"This collaboration goes beyond improving healthcare systems in developing countries," said Dave Scott, president and CEO of Hyperfine. "By providing underserved communities with access to the care they need during the early critical stages of their lives, we hope to provide a brighter future for generations to come."

As part of the foundation's Maternal, Newborn & Child Health Discovery & Tools program, the investment is also establishing and coordinating a point-of-care (POC) MRI consortium to optimize the Hyperfine Swoop system with respect to image acquisition protocols and data quality for neonatal and infant brain imaging. This POC MRI consortium will generate and share data from a range of settings, including MRI research centers to develop and optimize sequences and neonatal and pediatric brain imaging clinical centers to evaluate data quality and information content relative to reference standard high-field MRI.

About Hyperfine and the Swoop Portable MR Imaging System
Hyperfine, Inc. is the groundbreaking medical device company that created Swoop, the world's first FDA-cleared portable MRI system. Hyperfine designed Swoop to enable rapid diagnoses and treatment for every patient regardless of income, resources, or location, pushing the boundaries of conventional imaging technology and expanding patient access to life-saving care. The Swoop Portable MR Imaging System produces high-quality images at a lower magnetic field strength, allowing clinicians to quickly scan, diagnose and treat patients in various clinical settings. Swoop can be wheeled directly to the patient's bedside, plugged into a standard electrical wall outlet, and controlled by an iPad®. Designed as a complementary system to conventional MRIs at a fraction of the cost, Swoop captures images in minutes, providing critical decision-making capabilities in emergency departments (ED), operating rooms (OR), and intensive care units (ICU), among others.

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