What You Should Know: - Sheba Medical Centre, Israel’s largest medical center, today announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation to help doctors improve the diagnosis and treatment of people with Crohn's disease. - Sheba developed a new, first-of-its-kind application capable of quickly and accurately analyzing extensive video data of a patient’s digestive system, providing valuable insights to aid medical professionals. AI-driven Solutions to Diagnose Crohn’s Disease The
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Medtronic, AWS to Provide Underserved Communities with AI-Assisted Colon Cancer Screening
What You Should Know: - Medtronic and AWS, today announced a partnership to provide underserved communities with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted colonoscopy technology through AWS’s $40M Health Equity Assistance Program for colon cancer screening. - Amazon Web Services will support the effort to provide Medtronic GI Genius™ intelligent endoscopy modules to facilities that primarily serve communities with low screening rates or where access to this technology is not currently
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Sony Updates NUCLeUS Medical Imaging Platform to Support Remote Patient Observation
What You Should Know: - Today, Sony announced an update to our NUCLeUS medical
imaging platform, which improves support for remote patient observation. - NUCLeUS has added new functionality and features,
including powerful bi-directional telestration capabilities allowing multiple
remote users to simultaneously annotate, draw or highlight areas of interest in
a live stream video or still image. Sony today
announced an update to its vendor-neutral medical imaging platform NUCLeUS.
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Hg Takes Majority Holding in Intelerad: 3 Major Implications to Know
- On 23rd Jan 2020, Hg Capital announced it had agreed to acquire a majority stake in imaging IT software vendor Intelerad Medical Systems from previous majority stake owners Novacap. - The founders, management and employee shareholders at Intelerad will be reinvested, with Novacap remaining as a minority shareholder. - The company has undergone significant growth in the last four years, announcing a USD75m R&D program in 2019 and acquiring imaging IT workflow specialist Clario Medical
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The Growing Emergence of Robots in Healthcare: Key Opportunities & Benefits
Robots are a rapidly growing part of the modern health care landscape. The history of robots in medicine dates back to 1985 when a robotic arm called “PUMA” assisted with surgery for the first time. The operation — a neurosurgical biopsy — was a complete success. Some of today’s health care robots make PUMA look a little primitive by comparison. Advances in sensor and motion control technologies mean robots are more precise and autonomous than ever, and capable of not just assisting, but
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Japanese Startup AI Medical Secures FDA Approval for Real-Time Endoscopic AI Platform
Key Highlights- AI Medical Service, a Toyoko, Japan-based endoscopic artificial intelligence provider announces it has been granted Breakthrough Device Designation by the FDA. - FDA Breakthrough Device Designation expedites the traditional development, assessment, and review process, and enables medical professionals to get access to new developments quickly.- Designation will also enable the company to launch its project in the U.S. and expand to other markets across the world.AI Medical
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Lucid Diagnostics Receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for EsoCheck
PAVmed Inc. (the “Company” or “PAVmed”), a highly differentiated, multi-product medical device company, today announced that its majority owned subsidiary, Lucid Diagnostics Inc. (“Lucid”), has received 510(k) marketing clearance for its EsoCheck Cell Collection Device™ (“EsoCheck”) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
EsoCheck is a non-invasive cell collection device that is designed to sample cells from a targeted region of the esophagus in a five-minute office-based
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Olympus Medical Systems Partners with InterSystems to Improve Care Coordination
InterSystems announced their partnership with Olympus Medical Systems, a global leader in designing and delivering innovative solutions for medical and surgical procedures. Olympus will use the InterSystems HealthShare platform to improve information sharing across hospital systems, particularly images taken during patient procedures.In the past, images taken during common procedures, like endoscopies, were stored on bulky external drives, adding to the time spent accessing the images and
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