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- Empathy Health Technologies, the maker of the Sober Sidekick platform, has secured $7.6M in new growth funding, bringing its total to $11.4M.
- The investment will fuel the expansion of its value-based care partnerships with U.S. payers, leveraging its proprietary Empathy Algorithm to measure and prevent relapse in real-time.
- By analyzing behavioral signals, the platform achieves 86-88% accuracy in identifying individuals likely to experience
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URMC and GE HealthCare Announce 7-Year Care Alliance to Deploy AI Imaging and Theranostics Center of Excellence
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- The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and GE HealthCare have established a seven-year Care Alliance to enhance system-wide efficiencies and patient access.
- The partnership will deploy new, AI-enabled imaging solutions, including one of the first Aurora SPECT/CTs in the U.S., and standardize patient monitoring with the Carescape™ platform. Crucially, URMC is working to acquire an on-site cyclotron to enable in-house production of radioisotopes for
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Circulate Health Secures Strategic Investment from Scrum Ventures to Scale TPE and Microplastics Removal Technology
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- Circulate Health, a pioneer in Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (TPE) technologies, has secured a seven-figure strategic investment from Scrum Ventures.
- The funding will accelerate the company's growth as it works to position TPE as a scalable, patient-centered solution for longevity care. Circulate's platform leverages TPE to remove microplastics, environmental toxins, and inflammatory markers from the bloodstream, addressing the growing consumer demand
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Sleep Cycle Launches Luma, a Proprietary AI-Powered Sleep Coach
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- Sleep Cycle, a leading sleep technology company, today announced the launch of Luma, a proprietary AI-powered sleep coach designed to revolutionize how users understand and improve their sleep.
- Built on Sleep Cycle’s proprietary machine learning and audio analysis technology, Luma now takes the app’s data visualization one step further by providing context, clear explanations, and step-by-step recommendations that evolve with each
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Curative Health Raises $150M, Reaches $1.275B Valuation to Disrupt Employer Health Insurance with AI and $0 Deductibles
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- Curative Health Insurance Company, a health plan designed to replace the traditional insurance model, has raised over $150M in Series B funding, pushing its valuation to $1.275B and securing its unicorn status.
- The investment validates Curative's core offering: a $0-out-of-pocket plan that eliminates deductibles and copays for members who complete an annual preventative visit, driving a reported 30% reduction in hospitalizations.
- The capital
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Mount Sinai Deploys AI-Enhanced Fetal Ultrasounds, Achieves Near-Perfect Detection Rates for Congenital Heart Defects
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- Mount Sinai-affiliated doctors in New York City have become the first in the region to integrate a validated AI software tool, BrightHeart, into large-scale clinical practice to enhance fetal ultrasounds.
- A recent study led by Mount Sinai West physicians showed that AI assistance improved the detection of suspicious findings for major congenital heart defects to over 97 percent, while simultaneously reducing reading time by 18 percent. This adoption promises
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Aidoc Partners with NVIDIA MONAI to Scale Open-Source Clinical AI
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- Aidoc, a leader in clinical AI, has expanded its aiOS™ (AI Operating System) through a collaboration with NVIDIA MONAI and a new partnership with Quibim to solve the "last mile" deployment challenge for imaging AI.
- The ecosystem expansion allows health systems to rapidly and reliably deploy internally developed and open-source models built on MONAI directly into routine clinical workflows at scale. The move validates the need for a unified operating system
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Eko Health’s SENSORA Secures National CMS Payment, Paving the Way for Widespread AI Cardiac Screening
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- Eko Health, a leader in AI-powered cardiac and pulmonary care, announced today that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a national payment for its SENSORA® platform under the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS).
- The landmark decision guarantees that hospitals and health systems can now receive crucial reimbursement for AI-enabled cardiac detection delivered right at the point of care in outpatient settings. The move
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DeepHealth Launches Comprehensive AI Breast Suite for End-to-End Cancer Care
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- DeepHealth, a subsidiary of RadNet, Inc., has launched the DeepHealth Breast Suite, a modular, end-to-end AI platform that unifies cancer detection, breast density, and risk assessment with cloud-first workflow tools.
- The suite is designed to elevate the standard of care by accelerating interpretation and driving earlier disease detection ("stage shifting"). Clinical data from over 579,000 mammograms shows that the suite's applications enabled a 21%
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Avandra Health Acquires DatCard and Sorna to Build the Leading Medical Imaging Data Platform
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- Avandra Health, the world's largest federated network for medical imaging and clinical data, today announced the acquisition of DatCard Systems and Sorna Corporation. This strategic move is set to establish Avandra as the leading medical imaging platform, uniquely positioned to use imaging data to improve patient care across both clinical and research applications.
- The acquisitions combine the critical capabilities of clinical data sharing between providers
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