Tech giant Google Cloud and global enterprise Bayer are partnering to develop AI applications aimed at reducing radiologist burnout and increasing efficiencies in diagnoses.
Bayer will expand its innovation platform by using Google Cloud technology, including its generative AI tools. Other tools that will be available on the platform include Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, BigQuery, Healthcare API...
Covera Health, an AI-enabled clinical data analysis company focused on improving radiology readings, announced it secured an additional $50 million in Series C funding and finalized its acquisition of CoRead, which uses AI to flag medical errors on radiology examinations.
The funds add to the company's $25 million Series C round announced in 2021.
Insight Partners led the 2021 round and the...
Vietnamese healthcare AI developer VinBrain has started a new partnership with Stanford University to enhance AI medical imaging.
Based on their latest data use agreement, Stanford will initially provide VinBrain access to about 240,000 anonymised medical images and reports to train and test the AI on its DrAid clinical decision support platform while also helping improve the accuracy of an...
South Korean medical AI company Lunit is further cementing its global presence after securing a new international distribution deal and major market approvals.
Last week, it announced that Lunit INSIGHT CXR and MMG have been given the UK Conformity Assessed marking and CE marking under the latest Medical Device Regulation in Europe.
The company claims it has become the first software as medical...
AI-backed imaging and care coordination company Viz.ai announced a partnership with Us2.ai to utilize its echocardiogram analysis tool.
This marks the second such partnership for the Singaporean startup, which last month announced it had inked a deal to integrate its algorithm into Aidoc's platform.
Us2.ai's software looks for optimal images, takes measurements of the heart's structure and...
SEHA, the largest healthcare network in the United Arab Emirates, has entered into a collaboration agreement with South Korean medical AI company Lunit to try out its AI radiology solutions.
Formally the Abu Dhabi Health Services Co., the organisation runs 13 public hospitals and 46 clinics.
According to a press release, SEHA will conduct a proof of concept (POC) of Lunit's suite of radiology...
AI-backed imaging and care coordination company Viz.ai received FDA 510(k) clearance for an algorithm that could help determine the severity of a pulmonary embolism.
The startup received the agency's green light late last month for its RV/LV ratio algorithm, which measures the diameter of the ventricles of the heart to provide the ratio of the maximum right ventricle diameter compared with the...
South Korean AI company Lunit has signed a license agreement with Taiwan-based insurance firm Cathay Life Insurance to integrate its AI chest x-ray software into the latter's underwriting workflow.
WHY IT MATTERS
The Taiwanese insurer is reviewing around 30,000 chest x-ray images each year and it is in need of a solution that reduces reading time.
Two years ago, it tapped Lunit for a proof-of-...
South Korean AI startup Lunit has received regulatory clearances from Health Canada for its AI solutions for radiology.
According to a press statement, both its chest x-ray solution INSIGHT CXR and mammography software INSIGHT MMG are now approved for commercial release in Canada.
INSIGHT CXR can detect 10 of the most common chest abnormalities with 97%-99% accuracy while INSIGHT MMG analyses...
AI-enabled imaging company Aidoc scooped up $110 million in a Series D funding round.
The round was led by TCV and Alpha Intelligence Capital with participation from AIC's co-investor CDIB Capital. The investment, which comes nearly a year after the startup announced its $66 million Series C, brings Aidoc's funding pot to $250 million.
WHAT IT DOES
Aidoc offers tools that help radiologists find...
