Articles tagged with 'Innovation' | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Cedars-Sinai Newsroom (Innovation)

2023
September
11,
2023
| 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
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2022
August
23,
2022
| 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
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March
01,
2022
| 06:01 AM America/Los_Angeles
A new division is exploring how artificial intelligence can be applied in medicine. Investigators recently used algorithms to identify patients at risk for heart attacks. Cedars-Sinai now has several programs using AI to help discover
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2021
November
18,
2021
| 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
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March
01,
2021
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
About #YearofCOVIDOne year has passed since stay-at-home orders went into effect across the U.S. and the COVID-19 pandemic changed our lives in profound ways. The novel coronavirus has infected more than 100 million worldwide and killed more than
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February
26,
2021
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Lisa Stewart doesn't dwell on the fact that she might be the first in the nation to undergo both mitral and tricuspid valve replacement procedures. She's too busy counting her blessings.“Life before and after my
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February
23,
2021
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
A surgical procedure advanced and studied by vascular neurosurgeons at Cedars-Sinai dramatically reduced the rate of recurrent strokes among patients with atherosclerotic disease, a new study shows.Atherosclerotic disease, also known as hardening of
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February
18,
2021
| 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
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January
13,
2021
| 06:06 AM America/Los_Angeles
Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, Cedars-Sinai employees have stepped-up and stepped-in to support patients and colleagues alike. And while there has been no shortage of selflessness, one group of volunteers shines a bright light on both the
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2020
October
14,
2020
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
In the wake of the opioid addiction crisis that has cost more than 500,000 U.S. lives, medical investigators have focused on finding new methods to help patients control pain. Brennan Spiegel, MD, director of Cedars-Sinai's Health Services
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July
10,
2020
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
A $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will enable the Cedars-Sinai Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences to lead a multi-site study that aims to improve care for hospitalized patients with opioid use
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June
25,
2020
| 11:01 AM America/Los_Angeles
New research from Cedars-Sinai has identified the pathways of neurons that help people retrieve information from memories and use that information to make decisions—a discovery that may aid development of future treatments for memory disorders
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January
06,
2020
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
A new Cedars-Sinai study reveals how memory and abnormal brain activity are linked in patients with epilepsy who often report problems with memory. The data show that abnormal electrical pulses from specific brain cells in these patients are
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2019
September
16,
2019
| 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
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August
14,
2019
| 11:01 AM America/Los_Angeles
A new study, published today in PLOS|ONE, the Public Library of Science, demonstrates the effectiveness of using virtual reality (VR) to combat pain for hospitalized patients. The study builds on previous work led by Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS,
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July
01,
2019
| 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
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June
27,
2019
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai has become a founding sponsor of Bioscience Los Angeles County, a new organization established to advance the pace of scientific innovation among major academic institutions, research hospitals, investors, companies, trade associations
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June
06,
2019
| 08:02 AM America/Los_Angeles
Scientists can't make a living copy of your brain outside your body. That's the stuff of science fiction. But in a new study, they recreated a critical brain component, the blood-brain barrier, that functioned as it would in the individual
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May
09,
2019
| 08:35 AM America/Los_Angeles
A novel imaging technique that uses a synthesized form of scorpion venom to light up brain tumors has shown promise in a clinical trial. The imaging system enables neurosurgeons to better see malignant growths that often are difficult to fully
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2018
December
24,
2018
| 06:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
From testing barbershop-based care for hypertension to being the first to use new devices to treat aneurysms, 2018 at Cedars-Sinai’s Smidt Heart Institute produced clinical-based advances with the power to transform cardiac care and patient
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December
04,
2018
| 08:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
New research from Cedars-Sinai has identified neurons that play a role in how people recognize errors they make, a discovery that may have implications for the treatment of conditions including obsessive-compulsive disorder and
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October
11,
2018
| 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
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September
26,
2018
| 11:32 AM America/Los_Angeles
Innovations in Medicine, a television program produced by PBS, recently interviewed Ali Azizzadeh, MD, director of Vascular Surgery at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, about an innovative, minimally invasive procedure to treat aneurysms
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July
10,
2018
| 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
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April
09,
2018
| 08:02 AM America/Los_Angeles
A team of Cedars-Sinai investigators has developed a new technique for conducting cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests that improves patient comfort, shortens testing time and has the potential to increase diagnostic accuracy and
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2017
December
18,
2017
| 01:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Contact: Soshea Leibler | soshea.leibler@cshs.orgMost of the companies at Demo Day on Dec. 6 have pilot projects underway with Cedars-Sinai, and others have secured commercial contracts with other health systems and companies.Los Angeles — Dec.
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May
26,
2017
| 03:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Contact Soshea Leibler | soshea.leibler@cshs.orgLos Angeles — May 26, 2017 — One year after graduating from the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator powered by Techstars, several health-tech startups are swiftly expanding their innovations into
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March
29,
2017
| 01:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Los Angeles — March 29, 2017 — Virtual reality therapy is effective in significantly reducing pain for hospitalized patients, according to a new Cedars-Sinai study.In the study, published online today by JMIR Mental Health, a sister
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March
09,
2017
| 01:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai investigators have identified a stem cell-regulating gene that affects tumor growth in patients with brain cancer and can strongly influence survival rates of patients. The findings, published in the online edition of Nature Scientific
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February
20,
2017
| 01:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai neuroscientists have uncovered processes involved in how the human brain creates and maintains short-term memories."This study is the first clear demonstration of precisely how human brain cells work to create and recall short-term
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