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- Distalmotion, a MedTech company with a mission to empower access to the benefits of robotic surgery secures $150M in Series G financing round led by Revival Healthcare Capital.
- The new funding will primarily be used to accelerate the U.S. commercial adoption of its soft tissue robotic surgery system, DEXTER. A major focus of the U.S. expansion is the Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) market, recognized as one of the fastest-growing segments in surgical care
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Baptist Health Adopts Surgical Robot for Weight Loss Surgery
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, a French-American pioneer in collaborative robotics, today announced that Baptist Health (Jacksonville, Florida) performed the first clinical procedures in the United States using the Maestro System. Three surgeons who practice at Baptist Health hospitals used the Maestro System over a week to perform sleeve gastrectomies - the most common bariatric (weight loss) surgery. The surgeons employed by North Florida Surgeons included Steven Hodgett, MD, FACS; Craig
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Caira Surgical Secures $5M for Robotic Solutions for Joint Replacement Surgery
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- Caira Surgical, a revolutionary computer-assisted navigation system for joint replacement surgery raises $5M from series seed investors to include a leading OUS Strategic and several MedTech venture funds. These include U.S.-based Mountain State Capital; Amsterdam-based Snowboat BV, a Dutch fund formed by the founders of Avania Clinical (previously Factory-CRO); and Grenoble, France-based Haventure, founded by Stephane Lavallee, Ph.D. Dr. Lavallee is also the Founder
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3 Barriers Stalling AI Adoption in Revenue Cycle Management
AI technology is quickly evolving and already surpassing human decision-making in certain instances; sometimes, in ways, we can’t explain. While many are alarmed by this, AI is producing some of the most effective and dramatic results in business today.
Adoption of AI in healthcare is growing, but there are still barriers to overcome
AI can be defined in many ways but, broadly, it is the ability of a machine to perform cognitive functions we associate with human minds, such as
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What’s AI’s Holdup in Healthcare? The Answer Is In The Cloud
When you consider what technology has the most potential to transform healthcare over the next decade and beyond, no doubt your first thoughts turn to artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL). Already these technologies are showing promise in helping clinicians work faster and smarter, identifying trends, alerting us to signs that can predict and prevent diseases, and providing insights into potential treatments and cures.
But AI, ML, and DL alone cannot
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Johnson & Johnson to Acquire Auris Health for $3.4B to Expand Digital Surgery Portfolio
Johnson & Johnson, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Auris Health, a developer of robotic technologies for $3.4 billion in cash. Auris Health is a privately held developer of robotic technologies, initially focused on lung cancer, with an FDA-cleared Monarch platform currently used in bronchoscopic diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. This acquisition will accelerate Johnson & Johnson’s entry into robotics and strengthens its digital surgery
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Accenture: Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Market to Reach $6.6B by 2021
The artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare market is expected reach $6.6 billion by 2021, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40 percent over the next five years, according to a new report from Accenture. The report reveals key clinical health AI apps can potentially create $150 billion in annual savings for the US healthcare economy by 2026.AI in health represents a collection of multiple technologies enabling machines to sense, comprehend, act and learn so they can perform
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