artificial intelligence

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By  Anthony Vecchione 10:17 am December 19, 2024
Precision medicine startup Promise Bio announced that it has emerged from stealth with an $8.3 million seed investment. Awz Ventures led the round with funding from AION Lab's venture seeding track from AstraZeneca and Pfizer, which provided Promise Bio with financial backing to accelerate the development of its platform.  In addition to the funding, the company received a grant from the Israel...
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By  Anthony Vecchione 09:35 am December 10, 2024
Hackensack Meridian Health is one of the largest integrated healthcare networks in New Jersey, with18 hospitals and more than 500 patient care locations, including ambulatory care centers, surgery centers, home health services, ambulance services, air medical transportation, rehabilitation centers, urgent care centers, physician practice locations, and a fitness and wellness center. The network...
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By  Jessica Hagen 03:31 pm October 22, 2024
Amazon's hybrid primary care provider One Medical announced the launch of new AI tools to help ease its providers' administrative workload powered by AWS generative AI services, Amazon Bedrock and AWS HealthScribe. One Medical providers will be able to use HealthScribe to capture details discussed in real-time during patient visits, then subsequently review, update and approve the AI-generated...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:15 pm October 21, 2024
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released its perspective on regulating AI in healthcare and biomedicine, stating that oversight needs to be coordinated across all regulated industries, international organizations and the U.S. government.  The Agency says it regulates industries that distribute their products to the global market, and therefore U.S. regulatory standards must be...
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By  Jessica Hagen 10:47 am October 18, 2024
Tech giant Lenovo, alongside Innovations in Dementia, announced a proof-of-concept project dubbed Alzheimer's Intelligence, a photorealistic AI-enabled 3D avatar that converses with individuals with dementia. It offers curated advice gathered from hundreds of real people living with dementia and Alzheimer's. Lenovo's technology aggregates experience and advice collected from hundreds of...
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:38 pm October 17, 2024
Google announced it is licensing its AI model focused on detecting diabetic retinopathy to partners in Thailand and India, two countries the tech giant says have a shortage of eye specialists.  Google Research teams partnered with foundational research partners Aravind Eye Hospital in India and Rajavithi Hospital in Thailand nearly a decade ago to research whether AI could be used to help reduce...
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By  Anthony Vecchione 01:12 pm October 15, 2024
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a quote from iCardio.ai CEO. Los Angeles-based iCardio.ai has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its artificial intelligence software for interpretation of echocardiography, aimed at offering a comprehensive imaging workflow and autonomous preliminary reporting. iCardio.ai develops machine learning and deep learning algorithms for the examination...
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By  Anthony Vecchione 10:21 pm October 11, 2024
Microsoft unveiled a number of Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare innovations designed to connect experiences, boost team collaboration, empower healthcare workers and unleash clinical and operational insights. The company is launching healthcare AI models, a collection of "cutting-edge" multimodal medical-imaging foundation models that will be accessible in the Azure AI model catalog. The models,...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:44 pm October 10, 2024
Suki, maker of an AI-backed healthcare voice tool, announced it raised $70 million in Series D funding, bringing its total raise to $165 million. Hedosophia led the round, with additional investment from Venrock and participation by existing investors Flare Capital, March Capital, inHealth Ventures and Breyer Capital. WHAT IT DOES Suki's offerings include Suki Assistant, an AI-enabled voice tool...
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By  Anthony Vecchione 01:21 pm October 8, 2024
Kipu Health, a company that provides technology solutions for behavioral health, announced it is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver a suite of original AI solutions for healthcare providers.  The initial offering within the AI suite is designed to simplify clinical workflows by transcribing patients' sessions, generating progress notes and delivering chart summaries for...