Patient communication platform Artera, formerly Well Health, announced it has partnered with GPT-enabled conversational AI provider Hyro to launch Artera Care Assist, an AI-powered virtual assistant that can be embedded into health providers' websites to answer common patient questions.
Artera offers a two-way communication hub for patients and healthcare organizations to connect. The platform...
Hyro, maker of a GPT-enabled conversational AI provider for healthcare, announced it raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Macquarie Capital, bringing the company's total funding to $35 million.
Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures and Black Opal Ventures, alongside existing and new investors, also participated in the round.
Dan Philips, executive director at Macquarie Capital, will join...
ChatGPT-3 and ChatGPT-4, OpenAI's language processing models, flunked the 2021 and 2022 American College of Gastroenterology Self-Assessment Tests, according to a study published earlier this week in The American Journal of Gastroenterology.
ChatGPT is a large language model that generates human-like text in response to users' questions or statements.
Researchers at the Feinstein Institutes for...
ChatGPT provided "largely appropriate" responses to questions about cardiovascular disease prevention, according to a research letter published in JAMA.
Researchers put together 25 questions about fundamental concepts for preventing heart disease, including risk factor counseling, test results and medication information. They posed the questions to the AI chatbot three times, and each set of...
A study from Singapore has evaluated the effectiveness of mental health chatbots in helping alleviate symptoms of depression.
Previous studies have pointed out chatbots' potential in helping people with depression in treating their symptoms.
This new study by clinician doctors from the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University Singapore set out to evaluate the...
Mental health continues to be a leading clinical focus for digital health investors. There's plenty of competition in the space, but it's still a big challenge for the healthcare system: Many Americans live in areas with a shortage of mental health professionals, limiting access to care.
Wysa, maker of an AI-backed chatbot that aims to help users work though concerns like anxiety, stress and low...
Mental health chatbot Wysa scored $20 million in a Series B financing round led by HealthQuad.
Other participants in the raise include British International Investment (BII) and previous investors W Health Ventures, Kae Capital, Google Assistant Investments and pi Ventures.
The Series B comes a little over a year after Wysa announced a $5.5 million Series A fundraise. The startup also recently...
Berlin-based patient triage and navigation platform Ada picked up another $30 million in extension funding, bringing the Series B total to $120 million. The extension round was funded by Farallon Capital, Red River West and Bertelsmann Investments.
This news comes roughly nine months after Leaps by Bayer led the initial $90 million Series B.
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Ada developed a platform that uses...
Sapio Smart Healthcare, a division of Indian government advisory firm Sapio Analytics, has developed a chatbot that assists patients from rural and remote areas in India.
Based on a press statement, the AKS Sapio Med Bot was designed to understand the "local and personal" concerns of a patient, while assisting them in seeking treatment before getting medical consultations.
The chatbot is named...
A recent study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) shows initial support for a new version of Woebot – a text-based chatbot app designed to address mental health issues – that is designed to reduce substance use and other measures tied to substance use disorder (SUD).
Conducted by researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine and Woebot Health, the investigation...