Innovation

Virology and liver disease treatment company Bluejay Therapeutics has raised $41 million in series B funding.

HCA Florida Largo Hospital will use artificial intelligence to help detect colorectal cancer early. 

Machine learning and AI can improve healthcare by analyzing data to improve diagnoses and target cures, but technological, bureaucratic and regulatory obstacles have slowed its progress in transforming the industry, Politico reported Aug. 15. 

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is exploring artificial intelligence in a variety of areas including patient scheduling, prior authorization with payers, revenue cycle applications, radiology, cardiology, remote diagnostics and management based on healthcare sensor data, according to an Aug. 8 MIT…

Houston Methodist is partnering with Houston technology innovation space the Ion to build a space for medical technology innovation.

Researchers at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, are working to fix the problem of "cybersickness" in virtual reality.

Medical technology manufacturing company Boston Scientific has acquired Obsidio, a company that makes technology used in the embolization of blood vessels in the peripheral vasculature.

Rick Shumway, president and CEO of Stanford Health Care - ValleyCare in Pleasanton, Calif., joined the Becker's Healthcare podcast to talk about disruptors in healthcare, and how successful Silicon Valley can be in care delivery.

Stanford Medicine is working with data platform Komodo Health to measure the short- and long-term effects of COVID-19.

Medical device company BrainScope received the innovative technology contract from healthcare performance company Vizient for its machine learning and artificial intelligence device identifying traumatic brain injuries.