9 HLTH Announcements You Don’t Want to Miss
Here are nine notable announcements shared at the HLTH conference held this week in Las Vegas.
With $110M in new funds, Aidoc is branching out of radiology
Aidoc, a Tel Aviv-based startup providing software to help radiologists triage scans, closed a $110 million funding round on Thursday. The company will use the money to expand its AI platform and develop care coordination tools for various specialties instead of focusing solely on radiology.
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Startup making AI tools to assist radiologists gets $66M
Aidoc, a Tel Aviv-based startup building a suite of decision support tools for radiologists, raised $66 million in funding. The company plans to use the funds to build out and market its suite of radiology solutions.
Aidoc gets FDA clearance for AI to detect unsuspected pulmonary embolism
The regulatory clearance would allow AIdoc’s system to be used to detect incidental pulmonary embolism, meaning that it could flag unsuspected findings in CT scans.
Aidoc builds algorithms to flag potential Covid-19 cases from CT scans
Aidoc received authorization from the Food and Drug Administration to use its algorithms to detect likely Covid-19 cases in CT scans. The FDA issued guidelines allowing vendors with cleared triage solutions to expand their coverage to Covid-19.
Rad AI, developer of workflow automation tool for radiology, raises $4M in seed round
Most AI-powered startups in radiology tackle an image problem, but Rad AI have been focused on a workflow problem by automatically generating the impressions section of a radiologist’s report, which is a summary of the report’s other sections.
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Aidoc gets third FDA nod for AI-based cervical spine fracture algorithm
The regulatory decision comes just a few weeks after the FDA cleared the company's pulmonary embolism product.
Aidoc gets FDA nod for AI pulmonary embolism screening tool
The FDA decision, which builds on a prior approval of the company's algorithm for the detection of intracranial hemorrhages through CT scans, is part of a larger vision sketched out by CEO Elad Walach of plugging new algorithms into the Aidoc system to create a new standard of care in radiology.
AI-based medical imaging startup Aidoc raises a $27 million Series B
Aidoc pitches its product as a way to more quickly scan and detect potential issues in medical images.
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.
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