What You Should Know: - Caption Health and Heartbeat Health today announced a partnership that will enable providers to offer their patients earlier access to cardiovascular care than ever before possible. - Together, the partners are increasing access to early cardiac evaluations and care by providing these two innovations as a value-based bundle for health providers, payers, and value-based care organizations. Improving Access To Cardiac Care Limited access to cardiac diagnosis and
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Ultrasound
Exo Acquires Medo to Make Ultrasounds Simple and Accessible
What You Should Know: - Exo, a health information and devices company, today has announced it has acquired Medo, an FDA-cleared AI platform that makes ultrasound workflow faster, more reliable, and accessible to all. - By integrating Medo’s AI, Exo enables more caregivers in more settings to capture and interpret medical images – allowing faster and more accurate diagnoses and treatment. Make Medical Imaging as Easy as Snapping a Smartphone Photo Ultrasound imaging is
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Oncoustics Raises $5M for AI-Driven Point-of-Care Diagnostics
What You Should Know: - Oncoustics, San Francisco, CA-based ultrasound-based tissue characterization solutions announces the initial close of a $5 million+ seed round of funding to advance its SaMD (software as a medical device) technology for the low-cost assessment of structural diseases at the point of care. - Oncoustics’ first products will focus on liver disease, one of the fastest-growing causes of morbidity and mortality in the world. The round is co-led by Creative Ventures
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Caption Health Receives CE Mark for AI Ultrasound Tech
What You Should Know: - Caption Health, the leader in using artificial intelligence (AI) and services to improve heart ultrasound access, today announced that it has received a CE Mark for its Caption AI™ technology platform. - This certification represents the first step in making Caption Health’s industry-leading technology platform available outside the US, and highlights the company’s strong clinical and regulatory track record as it uses AI and ultrasound to deliver better cardiac
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Nomad Health Raises $105M to Expand Marketplace Beyond Travel Nurses
What You Should Know: - Nomad Health, a leading digital marketplace for temporary healthcare jobs, today announced the closing of a $105M financing co-led by Adams Street Partners and Icon Ventures. New equity investor HealthQuest Capital committed the largest sum and was joined by existing investors Polaris Partners, .406 Ventures, AlleyCorp, and RRE Ventures, and new debt providers J.P. Morgan and Trinity Capital. This brings Nomad’s total funding to over $200M since its founding in
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Intelerad & DiA Imaging Analysis Partner to Empower Echocardiography Labs with AI
What You Should Know: - Intelerad Medical Systems and DiA Imaging Analysis, a leading global provider of AI-based ultrasound software solutions, today announced a new partnership to offer DiA’s LVivo Seamless AI-based cardiac ultrasound software solution as part of Intelerad’s cardiac imaging solutions, IntelePACS. - This collaboration will empower Intelerad’s 2,000 global customers to access critical key measurement results for their echo studies, as well as will improve the
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Komodo Health Appoints COO, Transcarent, Vytalize Health, RxBenefits, Other Digital Health Appointments
Komodo Health has named Dr. Aswin Chandrakantan as its Chief Operating Officer. Dr. Chandrakantan will also continue to serve as the firm’s Chief Medical Officer, a role he has held since 2016. Dr. Chandrakantan was one of Komodo Health’s earliest employees – following leadership roles at McKinsey and Google – and has played a central role in the company’s rapid-fire growth. RxBenefits appoints Wendy Barnes as its new Chief Executive Officer. Barnes succeeds Bryan Statham, who served as the
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DiA Imaging Analysis Partners with Intel to Improve Ultrasound Analysis by 40%
What You Should Know: - DiA Imaging Analysis Ltd, a global provider of AI-powered ultrasound analysis software, has teamed up with Intel to streamline artificial intelligence (AI) solutions used by echocardiography (Echo) labs. - DiA’s AI-based software, LVivo Seamless™, automatically analyzes cardiac ultrasound images using the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit, to optimize processing time by over 40% percent while maintaining accuracy. Accelerating Processing Times for AI-Based
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Analysis: The Role of Compact Systems in Today’s Ultrasound Market
Much of the focus in the ultrasound market in the last few years has been on the handheld market. This is justified, considering its role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the spate of innovation in the sector, both in terms of new product releases and partnerships. As a result, there is less mention of the other ultrasound product segments, especially the compact market. However, the compact market has also been active, with the release of Fujifilm SonoSite’s SonoSite LX in February
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Gates Foundation Donates $5M for 1,000 Butterfly Ultrasounds to Sub-Saharan Africa
What You Should Know: - Butterfly Network, Inc. (NYSE: BFLY), a digital health company transforming care with handheld, whole-body ultrasound, today announced it received a grant in the amount of $5 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve maternal and fetal health. - Through this grant Butterfly will provide 1,000 healthcare workers in Sub-Saharan Africa with Butterfly iQ+, the world’s only handheld Advance Maternal and Fetal Health Butterfly Network will
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