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Medical Devices

BD | December 22, 2021

BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, today announced it has completed the acquisition of privately held Scanwell Health Inc., a leader in smartphone-enabled at-home medical tests.BD collaborated with Scanwell to develop the app used with the recently launched BD Veritor™ At-Home COVID-19 Test, the first at-home COVID-19 test that uniquely uses a smartphone camera and app to capture and interpret results, eliminating the human subjectivity in o...

AI

Royal Philips | November 23, 2021

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, today announced a collaboration with USA-based MedChat to integrate MedChat’s live chat and AI-driven chatbot services into Philips Patient Navigation Manager, helping improve call center efficiency and speed the time to resolve patient inquiries. With the combined offering, Philips now enables its customers in North America to create automated communication workflows that function seamlessly alongside patient access and call center o...

Health Technology

The Clinician | May 31, 2022

Digital health innovation platform, The Clinician, announced it is partnering with Northern Health, a prominent public healthcare provider. Northern Health is set to expand its Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED). The organization has onboarded The Clinician as its technology partner to develop a new patient registration and intake portal as part of the expansion. "Working with The Clinician has been absolutely fantastic. They have taken the time...

Health Technology

Stryker | January 07, 2022

Strykerannounced today a definitive merger agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Vocera Communications, Inc.for $79.25 per share, or a total equity value of approximately $2.97 billion and a total enterprise value of approximately $3.09 billion (including convertible notes). Vocera, which was founded in 2000, has emerged as a leading platform in the digital care coordination and communication category. The importance of this growing segme...