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By  Trevor Dermody 06:10 pm April 19, 2024
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a comment from the NIH. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have developed an artificial intelligence tool that predicts whether a patient will respond to cancer-treatment drugs using individual tumor cells, according to a study published in Nature Cancer. Traditional approaches to...
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By  Trevor Dermody 12:35 pm April 18, 2024
Neural and psychological AI company NeuroBrave has partnered with Sourasky Medical Center’s Functional Neurology Unit in Tel Aviv, Israel, to accelerate research into complex neurological conditions.  The collaboration seeks to utilize AI for real-time translation of thoughts and intentions, which will allow completely paralyzed patients to effectively communicate with others and operate...
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By  Trevor Dermody 03:51 pm April 15, 2024
Phoenix-based Dot Compliance, which provides an AI-powered quality management system for compliance, announced it closed $17.5 million in Series B extension funding, bringing its total funding to $50 million. The funding round was led by existing investors IGP Capital and Vertex Ventures with additional investment from TPY Capital.  WHAT IT DOES Dot Compliance AI solutions provide a vendor-...
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By  Trevor Dermody 02:53 pm April 10, 2024
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...
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By  Trevor Dermody 04:31 pm April 9, 2024
Online special education and mental health services company eLuma has appointed Andy Myers as CEO.  eLuma, a Leeds Equity Partners company, provides mental health and behavioral support offerings, including speech-language teletherapy, for K-12 schools. Myers brings expertise in scaling operations to eLuma and previously held positions at learning and mentoring nonprofit Waterford, SaaS learning...
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By  Trevor Dermody 11:42 am April 9, 2024
Mobile ultrasound company Clarius Mobile Health partnered with AI ultrasound organization ThinkSono for a new application called ThinkSono Guidance, an AI-enabled application available in Europe that pairs with Clarius scanners to improve deep vein thrombosis (DVT) detection.  Clarius handheld wireless AI-powered ultrasound scanners connect to smartphones and deliver high-resolution ultrasound...
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By  Trevor Dermody 10:55 am April 3, 2024
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a statement from Pager. Virtual care and services navigation company Pager Health announced its developed three generative AI applications for payers built on Google Cloud, dubbed Chat Summation, FAQ Bot and Sentiment Analysis.  Chat Summation is a clinical documentation tool that summarizes patient interactions and provides notes, which the...
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By  Trevor Dermody 03:58 pm March 29, 2024
Conversational AI organization Openstream.ai announced a new patent for automated digital twin technology that gives EVA, or enterprise virtual assistant, users the ability to utilize virtual assistants that are digital twins of human experts in their respective fields.  The digital twins share their human counterparts' knowledge and unique personas and engage in empathetic, hallucination-free...
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By  Adam Ang 09:20 pm March 27, 2024
Funding worth A$6.5 million ($4 million) has been awarded to four genomics-focused research projects led by researchers from the University of Melbourne. These include a project that will establish a patient dataset of inherited retinal diseases; a rapid multi-omic liquid biopsy blood test using whole genome sequencing; research using next-generation sequencing to develop new solutions to...
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By  Adam Ang 10:46 pm February 28, 2024
Assisted reproductive service provider Virtus Health is taking its customer relations management to the cloud, enhanced by AI.  It has chosen American company RingCentral to deliver an integrated communications and contact centre solution across its 62 fertility clinics, day hospitals, and diagnostics centres worldwide, mostly in Australia. Featuring RingCentral MVP and Contact Centre, the...