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Voio, a frontier AI lab spun out of UC Berkeley and UCSF, has secured $8.6M in seed funding led by Laude Ventures and The House Fund to launch a unified reading platformThe company's open-source model, Pillar-0, demonstrates unprecedented accuracy—outperforming leading models from Google and Microsoft by 10%–17% AUC—to address radiologist burnout and diagnostic delays.
Solving Fragmentation and Burnout in RadiologyVoio’s core mission is to solve the fragmentation that
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GE HealthCare Submits Photonova™ Spectra for FDA Clearance: Deep Silicon Detectors Power New PCCT System
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- GE HealthCare has announced the submission of a 510(k) to the U.S. FDA for Photonova™ Spectra, its new photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) system with advanced AI algorithms.
- Built on proprietary Deep Silicon detector technology, the system aims to redefine diagnostic confidence by delivering ultra-high-definition (UHD) imaging, enhanced material separation, and rapid acquisition speeds.
Photon Counting CT with Deep Silicon
GE HealthCare's
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11 Recent Digital Health FDA Clearances You Need to Know: AI, Wearables, and Robotics Drive Precision Medicine Forward
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- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently issued several key clearances, marking significant advancements across diagnostics, surgery, and remote patient monitoring.
- These FDA clearances reflect a deepening integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced technology into clinical workflows, promising greater precision, reduced invasiveness, and expanded access to care.
Diagnostics and Remote Monitoring: AI and Wearables at Scale
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GE HealthCare Acquires Intelerad for $2.3B to Create Cloud-First, AI-Enabled Imaging Ecosystem
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- GE HealthCare announced the acquisition of Intelerad, a medical imaging software provider, for $2.3 billion in cash.
- The deal is set to accelerate GE HealthCare's shift to a SaaS business model and expand its AI-enabled imaging solutions across high-growth outpatient and ambulatory care settings.
Strategic Merger: Expanding Cloud-First Imaging to Outpatient Care
The strategic acquisition underscores GE HealthCare's commitment to cloud-enabled and
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How eClinicalWorks is Harnessing AI and Telehealth to Support Rural Healthcare Organizations
Rural communities face a complex web of barriers that hinder access to quality healthcare, including long travel distances, workforce shortages, limited broadband for telehealth, underinsurance, low health literacy, and social stigmas. These obstacles often discourage individuals from seeking timely medical care and contribute to disproportionate health burdens such as shorter life expectancy, higher rates of chronic disease, and fewer preventive care options compared to urban areas. Despite
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How Female Bodies Became Political Weapons
Hormones are having their 120th birthday this year—in 1905, British scientist Ernest Starling first coined the term “hormone.” And while so much has developed scientifically since then, so much has stayed the same.
Women and their reproductive systems governed by sex hormones have been pathologized as having “hysteria” for centuries (really–the ancient Greek term for uterus came from the word hysteron). Almost immediately after hormones were discovered, estrogen was named in 1906, after
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Northwell Health Partners with K Health to Launch AI-Powered Virtual Primary Care Now Platform
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- Northwell Health and K Health today announced a collaboration to transform the delivery of primary care services across New York.
- The virtual care platform, Northwell Primary Care Now, will be powered by K Health's clinical-grade AI, designed to provide seamless access to comprehensive primary care around the clock. This new service will deliver personalized, high-quality primary care directly to patients whenever and wherever they need it.
Expanding
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Why Healthy Aging Will Not De Delivered By Innovation Alone
We are entering an era where aging is no longer seen as a passive decline, but as a dynamic, measurable, and critically modifiable process. Across biotech, diagnostics, and AI-driven research, the question is no longer can we detect disease, but how early, how precisely, and how personally?
But as our capabilities grow, so too does the infrastructure gap. We now have the tools to map the biological signatures of aging across entire populations through genomics, transcriptomics, epigenetics,
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MRO Acquires Clinetic to Accelerate Clinical Trial Patient Recruitment with AI-Driven Data
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- MRO has acquired Clinetic, a recruitment management platform, to enhance its smarter data commitment. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
- The acquisition integrates Clinetic’s AI-driven software, which leverages real-time EHR data to identify, screen, and enroll clinical trial patients faster and with greater precision.
MRO Strengthens "Smarter Data" Focus with Clinetic Acquisition
MRO, a company committed to being the single
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Function Launches Medical Intelligence Lab to Decode Longevity with AI and 100+ Biomarkers
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- Function has created a new category in preventive health—one that shifts how people think about longevity, early detection, and everyday decision-making. The company’s mission is simple but ambitious: empower people to live 100 healthy years. It began by redefining routine testing through its bi-annual, 100+ biomarker lab panel, giving individuals an expansive, longitudinal view of their changing biology.
- The acquisition of Ezra accelerated
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