Butterfly Network and Caption Health Announce Exclusive Strategic Partnership to Enable Earlier Disease Detection and Management with AI -Based Guidance and Diagnostics
August 12, 2021 at 07:00 am EDT
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Butterfly Network, Inc. and Caption Health announced that they have entered into an exclusive strategic partnership. For a broad set of healthcare professionals, Butterfly and Caption’s integrated solution should enhance cardiac assessment by improving the ease of image capture and image interpretation in a variety of care settings including the hospital, clinic, and home. Recently, Caption Guidance™ received CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) new technology add-on payments (NTAP) authorization, which will go into effect on October 1, 2021. The NTAP designation is awarded to new medical technologies and services which are expected to substantially improve the diagnosis or treatment of Medicare beneficiaries.
Butterfly Network, Inc. is a digital health company. The Company is focused on transforming care through a combination of portable, semiconductor-based ultrasound technology, intuitive software, services, and educational offerings. It has two portable ultrasound devices on the market: second-generation Butterfly iQ+ and third-generation Butterfly iQ3. Butterfly iQ+/iQ3 are both powered by its Ultrasound-on-Chip technology, allowing them to power whole-body imaging on a single handheld probe using digital semiconductor technology. It offers cloud-based software solutions to healthcare systems, teleguidance, in-app educational tutorials, formal education programs through its Butterfly Academy software and Butterfly Certified courses, as well as professional services for large scale deployments. Within the Butterfly application, users can utilize up to six imaging modes, including B-Mode, Color Doppler, M-Mode, Power Doppler, Pulsed-Wave Doppler, and Biplane Imaging.
Butterfly Network and Caption Health Announce Exclusive Strategic Partnership to Enable Earlier Disease Detection and Management with AI -Based Guidance and Diagnostics