AIM listed medical products company MedaPhor has raised £5.08m through a placing of £5m and an open offer of almost £79,000, according to Insider Media. The net proceeds of the transaction will be used to develop AI-based products ScanNav AutoCapture and ScanNav AnatomyGuide, to submit these products for regulatory approval, and for general working capital … Continue reading MedaPhor raises £5.08m with placing and open offer

A recent clinical study has found that adding HeartWorks TEE (transesophagael echocardiography) simulators to training can improve novices’ ability to perform focused critical care TEE. MedaPhor make the HeartWorks TEE simulator. They report the study, conducted by the University of Bern, took forty four intensive care unit trainees and randomly split them into two groups. … Continue reading HeartWorks can improve novice critical care performance

MedaPhor have announced their BodyWorks Eve point of care ultrasound (PoCUS) simulator has been installed at NYU School of Medicine, in the simulation laboratory of the affiliated Veterans Affairs New York Harbor Healthcare System NY Campus. BodyWorks Eve is an ultra-realistic female manikin-based simulator designed specifically for doctors looking to train in point of care … Continue reading First BodyWorks Eve installed at NYU School of Medicine

The London North West Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) has chosen ScanTrainer for its new Ultrasound Training Academy at Central Middlesex Hospital. The new education centre has been designed to ease growing ultrasound training pressures and clinical demands across the trust and beyond. Faced with a looming 24/7 NHS, the imminent rise in demand for diagnostic … Continue reading New ultrasound training academy opens with ScanTrainer

Turnover at Cardiff-headquartered MedaPhor has increased past £4m with chief executive Stuart Gall saying that Wales is now at the forefront of using artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and well placed to compete with research centres around the world. For the year to December 31st 2017 MedaPhor increased revenues by 27% to £4.2m, with sales … Continue reading MedaPhor on the up as AI products take shape

MedaPhor Group has launched its new BodyWorks Eve simulator platform. The ultra realistic manikin-based simulator will be used to train medical professionals practising point of care ultrasound (PoCUS) across emergency medicine and critical care. First shown at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) in Los Angeles last month and now launched for general … Continue reading MedaPhor launches ultrasound simulator

MedaPhor have announced the first pilot of its ScanNav real time image analysis software at the Foetal Medicine Department of St George’s University Hospitals NHS Trust. ScanNav is believed to be the first CE marked AI system to carry out an automated, real time “peer review” of obstetric ultrasound images as someone is scanned. Monitoring … Continue reading AI software to be piloted for pregnancy screening

Cardiff-based ultrasound training systems developer MedaPhor has been awarded a conditional grant offer from Innovate UK to fund the development of a new augmented reality imaging device. Insider Media reports the £464,000 grant is conditional on a financial review by Innovate UK and was awarded as part of the organisations Digital Health Technology Catalyst competition. … Continue reading MedaPhor secure grant for augmented reality device

Insider Media has reported that MedaPhor is to acquire Intelligent Ultrasound, a University of Oxford spinout, in a deal worth up to £3.6m. Intelligent Ultrasound develops image analysis software for ultrasound. MedaPhor said bringing Intelligent Ultrasound into the fold would allow it to expand its existing ultrasound simulator business into the larger ultrasound related software … Continue reading MedaPhor to acquire Intelligent Ultrasound

MedaPhor Group, a Cardiff-based provider of ultrasound training simulators for medical professionals, sold its first ScanTrainer in India to Indira IVF (MedaPhor, 2018). IndiraIVF, a group of private fertility clinics, purchased three ScanTrainer Transvaginal training simulators to meet the growing ultrasound training demands of its twenty two fertility centres across India. The group plans to … Continue reading MedaPhor makes first ScanTrainer sale in India