What You Should Know:
- Cleerly, a pioneer in advanced cardiovascular imaging, has announced the successful closure of its Series C extension funding round, raising a total of $106M led by Insight Partners, with participation from Battery Ventures and existing investors.
- The funding will enable Cleerly to expand its reach and make its AI-powered cardiac care solutions accessible to more patients as well as invest in research and clinical trials to further validate the
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AI More Accurate for Cardiac Diagnosis than Echocardiogram Assessments
What You Should Know:
- In a first-of-its-kind randomized clinical trial led by researchers at the Smidt Heart Institute and the Division of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, artificial intelligence (AI) proved more successful in assessing and diagnosing cardiac function when compared to echocardiogram assessments made by sonographers.
- The results, announced during a late-breaking presentation at the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2022, have immediate
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Intelerad & DiA Imaging Analysis Partner to Empower Echocardiography Labs with AI
What You Should Know:
- Intelerad Medical Systems and DiA Imaging Analysis, a leading global provider of AI-based ultrasound software solutions, today announced a new partnership to offer DiA’s LVivo Seamless AI-based cardiac ultrasound software solution as part of Intelerad’s cardiac imaging solutions, IntelePACS.
- This collaboration will empower Intelerad’s 2,000 global customers to access critical key measurement results for their echo studies, as well as will improve the
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Cedars-Sinai Establishes New Division: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM)
What You Should Know:
- Today, the department of Cedars-Sinai announced it has established a new division to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied to help solve complex medical problems and enhance clinical care.
- The new division, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, or AIM will be led by Sumeet Chugh, MD, an associate director of the Smidt Heart Institute and a prominent expert in sudden cardiac arrest, who has long relied on technology and population-wide data to help
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Philips Acquires Cardiologs to Expand Cardiac Diagnostics & Monitoring Portfolio
What You Should Know:
- Philips today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Paris-based Cardiologs, a France-based medical technology company focused on transforming cardiac diagnostics using artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology.
- Cardiologs will further strengthen Philips’ cardiac monitoring and diagnostics offering with innovative software technology, electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis and reporting services. Financial details of the acquisition were not
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Gates Foundation Awards Caption Health $4.95M Grant to Develop AI-Guided Lung Ultrasound System
What You Should Know:
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards Caption
Health a $4.5M grant to support the development of an AI-guided lung ultrasound
system.
- The grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
will be leveraged to create new AI technology that allows medical professionals
without prior ultrasound experience to perform lung ultrasounds, expanding
access to quality medical care.
Caption Health, a leading medical
artificial intelligence (AI) company, today
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Northwestern to Deploy FDA-Cleared Deploy AI-Guided Cardiac Ultrasounds
What You Should Know:
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital is the first in the
nation to deploy FDA-cleared AI-guided ultrasound by Caption Health, including
measurement of ejection fraction – the most widely used measurement to assess
cardiac function.
- Caption Health's AI-guided cardiac ultrasound enables clinicians – including those without experience – to accurately perform diagnostic-quality exams -- accelerating the availability of information and saving lives.
- Caption AI has been
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Caption Health AI Awarded FDA Clearance for Point-of-Care Ejection Fraction Evaluation
What You Should Know:
- Caption Health AI is awarded FDA 510(k) clearance for
its innovative point-of-care ejection fraction evaluation.
- Latest AI ultrasound tool makes it even easier to
automatically assess ejection fraction, a key indicator of cardiac function, at
the bedside--including on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Caption Health, a Brisbane,
CA-based leader in medical AI technology, today announced it has received FDA
510(k) clearance for an updated version of
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Can AI Transform Patient Care from Reactive Craft to Strategic Art?
Personalized Analytics is becoming essential in healthcare, stemming from the movement from fee-for-service to a value-based market. The need to preempt and prevent disease on a more personal level, rather than merely reacting to symptoms, has created a significant opportunity for machine learning-based applications. This “analytics of one” approach (using advanced mathematical models and artificial intelligence techniques) is already impacting several key areas:
1. Medical imaging is utilizing
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Philips, Medtronic Partner to Advance The Image-Guided Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
Royal Philips has announced a collaboration with Medtronic to further advance treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF), a common heart rhythm disorder. Through the agreement, Medtronic will facilitate sales of products on behalf of Philips to provide an innovative, integrated image guidance solution for cryoablation procedures.Impact of Atrial FibrillationAtrial fibrillation (AF) affects more than 33 million people worldwide. Cryoballoon ablation is used in a minimally invasive
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