Hyperfine announced today that it completed its merger with HealthCor Catalio Acquisition Corp. and has gone public. Guilford, Connecticut-based Hyperfine initially announced the proposed merger with HealthCor, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in July. The company will receive approximately $160 million in gross cash proceeds from the business combination and a concurrent private placement, […]
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GE Healthcare completes $1.45B acquisition of BK Medical
GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) announced today that it completed its previously announced $1.45 billion acquisition of BK Medical. Boston-based GE Healthcare confirmed in September that the companies had entered into a definitive agreement for GE to purchase BK Medical, a developer of surgical visualization technologies. The acquisition adds real-time surgical visualization offerings to its pre-operative and […]
Hyperfine portable MRI wins Health Canada licensing
Hyperfine announced today that it received Health Canada licensing and began the Canadian commercial launch of its Swoop device. Guilford, Connecticut-based Hyperfine designed its Swoop system for portable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), touting it as the first such device to garner FDA clearance. According to a news release, the licensing of Swoop in Canada includes […]
Novocure signs agreement to build development facility in New Hampshire
Novocure (NSDQ:NVCR) announced today that it signed a purchase and sale agreement for an office building in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The agreement covers the acquisition and construction of the building at 64 Vaughan Mall, situated centrally in downtown Portsmouth. The purchase price for the property totals $9.5 million and, after closing (expected on or before […]
FDA clears Amra Medical’s MRI-based muscle assessment scanner
Amra Medical today announced that its Amra Mass Scan has received FDA 510(k) clearance. Sweden-based Amra Medical designed Mass Scan to provide magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans using muscle and fat biomarkers. It has a rapid neck-to-knee MRI protocol that produces actionable patient-specific reports. Reports created by Mass Scan contain the muscle assessment score and […]
Lenovo, LG to collaborate on radiology technology
Lenovo and LG announced today that they are collaborating on new medical imaging solutions to aid the radiology community. According to a news release, the companies will work together to bundle LG’s high-performance medical monitors with the Lenovo original equipment manufacturer (OEM) solutions commercial third-party portfolio of offerings. “Proven technologies that can support the most […]
FDA clears Insightec Exablate Prostate device
Insightec announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Exablate Prostate system for treating prostate tissue. Haifa, Israel-based Insightec designed its Exablate Prostate system to use high-intensity focused ultrasound to ablate targeted tissue in the prostate. Health providers perform the procedure under magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guidance for high-resolution visualization of the patient’s […]
FDA clears virtual reality surgical planning tool from PrecisionOS
PrecisionOS announced today that it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its InVisionOS virtual reality-based planning tool. Vancouver, British Columbia-based PrecisionOS designed InVisionOS as a patient-specific planning tool that uses VR. The patented software allows surgeons to use an Oculus Quest 2 device to conduct preoperative surgical planning. According to a news release, PrecisionOS expects InVisionOS […]
Health Canada licenses Medtronic’s GI Genius endoscopy module for colonoscopy
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) announced today that it received Health Canada license for its GI Genius intelligent endoscopy module. The company’s Brampton, Ontario-based Medtronic Canada subsidiary received the license for the computer-aided detection (CADe) system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to highlight regions of the colon suspected to have visual characteristics consistent with different types of mucosal […]
GE Healthcare unveils new CT platform with built-in scalability
GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) today unveiled its Revolution Apex computed tomography (CT) platform with built-in scalability. Revolution Apex was designed with onsite CT detector upgrades from 40 mm to 80 mm or 160 mm detector coverage, all without replacing the gantry. The goal is to help radiology departments to better stay ahead of the technology curve, […]
Philips adds new AI-enabled platforms to CT imaging portfolio
Royal Philips (NYSE:PHG) announced today that it made two new artificial intelligence-powered additions to its CT imaging portfolio. Amsterdam-based Philips unveiled the new CT 5100 Incisive platform with CT Smart Workflow at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago. According to a news release, the company designed the new AI-enabled CT […]