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Musculoskeletal technology leader Globus Medical, Inc. announced the acquisition of Higgs Boson Health, a digital healthcare experience company based in Durham, North Carolina, and incubated out of Duke University.Integrates Higgs Boson’s software engineering and artificial intelligence research teams into Globus Medical to develop a seamless, connected digital care environment spanning the entire musculoskeletal patient journey.The acquisition positions Higgs Boson’s
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Philips Wins $33.7M ARPA-H Award to Scale Autonomous Robotic Thrombectomy
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Philips secured an award of up to $33.7M from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) under its Autonomous Interventions and Robotics (AIR) program, led by Dr. Ileana Hancu.Develops AI-enabled robotic procedure automation and remote-assisted capabilities for endovascular stroke treatment (mechanical thrombectomy) built on the Philips Azurion image-guided therapy platform.The program integrates AI navigation algorithms, robotic catheter control, and
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GE HealthCare Expands Cardiovascular Ultrasound Portfolio with Vivid Explorer, Vivid Advanced, and Vivid Focus
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GE HealthCare unveiled three new cardiovascular ultrasound systems—Vivid™ Explorer, Vivid™ Advanced, and Vivid™ Focus—showcased at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2026 in Munich, Germany.All three systems leverage the software-defined cSound™ imaging architecture introduced on the ultra-premium Vivid Pioneer, standardizing image reconstruction, contrast, and spatial resolution across care environments. The systems pair with EchoPAC™ Software Only
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Metriport Raises $26M to Scale Open-Source Point-of-Care Clinical Intelligence
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Open-source healthcare data infrastructure company Metriport secured $26M in new funding led by TJ Parker, General Partner at Matrix, with participation from ARTIS Ventures and Y Combinator, bringing its total capital raised to $28.4M.The platform eliminates point-of-care blind spots and weeks-long manual chart chasing across hospitals, pharmacies, and outpatient clinics by unifying and deduplicating medical records into a standardized, searchable data model. Replaces
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Intermountain Medical Center Deploys GE HealthCare’s AI-Powered SIGNA Sprint Elite MRI
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Intermountain Medical Center in Murray, Utah, is the first hospital in Utah—and only the second in the United States—to deploy GE HealthCare’s SIGNA Sprint Elite MRI system.GE HealthCare’s SIGNA Sprint Elite MRI system utilizes embedded artificial intelligence reconstruction software and advanced high-performance gradient hardware to reduce scan acquisition times and enhance diagnostic clarity for complex cardiovascular and oncologic conditions.
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Onos Health Raises $17M to Transform Unstructured Behavioral Clinical Intelligence for Health Plans
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Onos Health, a behavioral health clinical intelligence platform engineered for health plans and payers, secured a $17 million Series A financing round led by Costanoa.The syndicate features strategic investment from CVS Health Ventures alongside continued participation from Flare Capital Partners.Directly targets structural blind spots in behavioral healthcare—a category affecting over 23% of U.S. adults annually and generating more than $140 billion in direct medical
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Abbott Receives FDA Authorization for Libre Duo 10 Day, World’s First Dual Glucose-Ketone Sensing System
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted De Novo marketing authorization to Abbott for its Libre Duo 10 Day system, establishing the new integrated continuous glucose and ketone monitoring (iCGK) regulatory benchmark alongside standard iCGM status.Libre Duo monitors glucose and continuously tracks rising ketones in the background to prevent diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a critical emergency for which U.S. hospital admissions have increased by 55% over the
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ECRI Calls on Health Systems to Report Clinical AI Errors and Malfunctions
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Global patient safety nonprofit ECRI expanded its Problem Reporting Network to explicitly capture, investigate, and triage errors, malfunctions, and near misses involving artificial intelligence (AI) tools and AI-enabled medical devices used in patient care.Addresses a critical clinical oversight deficit: while AI is deployed across diagnostic imaging, clinical decision support, and ambient scribes, the industry lacks a centralized, healthcare-specific mechanism to track
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Therapeutic VR Is Reaching Clinical Care. It Needs a Safety Ledger
As of 2026, Medical Extended Reality (MXR) has transitioned from experimental pilot phases to an integrated component of the regulated medical device landscape. It is already part of the regulated medical device landscape in the United States, and the FDA now maintains a public list of AR and VR devices authorized for marketing. Some of those products are procedural or surgical, but others are clearly therapeutic, which means immersive care has moved beyond theory and into real clinical
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Fitbit Founders Unveil Luffu Link, Wearable for Family Health, Safety and Connection
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Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman have officially unveiled Luffu Link, a screenless, jewelry-inspired LTE health and safety wearable designed specifically for family caregiving and aging in place.Luffu Link marks the first hardware device in a broader ecosystem spanning the Luffu smartphone app (introduced in February 2026 and currently in public beta), the wristband, and an upcoming dedicated in-home display device slated for later this year.Addresses the
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