread to the discussion of the impending COVID-19 vaccine.
Ashikari Breast Center joins Northwell Health Physician Partners
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Two of Westchester’s leading breast surgeons, Andrew Ashikari, MD, FACS, and Pond Kelemen, MD, FACS of The Ashikari Breast Center in Dobbs Ferry and Cortlandt Manor, NY, have joined Northwell Health Physician Partners (NHPP) effective, Monday January 4th. They will now be accepting patients at two state-of-the-art locations: the Breast Care Center at Northern Westchester Hospital (NWH) in Mount Kisco and NHPP Breast Surgery at Phelps Hospital in Sleepy Hollow. Drs. Ashikari and Kelemen, leading experts in compassionate breast surgery, join a multidisciplinary team at the NWH Breast Care Center that offers outstanding medical services, personized care and an exceptional patient experience.
Northwell Launches New App Through Apple to Deliver Teaching Tips to Trainees and Faculty
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NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Northwell Health’s Office of Academic Affairs announced today that it has launched its Just in Time Teaching Tools app to aid in the advancement of medical education knowledge and teaching skills of students, trainees and faculty. The app is now available in the Apple Store.
The new app uses the Just-in-time teaching (JiTT) model – a pedagogical approach that involves close interaction between instructors and their classrooms – to better provide timely and relevant teaching tips to trainees and faculty who need to actively engage with their instructors, specifically for those in the patient care setting.