Emerging Technologies

A group of clinicians discussing an X-ray report on a television screen
By  Adam Ang 09:34 am May 21, 2024
Medtech offers API integration for real-time radiology reporting Auckland-headquartered Medtech Global has recently worked with Zed Technologies and private diagnostics imaging company Horizon Radiology to enable real-time radiology reporting for general practitioners. They have established real-time API connection through the Zed medical image-sharing platform so diagnostics providers can...
Healthcare provider wearing scrubs and a face mask while looking at screens with diagnostic images on them
By  Jessica Hagen 08:48 pm May 15, 2024
The Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group released a roadmap for AI policy in the U.S. Senate, encouraging the Senate Appropriations Committee to fund cross-government artificial intelligence research and development projects, including research for biotechnology and applications of AI that would fundamentally transform medicine.  The group acknowledges AI's various use cases, including those within...
Healthcare provider in scrubs wearing a mask and looking at a large diagnostic image
By  Jessica Hagen 02:14 pm May 10, 2024
A study performed by Google Research, in collaboration with Google DeepMind, reveals the tech giant expanded the capabilities of its AI models for Med-Gemini-2D, Med-Gemini-3D and Med-Gemini Polygenic.  Google said it fine-tuned Med-Gemini capabilities using histopathology, dermatology, 2D and 3D radiology, genomic and ophthalmology data.  The company's Med-Gemini-2 was trained on conventional...
A doctor using a laptop to write referrals
By  Adam Ang 08:15 pm May 5, 2024
Consultmed to replatform to InterSystems' IRIS for Health Consultmed is moving its referral management software to InterSystems IRIS for Health data platform.  The move comes as the health IT provider looks to "do integrations at scale." Hosted on Microsoft Azure, Consultmed enables referral management, virtual triage, Advice & Guidance, secure messaging, digital patient forms, requests for...
Human genome analysis DNA molecular structure
By  Nathan Eddy 01:46 pm May 3, 2024
AI-enabled protein design company Profluent has leveraged artificial intelligence to design an open-source gene editor called OpenCRISPR-1, demonstrating the technology can be used to create molecules with the power to edit human DNA. Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) technology, developed more than a decade ago, allows scientists to modify DNA sequences within...
Healthcare professional sitting at a desk looking at a computer
By  Jessica Hagen 12:29 pm April 26, 2024
OpenAI and Moderna announced the pair have expanded their partnership to offer the pharma giant's employees access to ChatGPT Enterprise, a platform that allows customizable GPTs to be developed for a specific purpose.  Through ChatGPT Enterprise, users can create GPTs by beginning a conversation with ChatGPT, then providing extra knowledge on a subject or giving it instructions. Users can also...
Blood test lab illustration
By  Trevor Dermody 02:45 pm April 25, 2024
Israel-based Scopio Labs announced the FDA granted De Novo clearance for its Full-Field Bone Marrow Aspirate (FF-BMA) software that provides AI-enabled decision support tools for bone marrow analysis.  The FF-BMA application allows for bone marrow aspirate analysis. It combines full-field imaging and an AI-powered decision support system that allows hematopathologists to analyze bone marrow...
A HaptX Glove
By  Trevor Dermody 08:55 am April 25, 2024
Old Dominion University, Washington-based HaptX and Georgia Institute of Technology won a grant to further virtual reality development for the visually impaired using glove-based streaming of braille characters and digital images.  The project will explore how visually impaired people experience virtual environments by using HaptX gloves to interact with streaming digital images and objects....
Scientist in a lab wearing safety goggles while putting something in a beaker
By  Jessica Hagen 02:21 pm April 24, 2024
Xaira Therapeutics, an AI-enabled drug discovery and development company, announced its launch with more than $1 billion in capital.   The biotechnology company is a joint incubation by ARCH Venture Partners and Foresite Labs, the lead investors in the funding round.  Lux Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, F-Prime, Rsquared, SV Angel, Menlo Ventures, Sequoia Capital, NEA, the Parker Institute for...
Healthcare provider sitting at a desk in the clinical setting while looking at a computer
By  Jessica Hagen 10:31 am April 24, 2024
Prior authorization automation platform Cohere Health and health insurer Humana announced they are expanding their 2021 partnership, which focused on the prior authorization process for musculoskeletal issues, to include diagnostic imaging and sleep services. The Cohere Unify Platform leverages AI to accelerate the prior authorization process by using predictive technology and clinical...