News from NYU Langone Health
AWS Brings Amazon One To Healthcare, Reducing Check-In Friction. (Forbes)
(3/5) NYU Langone Health is implementing Amazon One’s palm-scanning technology across its hospitals, doctors’ offices, and outpatient facilities, allowing patients to check in for appointments with a contactless palm scan that links directly to their health records, as part of an integration with AWS and Epic, aiming to enhance the patient experience by eliminating check-in delays and enabling staff to focus more on patient care rather than administrative tasks, while ensuring privacy by encrypting palm data and not storing or accessing health records.
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NYU Langone – Suffolk Newest Part Of NYU Langone Health. (News 12-TV Long Island (NY))
(3/4) NYU Langone Health has renamed Long Island Community Hospital in Patchogue to NYU Langone – Suffolk, marking a significant milestone in their three-year partnership, during which emergency room wait times have reportedly decreased by nearly 70 percent and surgical cases have increased by 50 percent.
GLP-1 Drugs Improve Outlook For Kidney Transplants. (HealthDay)
(3/6) “GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic can help kidney transplant patients avoid organ failure and live longer, a new study suggests,” with lead researcher Babak J. Orandi, MD, PhD, member of the faculty, Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery, and Department of Medicine, saying, “Our study results are the strongest evidence to date that GLP-1 agonist drugs are largely safe and effective tools for addressing type 2 diabetes in kidney transplant recipients.”
Advanced Robotic Surgeries Are Minimally Invasive, Helping Patients Heal Faster. (Discover Magazine)
(3/5) Robotic-assisted surgery is increasingly common, now used in approximately 22 percent of surgeries, and offers benefits such as reduced bleeding and faster recovery times, according to the American College of Surgeons, with advancements like the world’s first fully robotic double lung transplant led by Stephanie H. Chang, MD, associate professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Startup Emboa Medical’s Device Mimics Boa Constrictor’s Teeth To Remove Blood Clots. (Indianapolis Business Journal)
The (3/5) Emboa Medical, a startup founded on Purdue University research, is developing a patent-pending catheter, the TRAP, designed to remove blood clots causing ischemic strokes by mimicking a boa constrictor’s teeth, with NYU Langone Health clinicians among its founders.
Measles Case Confirmed In South Florida Teen. (Spectrum News 13 (FL))
(3/5) A measles case has been confirmed at Palmetto Senior High School in Miami-Dade, marking the first in Florida since a 2024 outbreak, with Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo informing parents about symptoms and vaccination advice; Adam J. Ratner, MD, professor, Departments of Pediatrics, and Microbiology, Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, noted, “In the years leading up to when the vaccine was licensed in 1963, we had about 500 kids a year in the U.S. who would die from measles.”
Crohn’s Risk Stratification: Optimizing ѵ. (Medscape)
Paywalled* (3/5)* Jordan E. Axelrad, MD, associate professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, discussed risk stratification in Crohn’s disease, emphasizing the importance of assessing disease activity, severity, and risk to guide therapy, reduce complications, and improve outcomes, using tools like the Crohn’s Disease Activity Index, Harvey-Bradshaw Index, biomarkers, endoscopy, and imaging.
Fermilab’s Anna Grassellino: Eyeing The Prize Of Quantum Advantage. (Physics World (UK))
(3/5) The Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, led by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, collaborates with clinical experts at NYU Langone Health to apply quantum computing methods to enhance data analysis in quantitative MRI, potentially offering a powerful diagnostic tool for evaluating tissue damage and disease.
News from NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn
Opportunistic CT Screening For Osteoporosis Could Cut $2.5 Billion In Costs. (DOT Med News)
(3/5) A study by the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute, NYU Langone Health, and Massachusetts General Hospital, published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, suggests that using existing CT scans for osteoporosis screening could more than double screening rates among Medicare beneficiaries and reduce healthcare costs by up to $2.5 billion annually by preventing fractures; Soterios Gyftopoulos, MD, MBA, professor, Departments of Radiology, and Orthopedic Surgery, chief, radiology, NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn, said, “With this study, we wanted to demonstrate the gap that OCT could potentially fill by mitigating the current poor osteoporosis screening rates in the Medicare population.”
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