This week’s top industry news bites: Installations, investments, contracts, partnerships …
Radiology business developments that broke softly but may soon make waves:
Calyx and Qynapse partner to combine AI analysis of brain scans with development of therapies for disorders of the central nervous system (July 25).
Cleerly closes Series C financing round of $223 million for developing AI assessment of atherosclerosis (artery plaque buildup) on coronary CT angiograms (July 25).
authID deploys facial biometric authentication at the American Board of Radiology for candidate certification (July 26).
Sectra subscribes Cooper University Health Care for multispecialty enterprise imaging (July 26).
Hologic announces third-quarter revenues of $1.003 billion, “meaningfully exceeding” projections for both revenue and profitability (July 27).
Telix Pharmaceuticals completes first total-body PET scans with new radiotracer Illuccix for prostate cancer imaging at BAMF Health in Grand Rapids, Mich. (July 27).
Caption Health and Heartbeat Health partner to combine AI-guided echocardiograms with home-based cardiology care via telemedicine (July 28).
Catching with the previous week:
- Microsoft lands account with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center for cloud computing, AI and machine learning tools for clinical analytics (July 20) … Elekta installs MRI-guided linear accelerator for precision radiotherapy at University of Florida Health (July 21) … Cancer screening AI startup Lunit debuts on the South Korean trading platform KOSDAQ (Korean Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, July 21).
Dave P. has worked in journalism, marketing and public relations for more than 30 years, frequently concentrating on hospitals, healthcare technology and Catholic communications. He has also specialized in fundraising communications, ghostwriting for CEOs of local, national and global charities, nonprofits and foundations.