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Cudis Raises $5M Sale Up Blockchain-based Smart Health Ring to Global Markets

Cayman Islands-based health tech startup CUDIS has secured $5 million in seed financing to improve AI health-centric features on its smart ring and scale its product to global markets.

The ring offers comprehensive, personalized health insights, guidance, and secure data ownership, empowering users to monitor their well-being seamlessly.

Read more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/funding-news/cudis-raises-5m-sale-up-blockchain-based-smart-health-ring-to-global-markets/

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Hippocratic AI Bags $137m to Build First Safety-focused GenAI Healthcare Agents

A California-based health-tech-focused company, Hippocratic AI, has secured $137 million in Series A funding round to advance innovative technologies in healthcare in collaboration with NVIDIA.

Founded in 2023 by Munjal Shah, Alex Miller, and Saad Godil, the company is developing the first safety-centered LLM for the healthcare sector.

Read more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/funding-news/hippocratic-ai-bags-137m-to-build-first-safety-focused-genai-healthcare-agents/

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Scientists Develop Advanced AI System to Track Athlete Health and Performance in Real-time

Researchers at Yıldız Technical University Mechatronic Engineering Department have unveiled an innovative health monitoring system leveraging the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence to offer monitoring and near real-time analysis of athlete’s health to avoid injury during performance.

According to a news report by Hurriyet Daily News, the system uses special hardware and software designed to analyze athletes’ health and performance as soon as they appear on camera.

Huseyin Uvet, researcher team leader and lecturer at the institution’s Mechatronic Engineering Department, stated that the AI-driven system can help identify potential risks early, ensuring athletes train healthily.

Read more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/healthcaretechnology/research/scientists-develop-advanced-ai-system-to-track-athlete-health-and-performance-in-real-time/

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Neuralink’s Blindsight Granted FDA Breakthrough Device Designation, Revolutionizing Vision Restoration Using Brain-Computer Interface

Neuralink, a startup focusing on developing brain-computer interface (BCI) implants, has received the FDA’s breakthrough device designation for Blindsight, a high-tech experimental implant developed to restore vision to people with total sight loss.

Blindsight is designed to send a microelectrode array into the visual cortex, the part of the brain responsible for receiving, segmenting, and integrating visual information from the retinas so that people can perceive images.

The array provides a visual image by activating the person’s neurons and allowing the user to perceive images in real-time.

Read more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/news/neuralinks-blindsight-granted-fda-breakthrough-device-designation/

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Radiant Biotherapeutics Secures $35M to Advance Therapeutic Platform for Life-threatening Diseases

Radiant Biotherapeutics, a Toronto-based pre-clinical biotechnology startup developing an advanced antibody platform to offer life-changing therapies for patients with life-threatening diseases, has secured $35 million in Series A funding round to fuel growth and advance its platform for clinics.

Led by Art Fratamico and Jo Hulme, the company’s platform offers diverse biologics to help fight difficult-to-treat illnesses such as infectious diseases, auto-immune, and cancer, allowing healthcare professionals to unlock cures for patients.

The funding round was led by Amplitude Ventures and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with significant contributions from BDC Capital, the investment wing of the Business Development Bank of Canada, and abrdn Inc.’s managed @abrdn.

Existing investors Alexandria Venture Investments, Toronto Innovation Acceleration Partners (TIAP), and FACIT also joined the round.

Read more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/funding-news/radiant-biotherapeutics-secures-35m-to-advance-therapeutic-platform-for-life-threatening-diseases/

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Zynx Health Joins Forces with Innovacer to Offer Evidence-Based Care Management Platform for Care Teams

Leading health technology companies Zynx Health and Innovaccer have partnered to transform population health and care management.

The strategic partnership, which leverages Zynx Health’s science-backed clinical decision-support solutions and Innovaccer’s comprehensive care management platform, aims to enhance financial, operational, clinical, and patient care outcomes to help address critical needs for healthcare providers.

Read more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/healthcare/primary-care/zynx-health-joins-forces-with-innovacer-to-offer-evidence-based-care-management-platform/

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Nirvana Raises $24.2M to Streamline Health Insurance Eligibility Verification

New York-based healthcare technology company Nirvana has secured $24.2 million in a Series A funding round to streamline healthcare insurance verification with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).

Co-founded in 2020 by Akshay Venkitasubramanian, Kelvin K Chan, and Urvish Parikh, Nirvana’s platform leverages AI and ML to help healthcare providers improve their transparency regarding health insurance eligibility and verification.

The just concluded round was led by Northzone, with notable contributions from Eniac Ventures, Inspired Capital, and Surface Ventures.

Read more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/funding-news/nirvana-raises-24-2m-to-streamline-health-insurance-eligibility-verification/

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AI-powered Stethoscope Detects Pregnancy-Related Heart Failure in Advance

A new clinical trial report has revealed that an AI-driven stethoscope could help clinicians detect a potentially fatal form of heart failure that can occur in the late stage of pregnancy.

According to the trial results published in Nature Medicine, the AI-driven stethoscope was 12 times more likely to detect heart pump weaknesses linked to peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) than the traditional methods widely used by clinicians.

According to Dr. Demilade Adedinsewo, lead researcher and cardiologist at Mayo Clinic, early detection of peripartum cardiomyopathy can be life-saving for women with PPCM.

Read more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/healthcare/women-health/ai-powered-stethoscope-detects-pregnancy-related-heart-failure-in-advance/

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Orthopedic Surgeon Launches AI Transcription App to Transform Clinical Workflow

Orthopedic Surgeon has launched a new AI medical transcription app to streamline the orthopedic documentation process, which usually takes much of the specialists’ quality time that could otherwise be used on patients.

As reported by Grit Daily, Dr. Sravan Dhulipala was inspired to develop the new medical AI technology after struggling to use the generalized medical scribes available on the market to automate orthopedic documentation. But he wasn’t alone; his colleagues also struggled with the same issues.

With no specific scribe developed for orthopedic transcription, Dhulipala developed the AI tool called OrthoScribe in partnership with Hannibal AI to help him transcribe his notes and those of his medical friends who were struggling to have the generalized applications work for them.

Read more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/healthcare/orthopedic/orthopedic-surgeon-launches-ai-transcription-app-to-transform-clinical-workflow/

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AI Technology Could Help Select Suitable Treatment Plans for Patients with Heart Failure

A team of experts from the University of Dundee’s School of Medicine has identified alternative medication for many patients currently on less effective or outdated treatment plans using Red Star AI.

As reported by Medical Xpress, the team used machine learning to analyze heart failure patients’ records in a pilot project to determine whether or not contemporary medications and knowledge could significantly improve their welfare.

Read more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/healthcaretechnology/personalized/ai-technology-could-help-select-suitable-treatment-plans-for-patients-with-heart-failure/

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AI Patient Monitoring Tool Lowers the Risk of Death for Hospitalized Patients

Researchers from the University of Toronto and Unity Health Toronto, ICES, have discovered new details about an AI-powered software that could help reduce the risk of death in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).

Read more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/healthcaretechnology/remote-patient-monitoring/ai-patient-monitoring-tool-lowers-the-risk-of-death-in-hospitals/

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SpectraWAVE Secures $50M to Improve Treatment for Coronary Artery Disease

A medical imaging company providing technology solutions to improve treatment for people with coronary artery disease, SpectraWAVE, Inc., has secured $50 million in Series B funding round to support commercial expansion and the addition of new products.

Co-founded in 2017 by Guillermo Tearney and Gregg Stone, SpectraWAVE has developed an intravascular imaging technology, HyperVue™ Imaging System, which leverages photonics to improve the outcomes for coronary artery disease patients.

Read more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/funding-news/spectrawave-secures-50m-to-improve-treatment-for-coronary-artery-disease/

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PathPresenter Secures $7.5M to Revolutionize Digital Pathology Workflows Using AI

A global medical pathology imaging sharing platform, PathPresenter, has secured $7.5 million in a series A funding round to speed up the adoption of its pathology workflow solution.

Co-founded in 2017 by KV Acharya, Cory Batenchuk, and Rajendra Singh MD, the company’s platform provides a HIPAA-compliant environment for medical image-sharing, allowing an effective collaboration between pathologists to provide better medical for their patients.

PathPresenter’s latest funding round was spearheaded by AVANT BIO, with a significant contribution from Modi Ventures and Barco NV.

Learn more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/funding-news/pathpresenter-secures-7-5m-to-revolutionize-digital-pathology-workflows-using-ai/

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Neurode Unveils Novel Wearable Headband to Treat and Track ADHD Symptoms

Sydney-based medical technology company Neurode has developed a novel wearable headband to offer relief to people living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which affects about 366 million adults across the globe.

According to Nathalie Gouailhardou, a neuroscientist and founder of Neurode, the device offers a non-invasive treatment alternative that requires only a few minutes of daily therapy sessions without facing the side effects associated with the use of pharmaceutical drugs.

Read more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/healthcaretechnology/wearables/neurode-unveils-novel-wearable-headband-to-treat-and-track-adhd-symptoms/

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FDA Approves First Ever OTC Hearing Aid Software for Airpod Pro Headphones

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever Over-the-counter hearing aid software device developed by Apple Inc. for use with compatible Apple AirPods Pro headphones.

The device software, Hearing Aid Feature, aims to revolutionize how people with hearing problems perceive sounds around them while also allowing them to access other features of the headphones.

Once installed on a compatible device, users can customize it according to their needs.

Compatible versions of AirPods Pro can also be used as over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids for individuals aged 18 and above, helping amplify the surrounding sounds for people with mild to moderate hearing problems.

Read more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/news/fda-approves-first-ever-otc-hearing-aid-software-for-airpod-pro-headphones/

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XRP Healthcare Launches AI Chatbot to Provide Personalize Healthcare Advice

XRP Healthcare, a health tech company integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain in the healthcare sector globally, has launched a revolutionary XRPH AI Chatbot to provide region-specific healthcare advice tailored to personal healthcare needs.

Founded in 2022 by Kain Roomes, the company aims to close the gap between advanced blockchain technology and daily healthcare needs.

The company’s XRPH AI Chatbot is its first major development undertaken by its in-house team, underscoring its commitment to levering AI technology to enhance healthcare services globally.

Learn more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/healthcaretechnology/digitalhealth/xrp-healthcare-launches-ai-chatbot-to-provide-personalize-healthcare-advice/

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Pieces Technologies Secures $25M to Advance Gen. AI for Hospital Care Teams

Pieces, an AI research and development company supporting in-patient care teams, has secured $25 million in growth funding to transform hospital care using clinical workflow AI.

Founded in 2015 by Dr. Ruben Amarasingham, MD as a spin-off of the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation, the Irving-based startup uses AI to streamline clinical workflows, helping ease the load on the clinical teams.

The founding round was backed by Children's Health, Concord Health Partners, OSF HealthCare, and Rittenhouse Ventures, raising new capital to help the company pursue its mission of helping nurses, doctors, and care managers free up more time for bedside care delivery.

Learn more: https://nextdigitalhealth.com/funding-news/pieces-technologies-secures-25m-to-advance-generative-ai-for-hospital-care-teams/

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