Tech-backed pharmacy benefit manager SmithRx scooped up $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Venrock, with participation from existing investors, including Founders Fund.
The company pitches its Drug Acquisition Platform as a way to provide lower-cost medications, so its employer customers can save on their healthcare spend. According to SmithRx, the platform uses algorithms for each...
Vara and Mitera Hospital launch AI breast cancer screening tech in Greece
German deeptech startup Vara has announced a partnership with Mitera Hospital in Athens, a member of Hellenic Healthcare Group (HHG).
Vara’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered software will be used to support and complement the work of radiologists at Mitera’s screening centres to improve efficiency and increase screening...
French imaging AI company GLEAMER scored FDA 510(k) clearance for its software designed to identify fractures in X-rays.
BoneView uses artificial intelligence to detect potential fractures and sends results to radiologists for confirmation. The software received a CE mark in Europe in March 2020.
"In the value-based U.S. healthcare system, providers tell us they want to improve the radiographic...
Radiology startup Sirona Medical is acquiring the AI capabilities and some personnel from fellow radiology-focused company Nines.
The deal includes Nines' clinical data pipeline, machine learning engines, AI-enabled workflow management and analytics tools, but not the company's teleradiology business. Some personnel will also be moving to Sirona, including chief revenue officer Maureen Bradford....
The reimbursement channel for digital health apps in Europe has traditionally been long and complex.
But new analysis from Research2Guidance (R2G) predicts reimbursement opportunities will improve significantly over the next few years.
An R2G report has categorised European countries into groups of leaders, fast followers, certifiers and laggards, based on their public health insurance system’s...
Baheya Foundation – an Egyptian non-profit that provides breast cancer treatment free of charge – has partnered with GE Healthcare to explore the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve outcomes in patients.
According to GE Healthcare, it is working with the foundation and its hospital to “develop and validate the use of AI to assess and predict the response of neoadjuvant therapy” in...
EHR documentation burden is not a new concern, but the problem came to a head during the COVID-19 pandemic as nurses and other clinicians were under growing pressure to provide care to more and more patients during virus surges.
"This is something that, ever since EHRs have been about, there have always been usability issues. Do we really need to be documenting that? How do we document things...
Qure.ai scores £3.2M for AI-aided cancer detection
Artificial intelligence (AI) provider Qure.ai has secured £3.2 million from SBRI Healthcare, in partnership with the NHS cancer programme and NHS Accelerated Access Collaborative.
The funding will be used to demonstrate real-world evidence of AI-aided lung cancer diagnosis, using the firm’s qXR chest X-ray interpretation technology.
Prof David...
Doximity, a networking platform for healthcare professionals, has entered into an agreement to acquire on-call physician scheduling and messaging app Amion.
According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the deal will set Doximity back $53.5 million in cash at the time of closing, plus an earnout consideration of up to $24 million subject to performance.
The company will also...
A Nigeria-based company has just secured one of the largest funding rounds for an African healthtech venture to date.
Reliance Health, a digital health insurance provider that uses technology and data science to transform all aspects of the health insurance experience – from purchasing premiums to accessing care, for example – has closed a total of $40 million (€35 million) in Series B funding....
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