Avenda Health received FDA 510(k) clearance for AI-backed clinical decision support software that assists physicians in prostate cancer care.
iQuest, which officially received the agency green light late last month, is meant to be used alongside MRI and biopsy results. The system uses specific patient data and deep learning to build a "tailored map" showing where cancer is located in the prostate...
UK-based Ultromics announced Tuesday that its machine learning-based decision-support system used to help detect heart failure with preserved ejection fraction had received FDA 510(k) clearance.
EchoGo Heart Failure, which was developed in partnership with the Mayo Clinic, aids physicians in diagnosing the condition by providing them with echocardiogram imaging results in people over 25 years old...
A review of studies published in JAMA Network Open found few randomized clinical trials for medical machine learning algorithms, and researchers noted quality issues in many published trials they analyzed.
The review included 41 RCTs of machine learning interventions. It found 39% were published just last year, and more than half were conducted at single sites. Fifteen trials took place in the U....
Lyfegen, which offers a platform for value-based contracting for high-cost drugs, announced it had raised $8 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by aMoon, with participation from APEX Ventures and other investors. The startup, which is headquartered in Switzerland and the U.S., offers software that aims to help pharma companies, payers, providers and medical technology companies adopt...
A machine learning algorithm can accurately detect traumatic intracranial hemorrhage using information collected before patients reach the hospital, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
Researchers built a prehospital triage system using data paramedics could provide, including the patient’s age, sex, systolic blood pressure, heart rate, body temperature, respiratory rate,...
A combined approach using both face-to-face screenings and a machine learning model embedded in an EHR performed best at predicting suicide risk among adults, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
The study included more than 120,000 encounters in inpatient, ambulatory surgical and emergency department settings from more than 83,000 patients. It found the hybrid approach that used...
London-based healthtech company Abtrace has raised £2.1 million of seed funding in a round led by Faber and joined by Ganexa Capital.
The Abtrace technology aims to enable the management of long-term health conditions to move from a reactive, to a proactive process informed by data.
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Abtrace has built an AI tool which can plug-into the Electronic Health Record (EHR) database and...
Net Health, a software and analytics tools developer for specialty healthcare providers, released two AI-powered capabilities within its EHR to reduce the risk of amputations and predict how quickly wounds will heal.
The company’s Risk of Amputation Indicator uses predictive analytics to tell clinicians how likely it is that a wound could lead to an amputation, and the Wound Healing Velocity...
Maven Clinic, a virtual women’s and family healthcare provider, announced Tuesday it raised $110 million in Series D funding, bringing the clinic’s funding total to more than $200 million.
The round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Lux Capital, with participation from BOND, Oprah Winfrey and existing investors Sequoia, Oak HC/FT and Icon Ventures.
Maven said it plans to use the funding...
In May 2020, healthcare software company Orion Health announced the New Zealand Algorithm Hub, a center for scenario modeling, risk prediction, forecasting and planning to support the country’s response to COVID-19.
For Kevin Ross, PhD, CEO of Precision Driven Health and chair of the hub’s governance group, one key to ethically using machine learning to manage the pandemic was the makeup of the...
