What You Should Know: - Using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze specialized brain MRI scans of adolescents with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), researchers found significant differences in nine brain white matter tracts in individuals with ADHD. The results of the study will be presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). ADHD: A Common and Challenging Disorder ADHD is a common neurodevelopmental disorder
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Alcohol Tracking App Sunnyside Raises $11.5M to Support Healthier Drinking Habits
What You Should Know: - Sunnyside, an app and program that helps people build healthier habits around drinking alcohol, today announced $11.5M in Series A funding and the hire of Steve Lloyd as Chief Product and Technology Officer. - The funding round was led by Motley Fool Ventures with major participation from Will Ventures, bringing the company's total funding to $14.6M to date. Additional Series A investors include Uncork Capital, Offline Ventures, Joyance
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QuantHealth Launches Katina: AI-Powered Platform for Clinical Trial Optimization
What You Should Know: - QuantHealth, an AI-powered clinical trial design startup, today announced a major product upgrade to its platform with the launch of Katina, a new tool that utilizes AI to simulate clinical trials at scale, expedite, de-risk, and optimize drug development. - The launch of Katina marks a new era in clinical trial optimization, powered by AI and massive real-world patient data. This innovative tool has the potential to revolutionize the way clinical trials are
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AI Can Improve Hypertension Treatment in Primary Care Settings, K Health Research Reveals
What You Should Know: - Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven Primary Care company K Health announced the publication of its peer-reviewed research in Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, which demonstrates how K Health’s AI can provide information that allows for more personalized hypertension treatment in patient-facing settings. Hypertension: A Silent Killer According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, affects
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Lunit, NTT DATA Partner to Deploy AI-Powered Chest X-Ray Solution in Singapore
What You Should Know: - Lunit, a provider of AI-powered solutions for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, has partnered with NTT DATA Singapore to introduce Lunit INSIGHT CXR at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Changi General Hospital (CGH), two of Singapore's largest public hospitals. - Lunit INSIGHT CXR is an AI-powered solution that helps radiologists detect abnormalities in chest X-ray images. The deployment of Lunit INSIGHT CXR at SGH and CGH is expected to improve the efficiency
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Dedalus, Ibex Launches AI-powered Digital Pathology Solution for Cancer Diagnosis
What You Should Know: - Dedalus Group, an anatomic pathology information systems provider in Europe, and Ibex Medical Analytics, a market leader in AI-powered cancer diagnostics, have jointly launched an integrated End-to-End AI-powered Digital Pathology Solution for cancer diagnosis. A New Standard for Anatomic Pathology Lab Digitization The new solution is now commercially available in major European markets and sets a new standard for anatomic pathology lab digitization by seamlessly
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Culmination Bio Raises $10M to Bring Longitudinal Health Data to Biopharma
What You Should Know: Culmination Bio, a company building the largest disease-agnostic patient data intelligence platform, today announced a $10 million investment from Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI) and Amgen Ventures.As a spinoff from Intermountain Health, Culmination Bio maintains exclusive rights to a physical library and cloud-based data lake covering over 40 years of de-identified patient electronic health records and biospecimen data. Data
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Beyond QA: The Next Wave of Medical Chatbots
Chatbots have come a long way since inception. While we’ve long used them for shopping and to expedite customer service requests, with growing popularity and use cases, they’re now common in fields from finance to healthcare. In particular, medical chatbots can achieve everything from improving the efficiency and quality of care, to quickly connecting patients to important information or providers. Like most machine learning tools, the more data a medical chatbot is trained on, the
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Avreo & Annalise.ai Integrate to Optimize Radiology Triage
What You Should Know: Avreo, a leading US healthcare workflow solution provider, announced an exciting integration partnership with Annalise.ai, a pioneer in artificial intelligence for medical imaging.This collaboration aims to revolutionize radiology triage for US healthcare centers through the distribution of Annalise.ai's cutting-edge solution with a focus on teleradiology providers. Streamlining Healthcare Workflow Avreo's cutting-edge interWORKS platform provides
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Vivodyne Secures $38M for AI-Powered Drug Discovery Platform
What You Should Know: - Vivodyne, a biotech company that accelerates drug discovery by testing therapies on lab-grown human organs raises $38M in total seed financing, led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Kairos Ventures, CS Ventures, MBX Capital, and Bison Ventures. - The funding will support Vivodyne's development of a clinically predictive AI stack and discovery pipeline, which utilizes lab-grown human organ tissues to identify novel therapeutic targets and predict patient
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