Israeli medical technology

The Technion and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center are working on combining advanced technology with medical expertise in order to revolutionize children's healthcare.

The Technion's Dr. Oren Salzman and Prof. Ron Alterovitz and Mengyu Fu of UNC developed an algorithm to safely steer surgical needles along computer-mapped trajectories.

Israeli company DreaMed Diabetes AI developed Advisor Pro, a decision support system to assist healthcare providers in the management of diabetes patients with insulin pumps or injections.

'Aging is being considered a disease that can be cured rather than something that is inevitable and normal,' said Dr. Shahar Cohen, a bioengineer working on a project called 'organs on demand.'

Prof. Nissim Garti, who founded Lyotropic Delivery Systems (LDS) back in 2013, told The Jerusalem Post that his company has recently signed several new global contracts.

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MedAssist is exactly as it sounds: the medical assistant you need in a country that has it all but sometimes makes it hard to access

The company was chosen by Catcher as part of a scouting process conducted with the Israel Economic and Trade Mission in Taipei.

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a condition where one or more arteries in the lungs become blocked by a blood clot, possibly resulting in symptoms such as shortness of breath, chest pain and cough.

The Beersheva-based digital health company will provide secure access to clinical data for more than nine million US veterans.