HeartFocus Joins Butterfly Garden to Develop Software Enabling Any Healthcare Professional to Conduct Lifesaving Echos on Butterfly’s Imaging Platform
HeartFocus has joined the Butterfly Garden AI Marketplace by Butterfly Network, aiming to integrate its AI-powered heart scan software with Butterfly's handheld ultrasound system. This collaboration plans to release the software after necessary approvals, enabling healthcare professionals to conduct cardiac scans anytime, anywhere.
The initiative leverages Butterfly's extensive imaging platform and HeartFocus' proprietary algorithms trained on over 10 million data points. The goal is to enhance access to precision cardiac care and improve cardiovascular disease detection and management.
Butterfly Network's SDK and APIs allow third-party developers to create AI applications, expanding the usability of its ultrasound technology. This partnership could significantly democratize access to high-quality cardiovascular care globally.
- Collaboration aims to enhance access to precision-quality heart scans.
- Utilizes Butterfly’s extensive imaging platform and real-time streaming capability.
- HeartFocus software trained on over 10 million data points.
- Partnership may improve cardiovascular disease detection and management.
- Potential to democratize access to high-quality cardiovascular care globally.
- Release of HeartFocus software depends on necessary approvals and authorizations.
- Unspecified timeline for integration and release of the software.
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The collaboration between HeartFocus and Butterfly Network aims to combine cutting-edge technologies in the field of portable ultrasound imaging and AI-driven heart scan software. From a technological perspective, this partnership is significant because it leverages Butterfly Network’s SDK and APIs to integrate HeartFocus’ AI-powered software with Butterfly’s handheld ultrasound devices. This integration has the potential to revolutionize point-of-care cardiac diagnostics, making it more accessible and less dependent on specialized equipment or trained cardiologists.
The fact that HeartFocus utilizes algorithms trained on a vast dataset of over 10 million data points suggests a high level of accuracy and reliability in its diagnostic capabilities. This can be particularly valuable in emergency or remote settings where quick and accurate heart scans can be life-saving.
For retail investors, understanding the technical relevance of this partnership is crucial. It exemplifies how AI and portable technology can intersect to solve real-world healthcare problems, potentially increasing the market for both companies’ products and driving innovation in the sector.
From a market perspective, this partnership between DESKi's HeartFocus and Butterfly Network can have a substantial impact on both companies' market positions. Butterfly Network's launch of the Butterfly Garden AI Marketplace is a strategic move to attract AI developers and expand its ecosystem. By adding HeartFocus, a leader in AI-driven heart exam software, Butterfly Network can significantly broaden its product offerings and enhance its value proposition to healthcare providers.
This partnership could also open up additional revenue streams for both companies. The increased accessibility and usability of their combined technologies may attract a larger customer base, including smaller clinics and healthcare providers who previously couldn't afford or access high-quality cardiac imaging solutions.
For investors, this collaboration highlights the growth potential and strategic direction of Butterfly Network. It also underscores the importance of software integration and AI in expanding the capabilities of medical devices, which can be a key driver of future growth in the healthcare technology sector.
HeartFocus enters Butterfly Garden, leveraging Butterfly Network’s software development kit (SDK) to integrate new AI-powered heart scan software compatible with Butterfly’s leading imaging platform
HeartFocus enters Butterfly Garden (Graphic: Business Wire)
With this collaboration, HeartFocus and Butterfly will unite ground-breaking technologies, and, once deployed, empower any healthcare professional to conduct medical-grade cardiac scans from anywhere, at any time. This can greatly increase access to precision-quality, heart scans and significantly improve detection and patient care management for cardiovascular disease – the number one killer in the US and the world.
In August 2023, Butterfly Network launched Butterfly Garden, allowing third-party developers access to its proprietary SDK and APIs to build new AI applications that work in conjunction with Butterfly’s imaging platform, bringing with it access to the largest point-of-care ultrasound customer base. HeartFocus, powered by proprietary algorithms trained on a unique AI-library comprised of over 10 million data points, is an ideal match for the program.
Bertrand Moal, PhD MD, CEO of DESKi said, “For many patients, the gates to precision-quality, heart care have been locked for far too long. We believe No heart can wait™ and HeartFocus’ leading imaging technology presents the opportunity to set a new standard for accessible, quality echos. Butterfly, with its real-time streaming capability and unprecedented HCP network, is an essential partner to help us realize this goal. I’m excited to see the impact of our collaboration.”
“We are excited to collaborate with HeartFocus to bring a new transformative cardiac AI tool to Butterfly devices that will empower healthcare providers and enhance the heart exam for patients,” said Darius Shahida, Chief Strategy Officer, Butterfly Network. “The AI-driven HeartFocus software by DESKi, paired with Butterfly's affordable, portable ultrasound probes, can drive a pivotal advancement in access to high-quality cardiovascular care, and will further Butterfly's mission to democratize access to medical imaging for all people worldwide.”
About HeartFocus
HeartFocus is a revolutionary, AI-driven heart exam software that empowers any healthcare professional to perform world-class echos from any device, anywhere. Created in 2023 by French brothers Bertrand and Olivier Moal, HeartFocus leverages proprietary and ground-breaking algorithms trained on over 10 million data points and validated through clinical trials. Bertrand, a Medical Doctor with a PhD in biomechanical engineering, and Olivier, a Berkeley and EPFL engineering alum, were moved by the devastating impact of cardiovascular disease exacerbated by increasingly overburdened healthcare systems. Driven by the belief No heart can wait™, HeartFocus provides a life-saving solution for heart patients, facilitating early detection and disease prevention. In 2024, HeartFocus was awarded the coveted
HeartFocus is the latest offering by DESKi, a provider of innovative AI products developed in conjunction with medical practitioners and researchers. For more information visit www.heartfocus.ai.
About Butterfly Network
Founded by Dr. Jonathan Rothberg in 2011, Butterfly Network is a digital health company with a mission is to democratize medical imaging by making high-quality ultrasound affordable, easy-to-use, globally accessible, and intelligently connected, including for the 4.7 billion people around the world lacking access to ultrasound. Butterfly created the world's first handheld single-probe, whole-body ultrasound system using semiconductor technology, Butterfly iQ. The company has continued to innovate, leveraging the benefits of Moore’s Law, to launch its second-generation Butterfly iQ+ in 2020, and third-generation iQ3 in 2024 – each with increased processing power and performance enhancements. The disruptive technology has been recognized by TIME’s Best Inventions, Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, CNBC Disruptor 50, and MedTech Breakthrough Awards, among other accolades. With its proprietary Ultrasound-on-Chip™ technology, intelligent software, and educational offerings, Butterfly is paving the way to mass adoption of ultrasound for earlier detection and remote management of health conditions around the world. Butterfly devices are commercially available to trained healthcare practitioners in areas including, but not limited to, parts of
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HeartFocus by DESKi Inquiries:
Pernille Bruun-Jensen, Chief Growth Officer
pernille.bruun-jensen@deski.ai
Butterfly Business & Technology Inquiries:
Darius Shahida, Chief Strategy Officer
dshahida@butterflynetinc.com
Butterfly Media:
Liz Learned, Head of Corporate Communications
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