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Smart stethoscope company Eko received a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, and Halo raised $2.6 million for its research and development collaboration tool.

LifePoint Health announced a partnership with Google Cloud to use its Healthcare Data Engine, and the National Institutes of Health will invest $130 million over four years to accelerate the use of AI in biomedical and behavioral research.

Also, Olympus has come up with the third-generation Visera Elite surgical visualisation platform for endoscopic procedures.

The Indian derma startup is also working to optimise its platform.

Redesign helps build, launch and find funding for digital health startups, including home-based care startup MedArrive, cancer care-coordination platform Jasper Health and hybrid mental health company UpLift.

Healthcare institutions will be successful if they unite clinical medicine and data science, says Simon Philip Rost, CMO at GE Healthcare Enterprise Digital Solutions.

Alphabet's life science arm also announces the company's founder Andy Conrad will step down as CEO. Current president Stephen Gillett will take on the role in January.

It can also predict falls by using AI and a deep sensing camera that observes a wearer's movement.

The solution screens for plus disease, which is associated with severe ROP.

Individuals are also less likely to trust AI-suggested interventions than those recommended by humans.