Israeli startup Sweetch leverages AI for diabetes prevention
Earlier this year, the company, which raised $3.5 million in 2016, revealed the findings of a three-month study of its technology conducted at Johns Hopkins University.
IBM and Israeli hospital establish digital health accelerator
The program from IBM Israel and Hadassah Medical Center, which will begin in the first quarter of 2019 and last six months, is open to startups that have completed a post-seed round of financing, according to Israeli publication Globes.
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Oculus and VRHealth bring virtual reality to patient care
VRHealth is delivering its virtual reality solutions through Oculus Go and Rift to help patients manage their pain and alleviate their anxiety.
GE brings in AI-powered software to cardiac ultrasound device
GE Healthcare is incorporating an AI-powered software imaging analysis tool in its Vscan ultrasound device for cardiac ultrasound developed by an Israeli company
With $1.6B Mazor Robotics buy, Medtronic Spine hits reset button
An expensive failed acquisition, sales force flux, off-label use of a controversial biologics product, a DOJ investigation and nimble competitors chipping away has hobbled Medtronic's spine business. The purchase of Mazor Robotics aims to be a major reset.
How this startup’s medication safety tool aided Israel’s Sheba Medical Center
The medical center implemented MedAware's platform, which harnesses data analytics and machine learning to pinpoint prescription errors before they happen.
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The Healthcare Payments Industry Has a Perception Problem
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
CLEW Medical leverages AI to predict patient complications
The Israeli startup's analytics platform relies on a hospital's data set and seeks to identify potential complications like sepsis in ICU patients.
Regenera Pharma starts Phase III study, looks to tap US venture capital
Israeli company enrolls first patient in NAION study while seeking interest from US investors for additional VC funding.
Health Wildcatters portfolio company scores exit with Nike acquisition
The Invertex deal marks the second acquisition for Health Wildcatters, a Dallas-based health tech and life science accelerator in its fifth year.
Israel introduces big data project to make citizens’ health records available to researchers
Israel plans to invest 1 billion shekels (about $287 million) in a new project that will make its nearly 9 million citizens' health data digitally available to researchers. Though participation is optional, some have voiced privacy concerns regarding the initiative.
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This Israeli startup brings sensor-based smart tubes to the ICU
Art Medical, a company based in Israel and Palo Alto, has products that seek to prevent complications that can arise from intubation, including aspiration pneumonia, ventilator-associated pneumonia and acute kidney injury.
OurCrowd Qure expands investment targets, Luminox Health-JHU collaboration could deepen
A little more than one year after OurCrowd Qure launched a digital health fund and Luminox Health partnered with Johns Hopkins to validate medtech, a managing partner of the fund and CEO of Luminox, Dr. Yossi Bahagon, offered an update in response to emailed questions.
TytoCare raises $25 million to support telehealth expansion in U.S., China (Updated)
The strategic investment PinAn Global Voyager Fund provided will help TytoCare realize its ambitions of gaining a foothold in China.
Israeli medtech firm aims to tackle depression, opioid use with noninvasive brain stimulation
An Israeli public company hopes to free patients of multiple drugs that don't relieve major depression by offering a device approach to manage their condition.
Aidoc harnesses deep learning to improve the radiologist’s workflow
The Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup is leveraging artificial intelligence and deep learning to improve the radiology workflow. Its technology pinpoints abnormalities in a medical image.