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RIVANNA announces new CMS procedure code for computer-aided neuraxial guidance

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Effective October 1, 2026, ICD-10-PCS code XEZU3HC establishes the first dedicated national inpatient coding category for real-time ultrasound navigation with continuous needle tracking

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — RIVANNA®, developer of AI-enabled clinical decision-support solutions, today announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has established ICD-10-PCS code XEZU3HC, effective for inpatient discharges beginning October 1, 2026. The code identifies computer-aided intraprocedural navigation in the spinal canal using ultrasound imaging with continuous needle tracking via a percutaneous approach during neuraxial anesthesia.

Before XEZU3HC, use of diagnostic ultrasound navigation during neuraxial anesthesia was not separately reportable in inpatient hospital coding. Facilities could report the underlying neuraxial anesthesia under existing codes, but the navigation itself left no trace in the record. The new code changes what that record can show: a standardized way to identify coded use and track adoption, and, when linked with clinical and operational data, a basis for evaluating outcomes.

Unintended dural puncture occurs in 0.5% to 1.5% of labor epidural placements (Van de Velde 2008; Choi 2003), and the United States has no dedicated mandatory national reporting system for it. The consequences are not always brief: in a prospective multicenter cohort study that enrolled 90 patients with accidental dural puncture and 180 matched controls, 58% of those who experienced accidental dural puncture still had persistent headache at 18 months, compared with 17% of controls (Niraj 2021).

Accuro® 3S brings ultrasound guidance into the placement itself. It is the first FDA-cleared, AI-enabled, real-time ultrasound guidance system purpose-built for neuraxial anesthesia. The system combines automated anatomical guidance through SpineNav-AI™, midline needle access through the patented Dual-Array™ probe’s central aperture, and real-time needle-tip tracking through SafeTrack™. CMS recognized the technology as procedurally distinct. Beginning October 1, XEZU3HC makes this form of guidance identifiable in inpatient data.

“Accuro 3S was developed to bring real-time guidance to neuraxial procedures,” said Will Mauldin, PhD, Co-founder and CEO of RIVANNA. “With XEZU3HC, that procedural shift will no longer be invisible in inpatient data. The code does not prove benefit; it gives hospitals a standardized way to identify use and, when linked with clinical data, evaluate outcomes.” 

CMS placed XEZU3HC in Section X, New Technology, under the newly created XEZ table. The code applies to a procedural category, not to a specific company or product, and does not by itself establish separate payment. What it establishes is identification: a standardized data structure that can support evaluation of the clinical and economic impact of computer-aided neuraxial guidance across institutions.

“Neuraxial procedures are still performed largely by feel, and the complications that follow have been difficult to see in national data,” said Delphine Le Roux, PhD, PMP, Senior Director, Market Access and Strategic Partnerships at RIVANNA. “That was the case we brought to CMS: real-time guidance changes the procedure enough that it needs its own identifier. Coding, evidence, and reimbursement follow a sequence, and this is the first step. Real-world data can then help evaluate the clinical and economic value of navigation and inform future payment discussions.” 

Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2026, RIVANNA plans to include XEZU3HC, where assigned by participating facilities, in its outcomes framework alongside procedural and workflow data.

About Accuro 3S

Accuro 3S is a portable, cart-based, point-of-care diagnostic ultrasound system featuring the patented Dual-Array probe, automated anatomical guidance through SpineNav-AI, and real-time needle-tip tracking through SafeTrack. Two transducer arrays flank a central aperture through which the needle can be introduced and advanced along the spinal midline within the ultrasound imaging plane. SpineNav-AI automatically identifies lumbar spinal landmarks and midline and measures depth to the epidural space in real time. When used with a compatible tracked needle, SafeTrack displays needle-tip location and trajectory relative to the ultrasound image in real time.

Accuro 3S extends the clinical foundation established by the flagship Accuro platform. In a randomized trial of 80 obese parturients undergoing elective cesarean delivery with combined spinal-epidural anesthesia, first-insertion success was 72.5% with Accuro and 40.0% with palpation (p=0.003; Ni 2021). The published evidence pertains to the flagship Accuro platform; Accuro 3S-specific outcomes will be tracked through RIVANNA’s outcomes framework.

About RIVANNA

RIVANNA is a medical technology company developing clinical decision-support solutions powered by proprietary clinical datasets, AI models, and purpose-built imaging hardware. The company’s platform is designed to automate complex anatomical analysis at the point of care, support faster and more confident clinical decisions, reduce variability, and expand access to advanced capabilities. Its initial applications address interventional guidance and trauma triage, beginning with neuraxial procedures and musculoskeletal injury assessment. RIVANNA has established an FDA-cleared product portfolio and maintains a worldwide intellectual-property portfolio of more than 100 issued and pending patents. RIVANNA is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, and operates an FDA-registered, ISO 13485:2016-certified manufacturing facility.

RIVANNA, Accuro, and the Rivanna Medical family of marks are registered and unregistered trademarks of Rivanna Medical, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Omneky Brings Its AI Growth Agent to Slack, Extending the Premier Agentic Harness for Advertising

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Marketing teams can now brief, approve, and launch ad campaigns from the channels where they already work

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Omneky, the autonomous AI growth platform, today announced a Slack integration that brings the Omneky AI Growth Agent into the channels where marketing teams plan, review, and approve their work. The launch comes during Dreamforce week, as Salesforce, Slack’s parent company, brings the Slack ecosystem to Omneky’s home city of San Francisco.

A growth lead posts a brief in a channel and tags Omneky. The agent researches the brand and its competitors, proposes a strategy, and returns creative variants in the thread. Teammates comment and approve. The agent then launches the campaign, shifts budget toward the variants that convert, and posts pacing and performance updates back to the channel.

Slack joins Omneky’s public API, MCP server, and Claude and Grok connectors, all driving the same harness: the customer’s brand ontology, closed-loop performance data across more than $1 billion in ad spend, media buying across six channels including ChatGPT, human approval controls, and a router that picks the best model across Claude, GPT, Grok, Gemini, Seedance, and others. That is what makes Omneky the premier agentic harness for advertising. Whatever agent a team uses, Omneky is the layer that lets it research, create, launch, and optimize ads.

“Agents are going to run advertising, and they need a harness built for it: the brand data, the models, the channels, and the controls. We built that harness, and Slack is now one more place teams can drive it,” said Hikari Senju, Founder and CEO of Omneky.

The integration is available today to all Omneky customers at https://omneky.com/slack. New customers can start a free trial at omneky.com. To schedule a briefing during Dreamforce week, contact hi@omneky.com.

About Omneky

Omneky is the autonomous AI growth platform and the premier agentic harness for advertising. Its AI Growth Agent researches markets, generates ad creatives and landing pages, launches campaigns, allocates budget, and buys media across Meta, Google, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit, and ChatGPT. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, Omneky serves more than 6,000 customers and is SOC 2 Type II certified. Learn more at omneky.com.

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Linkind Light Stick Launches at tm:rw, Bringing Immersive Smart Lighting to Experiential Retail

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Linkind brings its latest smart lighting innovation into tm:rw, giving consumers a new way to experience dynamic, customizable lighting in person.

NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Linkind, a smart lighting brand focused on making expressive, connected lighting more accessible, announced the launch and retail installation of the Linkind Smart Light Stick at tm:rw, the technology-focused experiential retail destination in New York City.

The installation gives visitors the opportunity to experience Light Stick beyond the screen, with a dedicated retail presence designed to showcase its dynamic lighting effects, highly customizable color control, and ability to transform the atmosphere of a space.

Light Stick represents a new direction for Linkind’s smart lighting portfolio, combining functional illumination with a more expressive approach to ambient lighting. Featuring 50 independently controllable color zones, more than 120 preset effects, 16 million colors, and dynamic flame-inspired effects, Light Stick can create everything from subtle ambient illumination to bold, animated lighting displays.

With support for Matter, Light Stick can also integrate across compatible smart home ecosystems, bringing its visual capabilities into the wider connected home.

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The tm:rw installation is designed to turn those capabilities into a physical experience.

Rather than relying solely on product imagery or specifications, visitors can see Light Stick’s color, movement, and effects operating in a real environment, and experience how multiple lights can work together to dramatically change the character of a space.

“Light Stick is a product that really needs to be experienced,” said Kevin Bright, Communications Director, Linkind. “Its impact comes from seeing the movement, color and depth it can create in a room. tm:rw gives us an opportunity to take that experience out of a product page and put it directly in front of people.”

The installation also reflects Linkind’s broader push toward experience-led smart lighting—products that do more than simply turn on, off, or change color, and instead allow consumers to actively shape the atmosphere of their homes.

Bringing Linkind into the Physical Retail Experience

The launch at tm:rw represents another step in Linkind’s expanding physical retail presence and gives the brand a platform for consumers, creators, and technology enthusiasts to discover its products firsthand.

tm:rw is built around interactive technology discovery, creating an environment where emerging products can be demonstrated and experienced rather than simply displayed on shelves.

“Consumers increasingly want to understand what new technology actually does for them before they bring it into their homes,” said Kevin. “Products like Light Stick are particularly well suited to an experiential environment because the product itself becomes part of the space.”

The Linkind Smart Light Stick is now on display and available at tm:rw in New York City and is available online at Linkind and Amazon.

About Linkind

Linkind creates smart lighting designed to make connected homes more colorful, expressive and accessible. From everyday illumination to immersive entertainment and outdoor lighting, Linkind combines smart-home connectivity with creative lighting experiences that allow people to shape their spaces around the way they live.

For more information, visit Linkind.com.

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WareSpace Expands in South Florida and Enters Bay Area with $36.5 Million in Industrial Acquisitions

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The acquisitions add warehouse space for more than 210 small businesses in two supply-constrained markets and bring WareSpace to 34 facilities and more than 3.2 million square feet nationwide.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — WareSpace, a leading operator of micro-bay warehouse space, today announced $36.5 million in industrial acquisitions in Miami Gardens, Florida, and South San Francisco, California. The acquisitions mark WareSpace’s third property in South Florida and its first in the Bay Area, and will create more than 210 flexible warehouse units for small businesses in two markets where appropriately sized industrial space is increasingly difficult to find.

The deals add approximately 164,000 square feet to WareSpace’s national footprint and bring the company to 34 facilities totaling more than 3.2 million square feet nationwide. They also follow WareSpace’s recent $300 million capital commitment from Jadian Capital, and its first portfolio-level acquisition, which added five properties across four new U.S. markets in July.

In South Florida, WareSpace acquired 4900 NW 167th Street in Miami Gardens for $20.42 million. The 100,000-square-foot property will be converted into flexible warehouse units, expected to serve more than 125 small businesses, along one of Miami-Dade County’s busiest commercial corridors. The property has direct access to the Palmetto Expressway and I-95 and is approximately 18 minutes from WareSpace’s existing Medley location and 35 minutes from the Fort Lauderdale location, which opened earlier this year.

In South San Francisco, WareSpace purchased 161 Starlite Street for $16.05 million. The 64,103-square-foot industrial property will be converted into 85+ flexible units for small businesses in one of the country’s most supply-constrained industrial markets. Small-bay industrial inventory in the area has declined by approximately 5% over the past five years, with no new small-bay supply currently under construction.

“These acquisitions are in very different parts of the country, but the opportunity is remarkably similar,” said Joseph Ely, Co-Founder and COO of WareSpace. “Both areas are population dense, high-barrier markets where small businesses need industrial space close to their customers and employees, but appropriately sized options are increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to find. We’re continuing to invest in locations and assets where we see that disconnect and where our model can solve a real need for business owners across America.”

“Miami gives us the opportunity to build on the momentum we’ve already established in South Florida, while South San Francisco opens the door to a new market where industrial space is becoming increasingly scarce,” said Levi Cohen, Co-Founder and CEO of WareSpace. “Both acquisitions reflect how we’re growing — expanding in markets where we’ve seen strong demand while selectively entering new ones where we see a clear opportunity for the WareSpace model.”

WareSpace will reposition both properties into flexible, move-in-ready warehouse units typically ranging from approximately 200 to 2,000 square feet. The company’s model combines shorter-term leases with all-inclusive pricing and on-site services, giving contractors, e-commerce businesses, distributors, service companies and other small operators access to industrial space without the size and long-term commitments associated with traditional warehouse leases.

The two acquisitions continue a period of rapid national growth for WareSpace as it expands its micro-bay model across major U.S. metropolitan areas.

Businesses looking for flexible warehouse space in Miami Gardens or South San Francisco can learn more and join the waitlist at warespace.com.

About WareSpace

WareSpace is a national real estate firm specializing in the development of co-warehousing and small-bay industrial spaces between 200 and 2,000 square feet. WareSpace creatively adapts and reconfigures dated industrial and challenged properties into thriving hubs that support surrounding small business communities. Operating with a vertically integrated structure, WareSpace offers major service lines in-house, including acquisitions, development, construction, finance, operations, marketing and sales.

Learn more at warespace.com.

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