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Houston Methodist enters the metaverse with launch of new MITIEverse app

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Exploring the heart from the inside out is now possible with a new app from Houston Methodist. Medical and scientific learners can access hands-on practice, remote assistance from experienced clinicians and more within the MITIEverse, a new app devoted to health care education, training and innovation. Built in partnership with FundamentalVR, the app transports the user into customizable showcase rooms, surgical simulations and lectures from Houston Methodist faculty and collaborators from across the world.

Study Finds the Addition of Haptics to VR Training Substantially Improves Student Outcomes

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The Annals of Medicine and Surgery has published the results of a trial, testing the promises of haptics integrated VR surgical simulations. Conducted by Drs Gani, Pickering, Sabri, Ellis and Pucher, the trial aimed to evaluate the educational impact of integrated haptic feedback in an immersive VR bone drilling simulation on the real-world benchtop performance of a cohort of surgeons in a double-blinded randomised controlled trial. The trial demonstrated a significant improvement in trainees’ learning curve and significantly better surgical outcomes, supporting the role of haptic integration in VR simulation models.

NIH-Funded Team Develops Method to Identify Future SARS-CoV-2 Mutations that Could Affect Rapid Antigen Test Performance

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A research team funded by the National Institutes of Health has shown that commercially available rapid antigen tests can detect past and present variants of concern and has identified potential mutations that may impact test performance in the future. As new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus continue to emerge, concerns have been raised about the performance of rapid antigen tests.

Stem Cell-Gene Therapy Shows Promise in ALS Safety Trial

Cedars-Sinai investigators have developed an investigational therapy using support cells and a protective protein that can be delivered past the blood-brain barrier. This combined stem cell and gene therapy can potentially protect diseased motor neurons in the spinal cord of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a fatal neurological disorder known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Banner Health Study Aims to Understand, Improve Diversity in Alzheimer’s Research

A new study led by Banner Alzheimer’s Institute and two major universities have identified key factors for joining participant recruitment registries for Alzheimer’s disease studies and clinical trials and how these factors differ by race, ethnicity, and gender.

Magnetic Stimulation Therapy Can Help Patients with Chronic Depression

Isolation, stress and fear related to the COVID-19 pandemic has fueled the need for more mental health services. For people experiencing persistent, severe depression, magnetic energy may offer some relief. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a noninvasive treatment that uses electromagnetic pulses to stimulate areas of the brain that are underactive in depressed patients.

Medicare ACO Participation Flat in 2022 NAACOS Issues a Call to Action for CMS to Spur ACO Growth

The number of accountable care organizations (ACOs) in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), the country’s dominant value-based payment program, only modestly increased to 483 in 2022.

EHI Announces RFP to Launch Program Recommended in Consumer Privacy Framework

Executives for Health Innovation (EHI) is coordinating the selection of an organization to implement a key recommendation proposed in the Consumer Privacy Framework for Health Data. The identified organization will implement and house a self-regulatory program to govern compliance with the consumer health data-use standards contained within the Framework.

AMA Opens Doors for Health Tech Innovators with CPT Developer Program

The American Medical Association (AMA) announced the launch of a new developer program to help creators of health technology and services easily leverage AMA-published content from Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), the nation’s leading medical terminology for describing and coding health care procedures and services.

Study Shows How Ovarian Cancer Starts in High-Risk Women

Stem cell scientists have revealed the origins of a common ovarian cancer by modeling fallopian tube tissues, allowing them to characterize how a genetic mutation puts women at high risk for this cancer.

Could EKGs Help Doctors Use AI to Detect Pulmonary Embolisms?

Pulmonary embolisms are dangerous, lung-clogging blot clots. In a pilot study, scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai showed for the first time that artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can detect signs of these clots in electrocardiograms (EKGs), a finding which may one day help doctors with screening.

AION Labs, Powered by BioMed X, Launches Second Global Call for Application: Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Trial Readiness of Drug Candidates

AION Labs, a first-of-its-kind innovation lab spearheading the adoption of AI technologies and computational science to solve therapeutic challenges, and German independent research institute BioMed X, announced the launch of the second global call for application to identify biomedical scientists and inventors to form a new startup at AION Labs’ headquarters in Rehovot, Israel.

$20 Million Grant Will Help Johns Hopkins Develop Technologies for Healthy Aging

Johns Hopkins has received a $20 million grant from the National Institute on Aging that will spur the development of artificial intelligence devices (AI) to improve the health of older adults and help them live independently for longer — a relatively untapped use of this technology.

New Treatment Approach for Advanced Coronary Artery Disease Leads to Improved Outcomes

Use of a novel technique called the quantitative flow ratio (QFR) to precisely identify and measure the severity of artery blockages can lead to significantly improved outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to a new study done in collaboration with Mount Sinai faculty.

PCORI Adopts National Priorities for Health

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors adopted five National Priorities for Health, which serve as ambitious long-term goals to guide PCORI’s funding of patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) and other engagement, dissemination and implementation, and research infrastructure initiatives.

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