Only 27% of US hospitals can run an EEG. Epitel raised $26m for the rest
Only 27% of US hospitals can run an EEG. Epitel raised $26m for the rest

Epitel has raised $26m in a Series B round to expand a wireless EEG system that patients wear at home. Catalyst Health Ventures and Genoa Ventures co-led the round. The Salt Lake City company says it will spend the money on sales, marketing and distrib…

The FDA just picked its first company to sell an unauthorised device to Medicare patients
The FDA just picked its first company to sell an unauthorised device to Medicare patients

The US Food and Drug Administration named Dexcom as the first manufacturer selected for its Technology-Enabled Meaningful Patient Outcomes pilot on Tuesday. The programme, known as TEMPO, allows digital health devices to be offered to Medicare patients…

Dopl Technologies raises $6.3M to bring remote robotic ultrasound to rural hospitals
Dopl Technologies raises $6.3M to bring remote robotic ultrasound to rural hospitals

Dopl Technologies raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by SpringTide Ventures to advance a telerobotic ultrasound platform toward FDA clearance. The system, called Traverse, lets sonographers remotely operate a robotic arm via haptic controllers and…

OpenAI wants your medical records, and says its AI is ‘better than clinician level’
OpenAI wants your medical records, and says its AI is ‘better than clinician level’

OpenAI wants to be in the room for your next diagnosis. On Thursday it began rolling out ChatGPT Health to every logged-in US adult. The chatbot can now connect to your Apple Health data and medical records, the company said. It can then draw on them i…

A nervous Dassault is spending $2bn on AI, in the division dragging it down
A nervous Dassault is spending $2bn on AI, in the division dragging it down

Dassault Systèmes is one of Europe’s largest software companies, and it is having an anxious year. Its shares are down about a quarter this year. It pushed out its chairman in February. And investors worry that a new wave of AI could hollow out its mai…

OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s ‘dangerous’ medical advice in first case of its kind
OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s ‘dangerous’ medical advice in first case of its kind

Scott Winters says he trusted ChatGPT with his health, and it nearly cost him his life. The 55-year-old Florida pastor is suing OpenAI in San Francisco. He alleges the chatbot gave him dangerously wrong medical advice and talked him out of seeking care…

Nvidia’s open-source simulator trains surgical robots in under two minutes
Nvidia’s open-source simulator trains surgical robots in under two minutes

The hard part of medical robotics is not the robot. It is the practice. A surgical system needs thousands of attempts to learn a delicate task, and you cannot run those on real patients. Nvidia thinks the answer is to let the robot rehearse inside a si…

9 best requirements management tools for medical device development (2026)
9 best requirements management tools for medical device development (2026)

Search for requirements management tools for medical device development and you’ll find plenty of content arguing that the established platforms are too heavy for modern teams. Much of it comes from vendors with a stake in that conclusion. In a regulat…

Brain-computer interfaces could create a new digital divide, and this time it may be biological
Brain-computer interfaces could create a new digital divide, and this time it may be biological

As BCIs move from laboratories towards commercial use, Neurochip.com founder Herbert Sim warns that unequal access could separate people not only by income or connectivity, but by physical and cognitive capability. At the 2026 World Artificial Intellig…

Samsung Health Assistant arrives in beta for US users
Samsung Health Assistant arrives in beta for US users

Samsung has started rolling out a beta version of Samsung Health Assistant, which it calls a fully integrated, AI-powered personal health assistant built into the Samsung Health app. According to the company, the feature is live for eligible users in t…