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                                      “We learned that a higher level of intelligence and control is necessary to discover, connect, monitor, and manage patient care. This product can help manage and coordinate the delicate and complex process of digital transformation within a health system, while relentlessly learning from every patient, every provider, every facility, every device, every operation, and every process within the hospital system.” —Parsa Mirhaji, MD, Founder, Cognome
       THE BIOSCIENCES INITIATIVE
Led by Deborah Novick, the Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Westchester County, the Biosciences Initiative seeks to deepen the local biosciences industry by facilitating key relationships with Westchester entities equipped to provide services such as financing/investment, marketing/PR, fundraising, workspace/infrastructure, legal advice, and insurance, among others.
“Retia, Cognome and Medisprout are three companies that are having an outsized impact in their respective fields. They’re helping to save lives, enhance care and support patient experience during the most challenging public health crisis in over a century,” says Novick. “We are thrilled that these organizations call Westchester home.”
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The Argos Cardiac Output Monitor.
as many AI, ML, and CDSS as they need, but in a harmonious and interconnected fashion.
Cognome’s technology has become an integral component of Montefiore’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Its AI/ML engines help clinicians to identify critically ill COVID-19 patients hours in advance of their deterioration and marshal clinical and administrative resources effectively to improve both clinical outcomes and patient experience. The same platform is also providing operational insights and demand forecasting 2 to 3 weeks in advance to enable hospital leadership and decision makers to prepare Montefiore for providing the highest quality of care for its patients. The same platform is being used by Montefiore to screen and protect its hospital staff from exposure to Coronavirus.
TELEMEDICINE: MEDISPROUT
MediSprout, a leading telemedicine and virtual care platform company, recently announced record growth, new client adoption, and new features for its HIPAA-compliant virtual care solution, V2MD.
V2MD is a secure and easy-to-use tool that allows physicians to conduct video calls with their patients from any device, and integrates personal medical devices into the platform to allow physicians and their patients to discuss health data in real-time.
“The technology behind V2MD helps to strengthen and expand the patient relationship so that their care is enhanced and doctors can be rewarded for spending time with patients who need them.” —Samant Virk, MD and Founder of MediSprout.
    WESTCHESTER’S VIBRANT IT CULTURE
Employing more than 14,000 professionals, Westchester is home to 900-plus technology companies, including:
• IBM (Armonk), which provides integrated solutions that leverage information technology and knowledge of business processes. • MasterCard Labs (Purchase), which creates leading-edge payment technologies for consumers and enterprises.
• Ask Applications (Yonkers), which produces a host of browser applications, desk top utilities and apps such as MapsGalaxy
and Gaming Wonderland.
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