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- Joi + Blokes, a national telehealth platform, announced the launch of its Beyond the Labs program, offering patients 30- to 60-minute personalized consultations with licensed, holistically-trained clinicians based on any existing lab results, prioritizing human connection over automation.
- The Beyond the Labs program allows patients nationwide to upload existing lab results from any provider and connect directly with a licensed clinician for personalized
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Ceribell Receives FDA Clearance for Clarity® AI, Becoming First Point-of-Care EEG for All Ages
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- Ceribell, Inc. today announced that the U.S. FDA has granted 510(k) clearance for its next-generation Clarity® algorithm.
- The FDA clearance makes the Ceribell System the first and only AI-powered point-of-care electroencephalography (EEG) technology available to detect electrographic seizures in all patients, from pre-term neonates through adults.
Closing a Critical Unmet Need in Neonatal Care
The FDA clearance for the Clarity® algorithm to
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SimonMed Imaging Launches AI-Powered Mobile Reports to Transform Mammography Results
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- SimonMed Imaging, one of the nation’s largest outpatient medical imaging providers, announced the launch of a new digital health platform, powered by Cascaid Health to ensure women complete vital follow-up imaging after mammography.
- Studies show that up to 30% of women miss recommended follow-up imaging, a gap the new platform aims to close.
Closing the Follow-Up Gap in Women’s Health
SimonMed Imaging is addressing a persistent and critical
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Why Independent Pharmacies are the Future of Personalized Care
Consumers today can get everything on demand and online, from groceries, to streaming content, to their prescriptions. Pharmacy digital capabilities, along with the ability to obtain prescriptions by mail, have grown in response. Yet more than 15 million people still rely solely on their local, independently-owned pharmacy as a trusted resource in their community —not just for medicine, but for personalized care including vaccines, testing services and more. As healthcare goes digital,
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Voio Emerges from Stealth with $8.6M to Launch World’s Most Accurate Medical Imaging Model
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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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