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Activ Surgical Raises $15M Advance Autonomous and Collaborative Surgery

by Fred Pennic 07/16/2020 Leave a Comment

Activ Surgical Raises $15M Advance Autonomous and Collaborative Surgery

What You Should Know: - Digital surgery pioneer Activ Surgical raises $15M in funding led by ARTIS Ventures to accelerate U.S. commercialization and European expansion efforts for its ActiveEdge platform, which enables existing surgical systems, from scopes to robots, to visualize, characterize and track tissue, in real-time beyond today’s human capability.  - ActivSight, is an easy-to-adapt, connected imaging module that seamlessly attaches to today’s laparoscopic and arthroscopic
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Mayo Clinic Performs First Shoulder Arthroplasty Procedure Using Mixed Reality

by Jasmine Pennic 07/16/2020 Leave a Comment

Mayo Clinic Performs First Shoulder Arthroplasty Procedure Using Mixed Reality

What You Should Know: - Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN performed the first-ever shoulder arthroplasty procedure using Wright Medical’s groundbreaking BLUPRINT Mixed Reality Technology, which provides surgeons a 3-D holographic view of the patient’s pre-operative plan. - The Mixed Reality Application is the latest addition to Wright’s BLUEPRINT ecosystem and enables a surgeon to maintain a direct view of the surgical site and simultaneously visualize and manipulate a
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4 Ways Healthcare Organizations Can Establish Partnerships to Drive Innovation

by Eric Nilsson, CTO, The SSI Group 07/14/2020 Leave a Comment

Nebraska Medicine’s experience points to four ways healthcare organizations can establish partnerships with vendors that drive innovation and performance excellence.

With public and private healthcare spending significantly outpacing that of other countries, U.S. hospitals face intense pressure to find new ways to capture greater value. More and more, organizations are finding that partnerships with existing vendors can help unlock next-level performance gains in a transformative environment. Take Nebraska Medicine, for example. In the early 2000s, the health system created multidisciplinary committees to boost revenue integrity and adopted new revenue
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Paige Lands Additional $20M for AI-Native Digital Pathology Ecosystem

by Fred Pennic 07/13/2020 Leave a Comment

Paige Raises $45M to Expand AI-Native Digital Pathology Ecosystem

What You Should Know: - Paige secures an additional $15M from Goldman Sachs totaling $20M to close out a total Series B funding round of $70M for its AI-native digital pathology ecosystem. - The company’s continued product portfolio of innovation in telepathology and digital diagnostics accelerated by further investment. Paige, an NYC-based leader in computational pathology transforming the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, today announced it received an additional $15M from
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Scripps Research, Repurpose.AI Partner to Develop COVID-19 Therapeutics

by Fred Pennic 07/10/2020 Leave a Comment

Scripps Research, Repurpose.AI Partner to Develop COVID-19 Therapeutics

What You Should Know: - Repurpose.AI, has partnered with Scripps Research to discover drug candidates that may be repurposed to treat COVID-19.  - The partnership will leverage Repurpose.AI's ActivPred AI Drug Discovery Platform, an unbiased drug, target, and disease agnostic digital chemistry engine, to discover drug candidates to treat COVID-19.  Scripps Research is teaming up with Repurpose.AI, an AI drug discovery company to develop COVID-19 therapeutics. The
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Mayo Clinic to Automate Patient Triage in ED to Reduce Physician Burden, Optimize Emergency Room Visits

by Fred Pennic 07/02/2020 Leave a Comment

Mayo Clinic to Automate Predictive Patient Triage in ED to Reduce Physician Burden, Optimize Emergency Room Visits

What You Should Know: - Mayo Clinic has inked a partnership Diagnostic Robotics to automate their patient triage system – allowing Mayo Clinic to make quicker, smarter decisions for patients when limited medical resources are available. - The new AI-driven platform will supplement the physician decision-making process in real-time by assisting with the clinical intake of patients – analyzing a simple questionnaire filled out by patients and rapidly determining their symptoms, test
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SwitchPoint Ventures Spins Out AI-Driven Health IT Startup Polaris Health

by Fred Pennic 07/01/2020 Leave a Comment

SwitchPoint Ventures Spins Out AI-Driven Health IT Startup Polaris Health

What You Should Know: - SwitchPoint (made up of veteran healthcare leaders with experience at Intermedix/R1 RCM and others) launches a new technology venture, Polaris Health that leverages AI to predict patient demand and create efficient clinician schedules that align with this demand. - Polaris Health’s solution utilizes proprietary machine learning algorithms to predict provider demand, distribute clinician resources to meet that
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Philips Partners With Proscia to Accelerate Open Digital Pathology Adoption

by Fred Pennic 07/01/2020 Leave a Comment

Philips Partners With Proscia to Accelerate Digital Pathology Adoption

What You Should Know: - Philips inks a collaboration with digital pathology leader Proscia to advance an open ecosystem that helps laboratories accelerate and scale digital pathology adoption. - Proscia will integrate the Philips Pathology SDK to natively utilize Philips’ iSyntax image format with its Concentriq digital pathology platform and suite of AI modules, providing users of Philips’ digital pathology solutions with expanded options to meet their business and
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New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs

by Fred Pennic 06/30/2020 Leave a Comment

New AI Accurately Translates 93% of Prescription Information Imported into EHRs

What You Should Know: - Healthcare technology company DrFirst has announced the release of its next generation, patented SmartSig AI technology to improve the quality of patient medication history when it is imported into hospitals’ and health systems’ electronic health records (EHRs). - Simple prescription instructions, called “sigs,” can have hundreds of variations or be missing entirely from patients’ medication histories when they are imported into hospitals’ EHRs. The missing
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18 Healthcare Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Companies to Watch

by HITC Staff 06/29/2020 Leave a Comment

Fundamental Surgery Becomes First VR Surgical Training Simulation to Gain CPD Accreditation

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are redefining what's possible in healthcare, as well as other sectors. The 18 companies listed below are some of the top virtual and augmented reality companies in the medical industry.  Defining Augmented Reality Augmented reality is a technology that blends real-world elements with virtual ones. For example, a person might visit a trade show and aim their smartphone at a display to activate an AR experience that allows them to see
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