Butterfly IQ

"Healthcare professional sitting at a desk with a window behind them while wearing a stethoscope around their neck and looking at a tablet"
By  Trevor Dermody 04:42 pm March 21, 2024
Digital ultrasound company Butterfly Network has achieved EU MDR certification for the Butterfly IQ+ ultrasound system, allowing the company to release its offerings into the European market, including its AI-enabled software Auto B-Line Counter and the company’s Pulse Wave Doppler (PWD).  Auto B line Counter uses AI to help providers determine patient abnormalities by measuring B-lines. B-lines...
Pregnancy
By  Laura Lovett 02:42 pm April 22, 2022
New research out of NEJM found that an artificial intelligence algorithm was able to estimate the gestational age of a fetus on par with a trained sonographer performing a fetal biometry.  The study, which was conducted in North Carolina and Zambia, collected ultrasound sweeps from 4,695 pregnant volunteers. Researchers collected blind sweep videos on both a commercial ultrasound machine and on a...
Butterfly
By  Laura Lovett 03:07 pm February 28, 2022
Butterfly Network, maker of a handheld, smartphone-connected ultrasound system, is rolling out a new ultrasound platform that can integrate into a health system's clinical workflow.  Dubbed Butterfly Blueprint, the system is able to integrate data from Butterfly's handheld ultrasound probe. The system uses Compass software to upload ultrasound scans and information to a provider's EHR system....
By  Dave Muoio 03:56 pm March 25, 2020
Butterfly Network, maker of a handheld, smartphone-connected ultrasound system, has disabled two software features that were implemented on its devices without first securing 510(k) clearance, according to notices recently published by the FDA. The Auto Ejection Fraction Tool and the Auto Bladder Volume Tool were introduced in the Butterfly IQ Ultrasound System's 1.10.0 and 1.13.0 software...
By  Dave Muoio 03:20 pm October 24, 2019
Butterfly Network, the very well-funded maker of a smartphone-connected, point-of-care ultrasound device, announced that it is releasing a suite of mobile-friendly tools for provider workflows. WHAT’S THE IMPACT Called Butterfly Enterprise, the platform connects with third-party ultrasound devices as well as the Butterfly iQ handheld device and the provider’s EHR or PACS systems. The system is...
By  Jonah Comstock 02:27 pm August 26, 2019
Nine years ago, the University of California at Irvine Medical School became the first medical school in the country to equip each of its 104 incoming students with their own iPads. This month, at the same White Coat Ceremony where that announcement was made back in 2010, Dr. Michael J. Stamos, the school’s dean, surprised the class of 2023 with another gift: Butterfly handheld ultrasound devices...
By  Jonah Comstock 03:52 pm October 31, 2017
New York City and Guilford, Connecticut-based Butterfly IQ has received FDA clearance for an iPhone-connected portable ultrasound scanner that uses an easy-to-manufacture semiconductor chip rather than the piezoelectric crystals used by traditional ultrasounds. Because of the semiconductor chip, the device will be offered at a much lower price point than existing ultrasounds, including existing...