Morning Headlines 1/18/23

VCU Health launches Home Hospital, the first hospital-at-home program in central Virginia

VCU Health develops a hospital-at-home program that will offer acute care patients the ability to receive care at home via video, remote patient monitoring, and house call visits from care teams.

Ferrum Health Raises $6 Million to Bring Artificial Intelligence into Healthcare

AI-powered healthcare analytics startup Ferrum Health raises $6 million.

Apps want to be your new doctor’s office. Is that a good idea?

The Washington Post looks at the use of smartphone apps that collect patient clinical measures and send them to doctors, concluding that if the AI/ML they use requires doctors to interpret the results, the apps can’t really solve access and cost issues.