What You Should Know: - Optellum, a lung-health medtech startup that is pioneering the use of AI to improve diagnostic accuracy and clinical decision-making announce a strategic collaboration with Johnson & Johnson’s Lung Cancer Initiative. This announcement accelerates Optellum’s market entry, building on its FDA clearance earlier this year and deployments underway at hospitals in the USA and ongoing clinical trials in the United Kingdom. - As part of the collaboration, Optellum will
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To Advance Health Equity, Put Real-World Cancer Data to Work
Despite decades of scientific progress against cancer, access to treatment remains highly unequal. Some of the reasons — like institutional racism and poverty — are a reflection of our broader society. Other inequities may go unrecognized but are no less damaging. People with underlying health conditions, for example, may be excluded from clinical trials, preventing them from accessing leading-edge treatments and limiting the evidence available to guide their care. With multiple drivers of
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Tyto Care Launches FDA-Cleared Fingertip Pulse Oximeter Medical Device
What You Should Know: - Tyto Care announces the launch of its fingertip Pulse
Oximeter device, allowing users to measure their own blood oxygen saturation
level and heart rate from the comfort and safety of home. - Expanding its clinic-quality remote capabilities, TytoCare users will be able to perform a remote blood oxygen exam, allowing clinicians to better monitor patients with COVID-19 and chronic lung or heart conditions. Tyto Care, a New York City-based all-in-one modular
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GE Healthcare Unveils First X-Ray AI Algorithm to Assess ETT Placement for COVID-19 Patients
What You Should Know: - GE Healthcare announced a new artificial intelligence
(AI) algorithm to help clinicians assess Endotracheal Tube (ETT) placements, a
necessary and important step when ventilating critically ill COVID-19 patients. - The AI solution is one of five included in GE Healthcare’s Critical Care Suite 2.0, an industry-first collection of AI algorithms embedded on a mobile x-ray device for automated measurements, case prioritization, and quality control. GE Healthcare
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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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Mobile Point-of-Care Ultrasound Is Now A Frontline Warrior in Pandemic
Health authorities need to prioritize delivery and the repurposing of mobile point-of-care ultrasound machines which have proven to be reliable, affordable, and effective in saving the lives of coronavirus patients. Most Americans are familiar with ultrasound technology from the scans done to check on the status of the fetus during pregnancy. But far fewer are aware of how valuable mobile versions of these units have also become in America’s emergency rooms where they almost
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Eko Lands $65M to Expand AI-Powered Telehealth Platform for Virtual Pulmonary and Cardiac Exam
What You Should Know: - Cardiopulmonary digital health company Eko raises $65M
in Series C funding to close the gap between virtual and in-person heart and
lung care. - The latest round of funding will enable Eko to expand
in-clinic use of its platform of telehealth and AI algorithms for disease
screening and to launch a monitoring program for cardiopulmonary patients at
home. Eko, a
cardiopulmonary digital
health company,
today announced $65 million in Series C funding led by
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Johnson & Johnson Innovation Launches 3 Collaborations to Advance Healthcare in China
What You Should Know: - Johnson & Johnson Innovation announces three strategic
collaborations with a focus on advancing healthcare solutions in China. - The three strategic collaborations are focused on leveraging advances in science and technology to address areas of high unmet medical need across several areas, including discovery science, lung cancer, and medical devices Johnson & Johnson Innovation, a division of Johnson & Johnson (China) Investment Limited, today
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Aptar Pharma Acquires the Assets of Respiratory Startup Cohero Health
What You Should Know: - Apstar Pharma acquires the assets of respiratory health company Cohero Health to expands its digital portfolio with a focus on respiratory disease management. - Cohero Health develops digital tools and technologies to improve respiratory care, reduce avoidable costs, and optimize medication utilization. AptarGroup, Inc., a global leader in consumer dispensing, active packaging, drug delivery solutions, and services, announces that it has acquired all operating
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Mayo Clinic Launches Vocal Biomarker Study for Pulmonary Hypertension Detection
What You Should Know: - Mayo Clinic announced a collaboration with Vocalis
Health to to research and develop new voice-based tools for screening, detecting
and monitoring patient health, beginning with a study to identify vocal
biomarkers to detect pulmonary hypertension (PH). - The clinical validation study will utilize Vocalis
Health’s proprietary software, which can operate on any connected voice
platform (mobile, computer, tablet, etc.) to analyze patients’ health based on
voice
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