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55 INNOVATION 5 tech 'game changers' in healthcare for 2021 By Jackie Drees A mbient intelligence and bioprinting are some of the big tech- nologies researchers predict may become "game changers" in healthcare over the next year, according to a CB Insights report published in February. For its "Game-Changing Tech 2021" report, CB Insights outlined 10 emerging technology trends across the healthcare, privacy, education, environment and financial industries. Here are three game-changing technologies in healthcare in 2021: 1. Space-based research and development: service providers for space-based experimentation in areas like biology and biotechnology. 2. Bioprinting: 3D printing using cells and biomaterials to create liv- ing biological tissue, such as on-demand human organ creation. 3. Ambient intelligence: artificial intelligence and Internet of Things-enabled environments that are responsive to the presence of people in healthcare spaces like intensive care units and clinics that are more difficult to monitor. Here are two game-changing technologies in privacy for 2021: 4. Cookie-busting ads: using AI to appropriately place ads based on content, not activity-tracking. 5. Differential privacy: privacy solutions that mask data or make it anonymous to support analysis and sharing without exposing private information. n Cleveland Clinic building biorepository, plans to integrate it into innovation district By Katie Adams C leveland Clinic is building a biorepository slated to start opera- tions in June, which it hopes to incorporate into the Cleveland Innovation District, cleveland.com reported Feb. 17. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Jan. 25 announced the creation of the new Cleveland Innovation District, which comprises Cleveland Clinic alongside other Cleveland-based healthcare organizations University Hospitals, MetroHealth System, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University. Developers of the biorepository told cleveland.com that Cleveland Clinic wants to establish a centralized location for medical research- ers to store tissue test samples and collaborate on infectious disease research. They also said Cleveland Clinic plans to use about half the freezers and leave the other half for other organizations. Developers of the biorepository said they will be done building the 25,000-square-foot, two-floor facility in April, after which Chelmsford, Mass.-based Brooks Life Sciences will install 400 freezers. n Healthcare speaks up: 8 voice tech developments from Amazon, Epic & more By Katie Adams T ech giants and healthcare soware companies have developed more voice-enabled features in recent years to make clinical workflows more ef- ficient and bring greater convenience to at-home care. Below are eight voice technology developments in healthcare announced from December to February. 1. Amazon launched a feature for its Alexa voice assistant that lets users search for places to get a COVID-19 test. 2. Amazon also made its new wearable health track- ing device, Halo, available to the general public. It features two microphones that can be turned off or on at the user's discretion to analyze "peak periods of positivity and energy" in their voice. 3. CVS Health launched a medical alert system called Symphony, which is designed to protect seniors living at home. It is sold in two bundles, the more expensive of which comes with motion sensors and a voice-ac- tivated fall censor for the bathroom. 4. Allscripts launched its updated EHR platform Sunrise 20.0, which runs on Microso's cloud so- ware Azure and includes voice recognition capabil- ities in the system's mobile platform to assist with clinical documentation. 5. Sean Bina, vice president of patient experience at Epic, said that the next iteration of EHRs will in- clude the embedded voice assistant's ability to write the clinician's note and close visits. 6. Microso's venture fund invested in a machine learning-powered virtual health platform called inkAndor, which uses natural language process- ing for voice-dictated notes and recommends tasks to push into the EHR. 7. Mayo Clinic partnered with Israeli company Vocalis to develop voice-based tools for patient screening and monitoring. e partners will focus on identifying vocal biomarkers for pulmonary hypertension first. 8. Providence and Nuance Communications deepened their partnership, with plans to devel- op a voice-enabled platform that uses ambient sensing technology to document clinician and patient conversations. n