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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.
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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
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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
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- 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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RSNA23: Nuance Pioneers Generative AI in Radiology with PowerScribe Advanced Auto Impression
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- Nuance Communications, Inc., a Microsoft Company, announced significant advancements in its efforts to empower radiologists with the latest generative AI capabilities.
- At RSNA23, the company unveiled PowerScribe Smart Impression, a revolutionary AI-powered solution that streamlines workflows, accelerates reporting, and enhances efficiency for radiologists amidst growing staffing shortages and clinician burnout.
PowerScribe Smart Impression: Enhancing Reporting
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St. Luke’s Health System and TytoCare Partner to Bring Virtual Care to Idaho
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- TytoCare, a virtual care company partners with St. Luke’s Health System, the largest healthcare provider and employer in Idaho.
- This strategic partnership will give St. Luke’s employees and members of St. Luke’s Health Plan access to high-quality, convenient virtual care from the comfort of their homes.
Benefits for St. Luke’s Employees and Members
As part of this commitment to enhancing access to care, St. Luke’s Health Plan will offer TytoHome kits to its
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RSNA23: NVIDIA Launches Cloud Service for Medical Imaging AI
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- NVIDIA announced the launch of a cloud service for medical imaging AI, designed to streamline and accelerate the development of specialized AI models.
- The NVIDIA MONAI cloud APIs, built on the open-source MONAI project, provide developers and platform providers with a streamlined path to integrate AI into their medical imaging offerings.
Transforming Medical Imaging with AI
Medical imaging is a critical component of healthcare, accounting for approximately
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High-Performance Radiology Monitors: A New Era of Remote Work & Improved Care
Radiology monitors and the radiologists who use them form a critical part of both emergency and preventive healthcare services, and like most modern industry discussions, any need for new radiology equipment inevitably involves questions concerning cost, quality and benefits for radiologists or institutions. However, unlike the mindset that drives innovative room designs or experiments with hybrid employee schedules, purchasing decisions for radiology monitors often come down to simply ordering
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PayGround Secures $19.7M to Expand Healthcare Fintech Payments Platform
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- PayGround, a Gilbert, AZ-based healthcare fintech payments platform, announced closing a $19.7M oversubscribed Series A financing led by SixThirty with participation from Rally Ventures, IA Capital Group, FCA Venture Partners and Plug and Play Ventures.
- The funding will bolster the company’s rapid expansion into hospitals and health systems, building on its success in the ambulatory market, as well as grow its senior leadership
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RSNA23: iCAD, GE HealthCare Integrate to Advance Breast Cancer Detection with AI
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- iCAD, Inc. (NASDAQ: ICAD), a provider of medical technology and innovative cancer-detection solutions, announced that its ProFound Breast Health Suite will be integrated into GE HealthCare’s new MyBreastAI Suite offering.
- This integration coincides with GE HealthCare’s and iCAD’s presence at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago as it unveils new research evaluating its ProFound AI in breast cancer risk detection and heart
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