PERTH, Australia – Health care artificial intelligence (AI) company Harrison.ai has raised AU$129 million (US$97 million) in a series B round that will expand the company’s global footprint by commercializing its comprehensive clinical AI applications.
Medimaps Group SA has landed $20 million to expand its portfolio of bone health imaging software. The round was led by Swisscanto Invest, the asset management arm of the Zürcher Kantonalbank group, with participation from the Swiss Entrepreneurs Fund, Swisscom Ventures, and Verve Ventures. The company’s flagship product TBS (trabecular bone score) Insight is an artificial intelligence-powered medical software which provides information on bone quality from routine DXA and X-ray images.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Aurora Spine, Corza Medical, Depuy Synthes, Eurofins, Hillrom, Johnson & Johnson, Katena Products, Orthospin, Origimed, Pria Healthcare.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Caldera Medical.
LONDON – The latest epidemiological data from South Africa show it has entered a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, fueled by the Omicron variant of concern that was first detected in the country in late November. “We have moved from a total of 2,465 new cases last Thursday, when this variant was announced, to yesterday’s high of 11,535 [PCR confirmed infections],” said health minister Joseph Phaahla, in a briefing on Dec. 3.
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