What You Should Know:
- Oatmeal Health, an innovator in AI-driven cancer screening launches its AI-powered radiology risk stratification platform for lung cancer.
- The solution provides a fully reimbursable second-opinion diagnostic tool covered by Medicare, making it more accessible and affordable for healthcare providers and patients.
AI-Powered Lung Nodule Analysis
Lung cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, but screening rates remain
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Lung Cancer
PrognomiQ Raises $34M to Advance Multi-Omics Early Detection Test for Lung Cancer
What You Should Know:
- PrognomiQ, a healthcare company pioneering multi-omics approaches to disease detection, has secured $34M in Series D funding led by Seer, Inc., with participation from a new strategic investor and existing investors including Catalio Capital Management, aMoon, Invus and Bruker.
- The funding brings PrognomiQ’s total funding to more than $135M and will accelerate the development of PrognomiQ's early detection test for lung cancer.
Enhancing Lung
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Nebraska Medicine & CancerIQ Boost Lung Cancer Risk Assessments by 6x
What You Should Know:
- Nebraska Medicine, the clinical partner of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, achieved a nearly 6x increase in lung cancer risk assessment completion through a collaboration with CancerIQ, a best-in-class cancer-focused precision health platform.
- The results of the lung cancer early detection campaign, which focused on risk assessment outside of the clinical setting, will be presented at the upcoming Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC) National
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AI Breakthrough for Lung Disease: Thirona’s LungQ Receives FDA Clearance
What You Should Know:
- Thirona, a pioneer in AI-powered lung analysis, received a major boost for its cutting-edge technology LungQ™ with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its latest update, v3.0.0.
- This FDA clearance paves the way for American hospitals to now harness the software's advanced capabilities, marking a significant step forward in lung disease diagnosis and treatment.
LungQ 3.0.0: Precision Navigation for Lung Interventions
This latest
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Sheba Medical Deploys AI Lung Cancer Diagnostics Platform
What You Should Know:
- Sheba Medical Center, Israel’s largest medical center, today announced the deployment of a new accelerated, AI-powered cancer diagnostics research platform that can shorten diagnostic time from three weeks to minutes.
- The platform integrates technology developed by Sheba, in addition to innovative digital health startups, to accelerate the pathology department’s diagnostic capabilities.
- The first algorithm incorporated, developed by precision oncology
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Notable Leverages GPT to Automate Patient Front Office Experience
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Notable, an intelligent automation company for healthcare, launches Patient AI, a solution leveraging large language models (LLMs) and GPT (the technology powering ChatGPT) to bring personalization at scale to healthcare.Using GPT to scan existing clinical documentation, this tech can detect missed diagnoses, identify lapsed insurance cards, incorrect addresses, eligible clinical trials, or costly care gaps in real-time across an entire patient population.
How
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Protai Raises $20M to Build an Oncology Drug Discovery Pipeline
What You Should Know:
- Protai, a proteomics and AI-powered drug discovery startup revolutionizing the way new drugs are discovered, today announced a $12 million extension of its seed round, bringing the total amount to $20M.
- The round includes existing investors Grove Ventures and Pitango Healthcare and was joined by Copenhagen-based Maj Invest Equity Fund. The additional funding will be used to build Protai’s oncology drug discovery pipeline, expand data
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Q/A: Oatmeal Health Co-Founder Talks AI-Enabled Cancer Screening for the Underserved
Today, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Sadly, cancer disparities exist, with racial/ethnic minority, low-income, and uninsured populations suffering the greatest burden. That’s why routine cancer screening is critical to addressing cancer disparities as they have the potential to greatly reduce both incidence and mortality rates. To address this, Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) are funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration to provide
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Biden Admin Builds on Cancer Moonshot with 13 More Initiatives
What You Should Know:
- One year ago, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden reignited the Cancer Moonshot, setting an ambitious, achievable goal: to reduce the death rate from cancer by at least 50 percent over the next 25 years, and improve the experience of people and families living with and surviving cancer, ultimately ending cancer as we know it today.
- The Cancer Moonshot has spurred tremendous action across the federal government and from the public and private
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Is AI-Assisted Lung Cancer Diagnosis Right For Your Hospital?
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, with approximately 1.8 million people dying from this disease each year. Most patients are diagnosed after symptoms have appeared and the disease has progressed to an advanced stage (Stage III or IV), which explains the current worldwide five-year survival rate of just 20 percent. In contrast, the survival rate for small lung tumors that are treated at Stage 1A is as high as 90 percent. This significant difference highlights a critical
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