Butterfly Network
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Butterfly Network Launches AI Tool for Point-Of-Care Lung Ultrasounds
Butterfly Network recently launched an AI tool that can provide medical practitioners with an accurate B-line count from just a six-second lung ultrasound clip. By automatically counting B-lines in a lung image, the tool helps doctors quickly identify and assess a patient’s lung issues at the point of care.
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MedCity Influencers, Devices & Diagnostics
We’re in an era experiencing a tectonic shift in foundations of medical imaging
With a window into human body in real-time, next generation of ultrasound devices thwarts challenges of economic efficiency, geographic limits to care and ineffective training.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Devices & Diagnostics, Artificial Intelligence
Can technology democratize obstetric ultrasounds?
A study from the New England Journal of Medicine found that AI coupled with Butterfly iQ, a handheld ultrasound device, can assess fetal gestational age as accurately as a trained sonographer with expensive, bulky equipment; the findings have implications for democratizing obstetric ultrasounds.
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Butterfly Network wants to do to ultrasound what digital cameras did to Kodak film
As of late October, healthcare’s newest unicorn – Butterfly Network – has begun shipping its ultrasound-on-a-chip system that a senior executive believes will alter the field of ultrasound forever.
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Rock Health: Digital health investing has already surpassed record-breaking 2017
In 2018 alone, ten companies have inked mega-deals of more than $100 million including Livongo, 23andMe and American Well.
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Say hello to Butterfly Network, digital health’s newest unicorn
The portable ultrasound company raised a $250 million Series D financing round led by financial services Fidelity at a $1.25 billion valuation.
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As ultrasound via mobile gets FDA clearance, will its impact be similar to camera phone?
Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, founder and chairman of Butterfly Network, predicted the device’s impact would be not unlike the milestone development of camera phones.