AI

FDA Headquarters
By  Anthony Vecchione 03:30 pm December 4, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released guidance providing recommendations on what information should be included in a predetermined change control plan (PCCP) tailored to marketing AI-enabled medical devices. "This final guidance is part of the FDA's broader commitment to develop and apply innovative approaches to the regulation of device software functions and contains...
Employees reviewing data on a tablet
By  Anthony Vecchione 12:16 pm November 27, 2024
Cofactor AI, a company that helps hospitals appeal claims denials, announced it raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Drive Capital.  WHAT IT DOES Cofactor AI’s platform, Cofactor Denial Suite, combines with EHR systems and clearinghouses and immediately locates the exact contextual information required to generate successful appeals. Employing its proprietary medical-native foundation...
Professionals in a conference room
By  Anthony Vecchione 12:06 pm November 27, 2024
Practice Better, a practice management platform for health and wellness practitioners, announced it raised $13 million in growth capital funded by CIBC Innovation Banking. The funding comes one year after Practice Better scored a $27 million growth investment led by Five Elms Capital.  WHAT IT DOES Practice Better provides a suite of tools that integrate scheduling, telehealth, client engagement...
Two researchers in a laboratory using a digital tablet
By  Adam Ang 12:31 am November 18, 2024
A consortium of research institutes in South Korea has been formed to promote the utilisation of AI and national supercomputers in discovering novel drugs for treating lung cancer. According to a press statement, the following organisations will collaborate to develop and test AI for identifying novel drug candidates and predicting its efficacy:  DAAN Cancer Research Institute under Yonsei...
Healthcare professional reviewing imaging results
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:34 pm November 11, 2024
GE HealthCare and DeepHealth, a subsidiary of RadNet, announced they are collaborating on new AI imaging technology to further innovation, commercialization and adoption of AI in imaging. The companies will codevelop SmartTechnology, solutions that employ the power of AI to tackle key obstacles across the imaging value chain, such as helping increase the efficiency of imaging interpretation and...
AITRICS VitalCare software
By  Adam Ang 08:11 pm November 4, 2024
South Korean medical AI company AITRICS has obtained clearance from the Ministry of Health, Vietnam for its AI software for predicting patient deterioration. VitalCare utilises AI to analyse 19 types of EMR data of patients in general wards to predict possible death, ICU transfer, and cardiac arrest within six hours. It can also predict sepsis within four hours, cardiac arrest within 24 hours, as...
SmartRobin AI interface
By  Adam Ang 08:28 pm September 17, 2024
About a million possible cases of atrial fibrillation, a known risk for stroke, go undetected in Japan. A local startup is introducing an innovative AI targeting this growing danger. Founded in 2019, Cardio Intelligence develops a range of AI-powered solutions for continuous heart monitoring called SmartRobin AI.  The SmartRobin AI series is based on "explainable AI," which processes a huge...
Person sitting by a window wearing a stethoscope and looking at a tablet
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:29 pm August 30, 2024
WELL Health, a digital health company that integrates and updates clinical and digital assets, announced the approval of a $44 million project, Health Compass II, funded by the Canadian government and designed to continue enhancing AI and interoperability in healthcare. The initiative aims to streamline administrative tasks, enhance clinical decision-making and improve patient outcomes by...
A doctor reviewing a patient record on a desktop computer
By  Adam Ang 09:25 pm August 13, 2024
The Royal Australian College of GPs, the peak body for general practices in Australia, has released guidance for practitioners looking to adopt AI scribes to support clinical documentation. An AI scribe captures audio speech from a clinical encounter to convert it into text that becomes part of a patient's health record.  WHAT IT'S ABOUT RACGP initially suggests developing a policy on...
Automatic MRI scan analysis report generated by SNAC's AI-based platform iQ-solutions
By  Adam Ang 09:20 pm July 9, 2024
Sydney Neuroimaging Analysis Centre, an integrated neuroimaging research and commercial medical image analysis facility within the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre, has secured government grant funding to market its AI-powered software for analysing and monitoring brain diseases.  It also announced on 5 July that it obtained the Therapeutic Goods Administration's clearance for its...