What You Should Know:
- MediView XR, Inc., raises $9.9M in SAFE financing syndicated by Inside View Investments, LLC, a private investment firm. MediView has raised approximately $14.4MM in total funding to date.
- Investment will support key technology development, commercialization and regulatory submissions.
MediView XR Inc., a Cleveland-based medtech company that leverages augmented reality, remote connectivity and spatial computing data to create revolutionary surgical
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Ultrasound
Butterfly Launches System-Wide Ultrasound w/AI-Guided Option
What You Should Know:
- Butterfly Network today launched Butterfly Blueprint, a system-wide platform that supports scaled deployment of ultrasound across hospitals and health systems.
- Blueprint integrates ultrasound information into health systems’ clinical and administrative systems and workflows. That means clinicians across all disciplines now have a tool that allows them to see and know results sooner to drive better care
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Butterfly Network & Ambra Health Partner to Enhance Ultrasound Data Integration
What You Should Know:
- Butterfly Network, Inc. (NYSE: BFLY), a digital health company transforming care with handheld, whole-body ultrasound, and Ambra Health, an Intelerad Company, and maker of a leading cloud-based, medical image management suite, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate and simplify interoperability for bedside imaging data.
- Working together, Butterfly and Ambra will empower providers and departments across
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Clarius Launches 10 New Ultrasound Scanners for Apple and Android Devices
What You Should Know:
- Miniaturized to the size of an iPhone, Clarius Mobile Health launches a third-generation product line of high-performance handheld wireless ultrasound scanners for all medical specialists.
- The entire Clarius HD3 line of ultra-portable scanners is built with the latest antenna technology for steadfast connectivity operating on both iOS and Android devices. Octal beamforming technology delivers up to eight times faster frame rates and micron-level resolution
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UltraSight, GE Healthcare Partner to Bring Wireless Cardiac Point of Care Ultrasound
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- Today UltraSight, a digital health pioneer, announced a new partnership with GE Healthcare that will bring AI-assisted wireless, cardiac ultrasound to space. They will conduct a study aboard the upcoming Axiom ‘Rakia’ space mission and record images of an astronaut’s heart in microgravity, using UltraSight’s real-time AI guidance software and GE Healthcare’s handheld GE Vscan AirTM.
- The goal of this study is to prove how easy it is to acquire accurate
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Exo Raises $220M to Commercialize Handheld, Point-of-Care Ultrasound Device
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- Exo (pronounced “echo”), a pioneering health information and devices company, announced it has raised $220M in Series C investment round led by RA Capital Management and joined by BlackRock, Sands Capital, Avidity Partners and Pura Vida Investments.
- The funding will fund the commercialization of its patented handheld medical device and its intuitive point-of-care ultrasound workflow solution, Exo Works. This brings Exo’s total funding to more than $320M.
Exo
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EchoNous Closes $60M for AI-Assisted Handheld Ultrasound Device
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- EchoNous, a Redmond, WA-based portable AI-guided ultrasound tools and platform, announced it has raised $60 million in funding from Kennedy Lewis Investment Management (“Kennedy Lewis”).
- The investment from Kennedy Lewis combines senior secured debt and equity and builds on the support of KKR, which has been EchoNous’ principal investor since 2015. Kennedy Lewis' funding will help further the development of and grow adoption for the Kosmos platform, which is
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UltraSight Raises $13M to Bring AI-Guided Cardiac Ultrasound to Point of Care
What You Should Know:
- UltraSight, an Israeli based digital health company focused on transforming cardiac sonography through the power of machine learning, announced today that it has closed a $13 million Series B funding round.
- Cardiac sonography is a skill that takes years to develop. It requires daily practice to achieve a high level of proficiency, resulting in a shortage of highly specialized professionals. UltraSight offers clinicians, with no prior sonography training, the
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Philips, Ibex Medical Analytics Partner on AI-Powered Digital Pathology Adoption
What You Should Know:
- Philips and Ibex Medical Analytics announced a strategic partnership to globally commercialize clinically proven, AI-powered digital pathology solutions. The collaboration further cements Philips’ commitment to integrated diagnostics providing a clear path to precision diagnosis.
- The trend towards centralized pathology labs, the global shortage of trained pathologists, and increasing demands on histopathology posed by the growing number of cancer
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Intel, Samsung Partner on AI-Based Ultrasound Solution for Anesthesia Administration
What You Should Know:
- Samsung Medison and Intel are collaborating on NerveTrack™, a real-time nerve tracking ultrasound feature that helps anesthesiologists identify nerves in a patient’s arm to help administer anesthesia quickly and accurately. Leveraging the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit for computer vision and annotation, Samsung Medison’s NerveTrack™ can reduce scanning time by up to 30 percent in an extremely
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