Pathologists at CorePlus review a cancer heatmap generated using Ibex Medical Analytics
What You Should Know:
- Ibex Medical Analytics announces the first U.S.
deployment of its AI-powered solution for cancer detection in pathology, at the
CorePlus Servicios Clínicos y Patológicos, LLC, a leading clinical and anatomic
pathology lab in Puerto Rico.
- The deployment will improve cancer care in the U.S.,
where the number of pathologists decreased by nearly 20% in the past decade.
This
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Israeli Hospital Launches Rapid COVID-19 Detection Tests Pilot Program
What You Should Know:
- The Middle East’s largest hospital, Sheba Medical Center in Israel, just launched a breakthrough rapid COVID-19 detection test pilot program that enhances virus detection spectral technology and adapts it into rapid coronavirus testing.
- The innovative process uses an artificial intelligence
algorithm to separate the profile of a person infected with a specific virus,
from someone else who has a different virus or that of another healthy person.
Israel’s
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Israel Innovation Authority Launches Pilot with Mayo Clinic, Hartford Health, Others
What You Should Know:
- Israel Innovation Authority invites Israeli companies to participate in health tech pilots with world-leading medical centers to analyze, adapt, and optimize health-focused technologies, services, and products in the clinical environments.
- The program’s partners include medical centers Mayo Clinic, Thomas Jefferson University, Hartford HealthCare (HHC), and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Charité).
The Israel
Innovation Authority and select
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DreaMed Launches Virtual Diabetes Clinic to Help Type-1 Diabetics Control Their Condition in Quarantine
What You Should Know:
- As COVID-19 spreads, DreaMed Diabetes unveils virtual diabetes clinic software to treat people with type 1 diabetes remotely.
- The virtual clinic utilizes Dreamed Diabetes’ AI-powered solution, to improve the insulin management treatment by analyzing the patient’s insulin and glucose data in the platform's algorithm and to remotely advise doctors on treatment.
- According to the CDC people with chronic medical conditions, including diabetes, have a higher risk
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Israeli VC Firm Peregrine Ventures Closes $115M MedTech Fund
- Israeli med-tech venture capital firm Peregrine Ventures raises $115M for its fourth fund focused on investing in early-stage medical technology startups. - To date, the VC firm has 10 exits totaling more than $2 billion in cumulative value and has over $200M in capital under management.Peregrine Ventures, a leading Israeli med-tech venture capital fund, today announced it has closed its fourth medtech-focused fund, Peregrine 4, raising $115 million. Their fourth medtech fund includes some of
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Unlike Theranos: FDA Clears Sight Diagnostics’ Finger-Prick Blood Test for U.S. Market
- Sight Diagnostics, the company working to provide patients with lab-grade blood testing results in minutes, has received US FDA 510(k) clearance for its finger-prick blood test, OLO analyzer to be used in laboratories run by diagnostic providers and hospitals.
- Sight Diagnostics’ patented OLO analyzer digitizes blood into images to perform the most common blood test in minutes, from just two drops of blood
- The FDA clearance follows clinical trials at Boston Children’s Hospital,
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MaxQ AI Integrates With Philips CT System for Hospitals & Radiology Departments
- MaxQ AI’s ACCIPIO® ICH and stroke software will be integrated on Philips CT systems and will be available to hospitals and radiology departments throughout the U.S. and E.U.MaxQ AI, an Israeli-based medical diagnostic AI company announced that the company’s Accipio intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) and stroke software will be integrated on Philips’ computed tomography (CT) systems. MaxQ AI will be demonstrating the company’s full suite of Accipio solutions during the upcoming Radiological Society
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Syqe Medical, TerrAscend to Distribute Medical Cannabis Inhaler to Canadian Market
- Syqe Medical, Ltd. and TerrAscend Corp. announced an exclusive distribution agreement to bring Syqe’s flagship product, the SyqeTM Inhaler, to the Canadian market.
- TerrAscend will utilize their platform to both provide high-quality guidance to patients on use of the Syqe device and educate the medical community on the benefits of medical cannabis and the Syqe treatment.
- For the first time ever, the amount of THC in the bloodstream can be accurately controlled in a consistent,
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Israeli Startup MDClone Lands $26M to Expand Healthcare Data Sandbox
MDClone, an Israeli-based provider of the world’s first healthcare data sandbox has raised $26 million in Series B funding led by aMoon with participation from existing investors OrbiMed Israel Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. MDClone plans to utilize the funding to further develop its existing platform and build new products and novel approaches leveraging data across its global network, as well as accelerate sales and marketing efforts.Healthcare Data Sandbox: Explore and Discover
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Geisinger Selects EarlySign to Apply AI Algorithms to Identify Patients At Risk of Lower GI Disorders
Geisinger Health System announced it is partnering with machine learning solution provider EarlySign to develop AI-based solutions to identify individuals at risk of a range of chronic and high-burden diseases. The multi-year agreement will begin by deploying EarlySign’s LGI Flag through Geisinger’s Steele Institute for Health Innovation – to identify patients at risk of lower gastrointestinal conditions – including colorectal cancer and precancerous adenomas. This partnership follows the
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