Innovation

General Catalyst has led a $67 million series B funding round for digital clinical trials startup Vial.

UpStream Health, a primary care technology company, raised $140 million in a series B financing round.

Two SSM Health facilities in Illinois have installed an artificial intelligence-based weapons detection system in their emergency room entrances, WPSD Local reported Nov. 29. 

Cancer Focus Fund, a venture capital arm of Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has joined a $25 million series A funding round for Nectin Therapeutics, which develops novel immunotherapies.

Philips has introduced a new visualization workspace, which includes a cardiac MR suite with workflow and user interface, artificial intelligence-powered Alberta stroke program early CT (ASPECT) scoring, and enhanced CT liver analysis applications.

Artificial intelligence has had a massive effect on the medical imaging industry. While radiologists have not been replaced by the algorithm, they are learning to adopt these new tools at scale, and it is changing the way imaging is done.…

TGH Innoventures, Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital's innovation center and venture fund, joined in a $27 million financing round for Medical Informatics Corp., a virtual care and analytics company.

University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson have launched a remote monitoring program for diabetes patients.

Bionaut Labs, a company that makes micro-robotics used in the treatment of central nervous system diseases, has raised $43 million in series B financing.

The following hospitals and health systems have moved their digital infrastructures to the cloud, or announced plans to partner with Google Cloud, in a bid to advance patient care: