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Sigsense leverages AI to help lab managers better understand how lab instruments are used and how to optimize them for efficiency.
ReviR Therapeutics secures $30 million for its drug discovery platform. RetiSpec raises $10 million for its eye-diagnostics offering. SoundHealth scores $7 million for its acoustics medical device for nasal congestion.
Scopio Labs secured $42 million in Series D funding, and robotics company NAVIGANTIS closed a $12 million Series A round.
The tech giant, UW School of Medicine and Public Health, Mass General Brigham and UW Health will develop multimodal AI foundation models utilizing Azure and Nuance.
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Amid the trend of healthcare companies leveraging AI, Jerry Villacres, Manifold's VP of Sales, Cloud Solutions, cautions that they must first implement a sound data strategy to make the most out of those tools.
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Mark Polyak, president of global data management at IPSOS, says LLMs can "talk" to patients about administrative tasks like scheduling, but bias and model compatibility must be addressed before clinical deployments.
Harvard research associate Brian Spisak discusses how a "leadership-first, tech-last" approach can prevent organisations from deploying ticking time bombs.
The three companies will collaborate with Mayo Clinic nurses to create a genAI documentation workflow tool that will integrate into Epic nursing workflows.
Michael Pace, founder and president of PalmHealthCo, highlights how his company advises organizations, including pharma, in commercialization and go-to-market strategies for digital therapeutics - and his experience at Pear Therapeutics.
Also, a Hong Kong project has received $5 million in funding to develop LLM-run companion robots for the mentally underserved.