Siemens Healthineers raised the curtain on a new radiation therapy system that can deliver treatments while the patient holds a single breath. The Varian Accela radiotherapy system is built around the company’s NeoArc dynamic modulated arc therapy, or DMAT, which employs a faster gantry and dose rate along with a 186-leaf collimator for precise beam […]
Imaging
GE HealthCare hires chief AI officer from Medtronic
GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) has hired Medtronic’s former chief artificial intelligence officer, Rodolphe Katra, to help lead its efforts in building AI enterprise platforms and modernizing imaging software ecosystems. In a LinkedIn post announcing the move, GE HealthCare President and CEO Peter Arduini touted the company’s 134 AI-powered medical devices authorized by the FDA to […]
UltraSight raises $24M in Series B2 to scale AI-guided cardiac ultrasound technology
AI-guided cardiac technology developer UltraSight has raised $24 million in Series B2 financing, the company announced. The financing will support the company’s commercial expansion in the United States and the development of new software systems for intensive care and circulatory support settings, UltraSight said. Alive HealthTech Grow Fund led the round with an undisclosed investment. […]
GE HealthCare taps retiring AT&T CFO for board of directors
GE HealthCare (NASDAQ: GEHC) has appointed AT&T’s chief financial officer, Pascal Desroches, to serve on its board of directors. Desroches has served as AT&T’s CFO since 2021, and he plans to retire at the end of this year. Prior to that, he held the same role at WarnerMedia, overseeing financial operations across HBO, Turner Broadcasting […]
GE HealthCare rolls out AI software for predicting care bottlenecks
GE HealthCare (Nasdaq: GEHC) is launching a software application designed to help health systems predict capacity bottlenecks up to three days early, providing analyses at unit, department and enterprise-wide levels. The CareIntellect for Operations platform will join the company’s broader CareIntellect catalog of cloud-connected software. Backed by artificial intelligence programs, it is designed to track […]
Siemens Healthineers completes $44M R&D, manufacturing site expansion
Siemens Healthineers completed a $43.6 million expansion of its positron emission tomography (PET) Detector Center in Rockford, Tennessee, the company announced yesterday. The project added 40,000 ft² to the nearly 100,000 ft² manufacturing and R&D facility, and will add more than 90 new jobs over the next five years, Siemens Healthineers said. “We are making […]
Ropca wins FDA clearance for ultrasound automation systems
Danish medtech company Ropca will bring its autonomous musculoskeletal ultrasound system to the U.S. after receiving FDA 510(k) clearance. The system features two components: Arthur and Diana, which together capture and analyze ultrasound images of finger, hand and wrist joints. Arthur performs standardized musculoskeletal ultrasound scans, and Diana, an AI software, develops AI-assisted analyses and […]
Petal Surgical says its first-in-human incisionless surgery is coming soon and offers a first glimpse of its system
Petal Surgical is “moving out of the lab” and toward human trials of its incisionless surgery platform in the near future, the surgical tech startup tells MassDevice. The histotripsy developer is almost finished with its controlled, in-vivo preclinical studies, saying they will yield a first-of-its kind dataset demonstrating “the extent to which [the] platform can […]
Philips has a new single-transducer offering for its women’s health ultrasound
Philips (NYSE: PHG) is expanding its obstetrics and gynecology ultrasound portfolio with the introduction of the eV14-2v transvaginal transducer. FDA 510(k) cleared and CE-marked, the eV14-2v combines image quality and broad clinical capabilities in a single lightweight transducer, according to Philips. Philips says the eV14-2v is meant to minimize the need to switch between transducers to […]
Elucid raises $55M Series D for cardio imaging tech
Elucid announced the end of its Series D financing round, having raised $55 million and bringing the company’s total funds raised to date to $185 million. The Boston-based company will utilize the investments to accelerate commercial expansion of its FDA-cleared plaque assessment tool, Plaque-IQ, and its non-invasive fractional flow reserve—computed tomography (FFR-CT) analysis system, pending […]
Philips says preliminary data backs its ultrasound tech’s mitral regurgitation tracking
Philips (NYSE: PHG) shared new clinical data supporting its AI-powered 3D Auto Color Flow Quantification (CFQ) technology for measuring mitral regurgitation. Mitral regurgitation is a common heart condition in which the mitral valve does not close tightly, allowing blood to leak or flow backward. This can lead to a number of risks for the patient, […]
