Best of Breed: Start with Data in Open Platforms
Better is attending this year's Digital Health Rewired conference and exhibition at Olympia London alongside Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, which is using its open platform to develop an electronic patient record.
The company will have a stand and a speaking slot at the leading industry event, and will use the opportunity to discuss the best way for trusts to make a success of the 'best of breed' approach to EPR with the UK health tech community.
Boehringer Ingelheim and Carebox Healthcare Solutions announced the recent launch of MyStudyWindow, a digital platform empowering patients, families, caregivers, and doctors to learn about Boehringer Ingelheim's studies by offering information in an easy to access and understandable way. 
Stockholm-based AlgoDx, which focuses on supporting disease detection and prediction with machine learning algorithms, has closed a 6 MSEK (600 000 EUR) seed round led by Nascent Invest with participation from angel investors Fredrik Sjödin and Tomas Mora-Morrison, co-founder of Cambio Healthcare Systems. 
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized marketing of software to assist medical professionals in the acquisition of cardiac ultrasound, or echocardiography, images. The software, called Caption Guidance, is an accessory to compatible diagnostic ultrasound systems and uses artificial intelligence to help the user capture images of a patient's heart that are of acceptable diagnostic quality. 
Medicus AI, the Vienna-based health tech company, has received a Class I Medical Device CE Mark for its mobile application. The CE certification mark confirms that Medicus AI conforms to the requirements of the Medical Devices Directive 93/42/EEC. The Directive outlines safety and performance requirements for medical devices in the EU. 
PatchAi - a startup that offers, thanks to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, an empathic virtual assistant to patients participating in clinical trials - announced that it has closed two rounds of fundraising for about 900 thousand euros in 2019. The startup's service provision has been active since December 2019 and among the first PatchAi® clients is Novartis Italia, thus confirming its position as one of the fastest rising startups in the health sector.