Cedars-Sinai Newsroom (Accelerator,Technology)
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2023
October
10,
2023
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai is expanding virtual healthcare for patients in California through a new mobile app that allows individuals to quickly and easily access Cedars-Sinai experts for sick, chronic, and preventive care.Through the new virtual healthcare optio...
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October
05,
2023
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Brennan Spiegel, MD, professor of Medicine and director of Health Services Research at Cedars-Sinai, has been named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Extended Reality (JMXR), the world’s first peer-reviewed publication focused on extended rea...
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September
13,
2023
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS, director of Health Services Research and founding director of the Master’s Degree Program in Health Delivery Science at Cedars-Sinai, has been named the inaugural holder of the George and Dorothy Gourrich Chair in Digital H...
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September
11,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
As the use of artificial intelligence continues to rapidly evolve, Cedars-Sinai is tapping its own experts to create and deploy AI-driven solutions to real-time healthcare challenges. Through new “Idea-thons,” frontline clinical and administrative l...
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August
14,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Artificial intelligence (AI) is capturing the public imagination as the pace of innovation accelerates sharply and easy-to-use AI tools offer new possibilities to transform whole industries.Building on a legacy of innovation, Cedars-Sinai is harnessi...
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July
11,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is welcoming 10 health-tech companies from around the world to its ninth accelerator class. The businesses are building a variety of healthcare solutions—from monitoring devices for sepsis, heart failure and stroke, to vi...
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June
05,
2023
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11:28 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Following a nationwide search, Cedars-Sinai has appointed James Jones, MHA, MSN, NEA-BC, RN-BC, as the inaugural chief nursing informatics officer.Jones will be responsible for the integration of nursing and healthcare informatics across all care set...
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April
10,
2023
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Virtual reality (VR) is not just for gaming and entertainment. As it turns out, extended reality (XR) technologies can help support human health and the wellbeing of patients who suffer from a variety of debilitating and chronic conditions, including...
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2022
August
23,
2022
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07:04 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is welcoming 10 health-tech startup companies from around the world to its eighth accelerator class. The companies are building a variety of healthcare solutions—from culturally-appropriate digital mental health services ...
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April
18,
2022
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08:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Following an extensive national search, Craig Kwiatkowski, PharmD, has been named senior vice president of Enterprise Information Services, and chief information officer at Cedars-Sinai. An experienced information technology professional, Kwiatkowski...
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February
23,
2022
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08:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Physician-scientists in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have created an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can effectively identify and distinguish between two life-threatening heart conditions that are often easy to miss: hypertrophic ...
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2021
November
18,
2021
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06:01 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A new application being used in the Cedars-Sinai Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is going a long way towards easing the anxiety of parents with newborns in the NICU.The application is linked to a camera called NICVIEW and is installed near the crib of e...
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September
27,
2021
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10:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is welcoming eight health-tech companies from across the United States to its seventh accelerator class. The companies are creating solutions for a wide variety of healthcare challenges—from facilitating parts of the pati...
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April
06,
2021
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13:25 PM
America/Los_Angeles
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented innovation on the part of healthcare providers everywhere who rose to meet the challenges of the past year.And the next generation of healthcare innovations will be on display during the Cedars-Sinai Ac...
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February
18,
2021
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator has selected and welcomed seven startup health-tech companies from across the United States to its newest class.This year's startup companies are creating high-tech solutions to a wide variety of healthcare challenges–fro...
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2020
August
12,
2020
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
When the novel coronavirus started spreading across the U.S., hospital leaders were faced with a unique challenge: How could they accurately forecast the number of patients who would need hospitalization when no one knew what to expect from this new ...
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2019
December
03,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Becker’s Hospital Review recently interviewed Anne Wellington, managing director of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, which helps entrepreneurs bring their innovative technology products to market.
The three-month program provides companies with $100,...
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November
29,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Modern Healthcare recently interviewed Darren Dworkin, chief information officer and senior vice president of Enterprise Information Services at Cedars-Sinai, about earning the health system Most Wired’s Level 10 certification in 2019 and a Superior ...
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September
16,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
If you can imagine healthcare tech entrepreneurs promoting their firms with pitches as polished as the best of those on TV’s Shark Tank, you’ve got an idea of what Cedars-Sinai’s Demo Day is about.Demo Day marks the culmination of a three-month progr...
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July
17,
2019
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07:28 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Parentology, an online website designed for parenting in the digital age, recently interviewed Rebecca Hedrick, MD, a psychiatrist at Cedars-Sinai in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, about how social media can affect children's mental ...
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July
01,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is welcoming 11 health-tech companies from across the United States and Europe to its newest accelerator class. The companies are innovating solutions for a wide variety of healthcare challenges—from the way hospitals cou...
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March
07,
2019
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Modern Healthcare recently featured an article about the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator and one of its newest successes with Aiva, the world's first patient-centered voice assistant platform for hospitals.
As the article explains, it wasn't too long ag...
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January
09,
2019
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A special edition of National Geographic on "The Future of Medicine" highlights the innovative stem-cell science of Cedars-Sinai, showing how investigators are seeking to use stem cells and Organ-Chips to tailor personalized treatments for individual...
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2018
October
11,
2018
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The eight health-tech companies that completed Cedars-Sinai Accelerator's fourth class have announced new contracts and partnerships to bring their leading-edge technologies to health systems and their patients.The companies, chosen from more than 40...
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August
23,
2018
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16:21 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti highlighted Cedars-Sinai's groundwater conservation program Thursday, citing it as an example of innovative conservation as the city seeks to reduce water consumption.The project has slashed the medical center's use of...
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August
15,
2018
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
When physicians follow computer alerts embedded in electronic health records, their hospitalized patients experience fewer complications and lower costs, leave the hospital sooner and are less likely to be readmitted, according to a study of inpatien...
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July
24,
2018
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12:08 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Fitness trackers can be valuable tools for assessing the quality of life and daily functioning of cancer patients during treatment, a new study has found. The trackers, also known as wearable activity monitors, include commercial devices worn on the ...
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July
10,
2018
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Nine health-tech companies have joined the newest class of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator as they look to develop and refine solutions to some of healthcare's most pressing challenges, particularly those affecting the experience of patients.The compani...
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May
29,
2018
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Physician satisfaction scores on online third-party review sites tend to be skewed and can easily mislead patients, according to a new study by Cedars-Sinai investigators.This distortion may have significant consequences as consumers rely increasing...
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May
11,
2018
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Anne Wellington, a highly regarded healthcare executive with extensive corporate management experience, has been named managing director of the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator.The accelerator provides mentoring and financial support for early-stage healthca...
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