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Modern Healthcare | A group of 41 leading healthcare organizations will work together to improve the quality of medical diagnoses. The coalition, called ACT for Better Diagnosis, will focus on identifying the main causes of diagnostic errors and working toward solutions.
Sep 14, 2018
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Diagnostics World | Researchers and gamers recently collaborated, using the multiplayer online game, EVE Online, to gain a more granular understanding of patterns of proteins arranged within the body’s cells.
Sep 14, 2018
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Diagnostics World | During a speech given today, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced that the agency is assisting Congress in crafting new legislation that will help shape a modern framework whereby diagnostics can be relied on as accurate and safe.
Sep 13, 2018
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Diagnostics World | New research is revealing that it may be possible to diagnose malaria in an unexpected way, and the hope is that it could lead to a non-invasive, breath-based field test with advantages over existing detection methods.
Sep 12, 2018
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Diagnostics World News Brief | Healcerion has announced the newly-launched SONON 300L wireless, handheld ultrasound device, which accelerates diagnosis, gains deeper insight into patient health, and provides a richer patient experience, while increasing revenue through the addition of this service to patients.
Sep 11, 2018
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IEEE Spectrum | A new method of identifying unique genetic changes in tumors could lead to more precise cancer treatments.
Sep 6, 2018
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Diagnostics World | Despite months of speculation about a potential human backlash against artificial intelligence, AI-driven healthcare technologies are already being quietly embraced in real-world healthcare settings around the country.
Sep 6, 2018
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Wall Street Journal | Theranos, the blood-testing company accused of perpetrating Silicon Valley's biggest fraud, will formally dissolve. The move comes after prosecutors filed criminal charges against founder Elizabeth Holmes.
Sep 5, 2018
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Diagnostics World | From point-of-care decision support tools to targeted tumor sequencing tests, artificial intelligence is causing some shakeups within the guarded healthcare industry.
Sep 4, 2018
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CommonHealth | A big-data informatician writes about a case that marked the beginning of a long education on the value of small data – that is, the clinical impact of a small number of reliable measurements on a single patient.
Aug 30, 2018
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Diagnostics World | The first day of the Health:Further festival featured prominent figures in healthcare as they focused on listening to the patient and their story, sometimes in creative ways.
Aug 29, 2018
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Diagnostics World | August featured news, products, and partnerships from around the diagnostics community from numerous companies, universities, and organizations, including Exact Sciences, Fuzionaire Dx, Splice Machine, and more.
Aug 29, 2018
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Diagnostics World Brief | This week, the Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) published consensus, evidence-based recommendations to aid clinical laboratory professionals with the management of most Chronic Myeloid Neoplasms (CMNs) and development of high-throughput pan-myeloid sequencing testing panels.
Aug 23, 2018
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Diagnostics World News Brief | The publication of an investigator-initiated study from Duke University and The Mayo Clinic demonstrated that despite the widespread use of formula-derived estimates of plasma volume in heart failure patients, these methods are inaccurate compared to measured volume using the Daxor’s BVA-100 blood volume measurement diagnostic.
Aug 22, 2018