Orbita raises $9M; Building voice chatbots and search for healthcare, including provider focused solutions with EHR integration
CVS partners with Nuro to pilot prescription delivery using autonomous vehicles in Houston; Customers in three zip codes will be able to select autonomous delivery free of charge
Researchers use algorithm and fMRI data to predict which patients will emerge from post-cardiac arrest coma; Achieved 94% accuracy in study of 17 patients
DeepMind algorithm for predicting kidney decline shown in study to be less accurate for female patients; Women represented only 6% of training data
Telehealth startup Abridge is using NLP to automatically offer transcribed visit notes to patients and providers; UPMC currently offering service to patients
Mount Sinai Health System researchers publish study showing AI was able to detect COVID-19 in 17 of 25 lung CT scans that presented as normal
Amazon Web Services has enhanced accuracy of its Amazon Transcribe Medical speech-to-text service for COVID-19 related terms
Alphabet's DeepMind publishes study claiming high accuracy AI prediction of macular degeneration progression
Immunai raises $20M; Building out machine learning technology to map the immune system, aiding development of diagnostics and therapies
Nvidia launches Clara Guardian, an application framework to help hospitals deploy and connect smart, edge AI sensors
Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies launch virtual clinical study to map T cell immune response to COVID-19 to inform improved diagnostics; Part of broader partnership between two companies
Mayo Clinic and Ultromics researching use of AI image analysis for identifying high-risk COVID-19 patients using ECG readings
Intel launches NIH-funded collaboration with Penn Medicine to create distributed, privacy-focused federated learning network for training AI models to detect brain tumors
Owkin raises $25M as part of extended Series A; Building a virtual lab that allows researchers to safely share and utilize anonymized data sets
Babylon Health partnering with Mount Sinai Health Partners to bring telemedicine app, AI assistant, and symptom checker to New York; UK company intends to grow to operate in all 50 states
Researchers launch AI-driven predictive platform, Epitopes.world, to help speed COVID vaccine development; Adapted from algorithms initially developed for oncology
Analysis: AI tools and technologies will challenge established regulatory frameworks, as well as the authority of physicians
Dascena raises $50M Series B; Building algorithmic diagnostic platforms for early disease detection and intervention
Nines Radiology is making their new AI-based radiology triage tool available for free to existing customers through June
AITRICS partners with Cleveland Clinic to validate AI-driven critical events detection tool; Uses EMR data to provide early warnings of risk factors for complications
Google Health built a deep learning model to detect diabetic retinopathy from eye scans; It was 90% accurate, but the real-world trial was plagued by image quality & internet connectivity issues
Rome Therapeutics raises $50M Series A; developing novel therapies by using machine learning to investigate previously neglected sections of DNA
Hospitals are using Epic's machine-learning-driven deterioration index to help determine patient risk; First time system is seeing broad use
Verily, Google Cloud launch COVID-19 Pathfinder; customizable voice/chatbot for hospitals to answer patient questions
Paige raises $5 million more from Goldman Sachs to detect cancer with computer vision; Brings total raised to $75M
Nvidia launches Project MONAI AI framework; helps healthcare researchers reproduce AI-based experiments
Unlearn.AI, which is using machine learning to create "digital twins" for clinical trials, raises $12M Series A
Ferrum raises $9 million to double-check radiology scans & physician notes for discrepancies using AI
Walgreens expands telehealth using Microsoft chatbot technology to meet demand during coronavirus outbreak
Intel pledges $50 million in cash and resources to anti-coronavirus efforts - will directly help healthcare and life sciences companies with computing, cloud services, and tech
