Digital Innovations Authorship
By Dinesh Divakaran, Director, Digital Innovations As digitization, automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning become more prevalent in research and academic institutions, more innovators are filing invention disclosures relating to software and copyrightable-based innovations. Seeking…
AI Model Uses Retinal Scans to Predict Alzheimer’s Disease
Published November 30, 2020 Sarah Avery 919-660-1306 Email DURHAM, N.C. – A form of artificial intelligence designed to interpret a combination of retinal images was able to successfully identify a group of patients who were…
Duke’s digital innovation team on how to build a collaboration road map
Duke’s Dinesh Divakaran discusses the challenges of partnerships between academic medical centers and digital health companies. Within the last decade we’ve seen an uptick in collaboration efforts between academic medical centers (AMC) and digital health…
‘All hands on deck’: How Duke University and AI for Health raced to create a COVID-19 solution for patients
The 7-month-old was crying. Amanda Randles picked her up, held her and continued talking on the video meeting call from home. Nearby, her other 7-month-old baby started to wail. Randles put one baby down, picked…
DXC Technology & Infinia ML Team Up
Nov 24, 2020 TYSONS, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov 24, 2020– DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) today announced a new relationship with Infinia ML to further advance machine learning and data analytics to help customers manage and drive stronger performance and value…
Cohere-Med Spins Out Suite of AI-based Predictive Analytics
Cohere-Med Inc., a San Francisco based health data science startup, has spun out a suite of artificial intelligence-based predictive analytics and algorithms from Duke University. Following last year’s announcement of licensing the Sepsis Watch algorithm…
Protecting Your Software Ideas: to Copyright or to Patent
By David Chang Villacreses, Assistant Director, Digital Innovations Software-related inventions are becoming increasingly popular due in part through the development of new technologies such as machine learning algorithms, mobile applications, and open source implementations. As…
KēlaHealth Raises $12.9M in Combined Seed and Series A Financing Round
KēlaHealth’s risk prediction and intervention platform shows quality improvements in surgery and reduced costs for hospitals SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — KēlaHealth, Inc., a surgical intelligence platform that applies a dynamic cycle of patient-specific predictions,…
Startup IonQ drastically ups the quantum computing ante
BY ROBERT HACKETT October 1, 2020 10:06 AM EDT IonQ says it has built the world’s most powerful quantum computer, as measured by a common industry metric. On a machine featuring 32 qubits—the quantum equivalent of classical…