In this month’s Digital Health Roundup, Medtech Insight’s Marion Webb highlights how Alife Health is using its AI-based platform for IVF to increase chances for successful pregnancies while Barnaby Pickering discusses how AI Medical Technology is using AI to detect melanoma. Reed Miller talks about weight-loss device maker Allurion Technologies’ signed SPAC deal.

GE HealthCare’s acquisition of Caption Health is part of the company’s wider investment strategy to bring innovative technologies in-house.

Combining Caption Health’s AI software platform with Butterfly Network’s ultrasound system could result in earlier detection of diseases, including cardiac and respiratory complications associated with COVID-19.

Citing the pandemic, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) discounted 2020 data in reviewing renewals for New Technology Add-On Payment (NTAP) status and granted extensions through 30 September to 13 NTAP products.