What You Should Know:
- Ibex Medical Analytics today announced that Galen™ Prostate has become the first standalone AI-powered cancer diagnostics solution to obtain CE Mark under Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation (IVDR) for supporting pathologists in the primary diagnosis of prostate biopsies.
- Galen Prostate is the first standalone AI-based cancer diagnostics product of its kind certified under the IVDR.
- During 2023, Ibex plans to migrate additional
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Cancer Diagnostics
Liver Cancer Awareness – Here’s What You Need to Know in 2023
By the end of 2022, nearly 42,00 new cases of primary liver cancer will be diagnosed in the United States. In fact, liver cancer incidence rates have more than tripled since 1980, marking an increased need for better detection and diagnosis.
We might not talk about liver cancer as much as we do breast or lung cancer, but it’s a real threat to millions of Americans – and we need to continue spreading awareness.
Early detection is especially critical in treating liver cancer.
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Intelerad Acquires PenRad Technologies
What You Should Know:
- Today, Intelerad, a leading global provider of enterprise medical imaging solutions, announced its acquisition of PenRad, a software provider for enhancing productivity for breast imaging and lung screening.
- The acquisition expands Intelerad’s product offerings for mammography and lung analytics, ensuring radiologists, technologists and other healthcare professionals can drive greater productivity and meet higher oncology screening demand, while improving patient
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Imagene Raises $21.5M to Expand Image-Based Biomarker Detection for Precision Medicine
What You Should Know:
- Imagene AI, an emerging leader in the field of AI-based precision medicine for cancer, today announced it raised $21.5 million, comprising $3M in seed funding led by Blumberg Capital and an $18.5M Series A round led by renowned technology-driven cancer medicine investors Larry Ellison, Dr. David Agus, and AI imaging space pioneer Eyal Gura.
- The use of AI-based molecular testing in cancer diagnostics is revolutionizing patient care by offering a new level of
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Black Female Co-founders CancerIQ Raises $14M to Improve Cancer Early Detection and Prevention
What You Should Know:
- CancerIQ, a Chicago-based platform powering early cancer detection and prevention across broad patient populations, announced today it closed a $14M Series B financing round.
- The Series B round was co-led by Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHI) and Amgen Ventures with participation from McKesson Ventures, OSF Ventures (the investment arm of OSF HealthCare, a current CancerIQ customer), and HealthX Ventures.
Inequality in
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Notable Labs Launches by Acquiring Rights to Volasertib – Will Use Data, AI to Fast-Track Cancer Treatment
What You Should Know:
- Coming out of stealth, Notable Labs, a pioneer and developer of predictive precision medicines, is acquiring worldwide development and commercial rights to volasertib, a PLK-1 inhibitor in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) from Oncoheroes.
- Notable will leverage its high-fidelity Predictive Precision Medicines Platform to identify and select volasertib-responsive patients prior to their treatment and fast-track volasertib’s clinical development
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Corindus Vascular Robotics CEO Departure, UPMC Enterprises’ New President, Nordic Consulting’s New CIO, Other Health IT Hires
Mark Toland, CEO of Corindus Vascular Robotics (acquired by Siemens for $1.1B last year), has announced his departure and will be joining BioStar Capital, a health-tech venture capital group focused on cardiovascular and orthopedic medical devices. As a partner and entrepreneur in residence, Mark will help to identify and develop innovative companies leveraging AI, deep learning, robotics, and other transformative technologies that address a wide range of unmet needs. The BioStar team has
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UK Cancer Diagnostics Startup Biofidelity Raises $12M
What You Should Know:
- UK-based Biofidelity raises $12 million in Series A funding to accelerate the launch of disruptive cancer diagnostic technology.
- The funding will be used to bring technology to market,
enabling a dramatic simplification of precision genetic testing to ensure many
more cancer patients receive optimal diagnosis and therapy.
Biofidelity Ltd, a Cambridge,
UK-based cancer diagnostics company, today announced it has raised $12 million
in Series A funding led by
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Top 60 Health IT/Digital Health Mergers & Acquisitions in 2019
- From Google's acquisition of Fitbit to Philips acquisition of Carestream Health's health IT business, here is a look at some of the biggest health IT/digital health mergers & acquisitions in 2019 by each quarter.
Q1 M&A Activity
Johnson & Johnson Acquires Auris Health for $3.4B to Expand Digital Surgery Portfolio
Johnson & Johnson acquiresAuris Health, a developer of robotic technologies for $3.4 billion in cash. Auris Health is a privately-held developer of
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Philips, Paige Partner to Deliver Clinical Grade AI Apps to Pathology Laboratories
- Philips and Paige form a strategic partnership to deliver AI-based cancer assessment tools are poised to help pathologists improve speed and accuracy of cancer diagnostics, ultimately leading to better patient care. - Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution in combination with Paige Prostate aims to provide an intuitive digital & computational pathology workflow experience. Philips plans to offer the CE-marked Paige Prostate to European pathology labs in 2020.Philips today announced a
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