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Applications of AI in healthcare, including medical diagnostics, drug discovery, patient care solutions, and biotechnology research.

Leo Cancer Care Receives CE Mark for Upright Radiotherapy System Marie

Leo Cancer Care has secured CE marking for its Marie upright radiotherapy system, allowing commercial use across Europe. The system enables patients to receive treatment while seated or standing, and installations have begun at CNAO in Italy.

May 22, 2026

Verana Health Expands Real World Data Bladder Cancer Database

Verana Health has expanded its real world data bladder cancer database to support research in genitourinary oncology. The update offers deeper insights into disease detection, treatment, and outcomes through curated data from electronic health records.

May 22, 2026

Helix and St. Luke’s Launch Genomic Program to Lower Healthcare Costs

Helix has partnered with St. Luke’s University Health Network to introduce Helix Genomic Advantage, the first genomic benefit program focused on reducing total medical costs through precision medicine.

May 22, 2026

The Path Raises $14.3 Million to Expand AI Therapy Platform

The Path, an AI therapy platform co-founded by Tony Robbins and Calm veterans, has raised $14.3 million in seed funding led by Prime Movers Lab to grow its proactive mental health care technology and research initiatives.

May 22, 2026

Canopy Studies Highlight Reduced Hospitalizations and Longer Treatment Durations at ASCO 2026

Canopy announced that two studies using its Remote Therapeutic Monitoring Platform have been selected for presentation at the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting, showing reduced hospitalizations, cost savings, and improved treatment persistence for oncology patients.

May 22, 2026

actAVA.ai Releases CHI-Bench to Test AI Agents on Healthcare Workflows

actAVA.ai has introduced CHI-Bench, a benchmark evaluating AI agents from companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google across 75 healthcare workflows. The top-performing agent succeeded in only 28% of cases.

May 21, 2026

Canvas Medical Introduces Studio for Custom EMR Workflow Creation

Canvas Medical has launched Studio, a no code interface that allows clinicians and staff to design and deploy custom electronic medical record workflows using natural language, powered by Claude Code and the Canvas SDK.

May 21, 2026

Outcomes4Me Acquires Geno.Me and Realyze Intelligence to Expand AI Cancer Care Platform

Outcomes4Me has acquired Geno.Me and Realyze Intelligence to strengthen its AI platform for cancer care and clinical trial matching. The company also appointed UPMC Hillman Cancer Center CIO Scot Stevens as Strategic Advisor.

May 21, 2026

MGI Tech Presents New Laboratory Automation and Multi Omics Systems at SLAS 2026

MGI Tech unveiled new automation and multi omics solutions at SLAS 2026 in Vienna, including systems for single cell proteomics, clinical sample processing, and spatial proteomics imaging.

May 21, 2026

RADIN Health and AZmed Expand AI Radiology Integration with FDA Clearance for AZtrauma

RADIN Health and AZmed have expanded their partnership following FDA clearance of AZtrauma, now covering fractures, joint effusions, and dislocations in both adults and children. The AI module integrates with RADIN’s platform to enhance radiology workflow and reporting efficiency.

May 21, 2026

Vu Technologies and Moffitt Cancer Center Use NVIDIA DGX Spark for 3D Tumor Visualization

Vu Technologies has partnered with Moffitt Cancer Center to deploy a 3D microscopy visualizer powered by NVIDIA DGX Spark, enabling faster, AI-driven tumor imaging for biomedical research.

May 21, 2026

Hyro and Five9 Partner to Bring AI Agents to Healthcare Contact Centers

Hyro has partnered with Five9 to integrate healthcare-specific AI agents into the Five9 Intelligent Cloud Contact Center, reducing integration time for health systems to as little as one hour.

May 21, 2026

MemorialCare Introduces Cleerly AI Heart Disease Analysis Across Southern California

MemorialCare has implemented Cleerly’s FDA-cleared AI coronary analysis technology across its hospitals, making Long Beach Medical Center the first in Los Angeles County to offer AI-based plaque quantification for heart disease assessment.

May 21, 2026

IGEL and Zscaler Release Healthcare Security Blueprints for Distributed Care

IGEL and Zscaler have introduced new healthcare security blueprints to help organizations secure distributed care delivery environments. The guidance, presented at HIMSS26 Europe, combines IGEL's endpoint platform with Zscaler's Zero Trust Exchange to protect clinical systems and patient data.

May 21, 2026

Araceli Biosciences Launches Endeavor Live Cell for Kinetic Imaging in Drug Discovery

Araceli Biosciences has introduced Endeavor Live Cell, an imaging system designed to enable rapid kinetic imaging for large-scale screening in AI-driven drug discovery workflows.

May 20, 2026

Flywheel Integrates with AWS HealthImaging for Clinical and AI Data Management

Flywheel announced an integration with AWS HealthImaging to streamline the management of medical imaging data for clinical trials, research, and AI development. The collaboration enables organizations to create standardized, analysis-ready imaging datasets across regulated and exploratory workflows.

May 20, 2026

NeuroDiscovery AI Launches NeuroTerminal Platform for Neurology Research

NeuroDiscovery AI has introduced NeuroTerminal, a platform built for neurology research that integrates clinical trial management, real world data, and medical affairs to speed up patient recruitment and therapy access.

May 20, 2026

Biotia Launches Clinical Antimicrobial Resistance Reporting for UTIs

Biotia has introduced BIOTIA-DX Resistance, an antimicrobial resistance profiling tool now integrated into its CLEP-approved BIOTIA-ID Urine Test for clinical use across the U.S. The platform provides rapid resistance prediction to guide treatment for complicated urinary tract infections.

May 20, 2026

Open Medicine Introduces Living Algorithms for Oncology Decision Support

Open Medicine has launched a new platform called Living Algorithms, designed to help clinicians make faster and more informed cancer treatment decisions by sharing continuously updated, interactive treatment pathways authored by leading physicians.

May 20, 2026

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly Dominate GLP-1 Mentions in AI Weight Loss Searches

A new report from 5WPR shows that Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly account for nearly all GLP-1 citations across AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, with their brands controlling 57% of total mentions in the weight loss category.

May 20, 2026

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