Digital Health

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By  Jessica Hagen 02:45 pm November 14, 2023
Dallas-based Pieces Technologies, a healthcare generative AI company for care teams, announced it incorporated Amazon Web Services' genAI offerings to create Sculpted AI, a technology that can tailor to health systems' specifications and embeds AI within electronic health record clinical workflows.  Sculpted AI leverages Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon SageMaker Canvas to...
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By  Nathan Eddy 12:52 pm November 14, 2023
Ovia Health, a digital health platform for family care, is set to introduce a fertility and family-building benefit designed to comprehensively support the diverse journeys of employees and health plan members. Slated for release in January 2024, the offering goes beyond traditional fertility solutions, aiding the entire family-building process, including preconception, pregnancy and postpartum....
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:05 pm November 13, 2023
GE HealthCare announced a collaboration with Grand Rapids-based cancer treatment center BAMF Health to advance the adoption of theranostics in the U.S.  Theranostics is an emerging technology and a form of precision medicine that fuses imaging technology with therapeutic agents to pinpoint and target cancer cells for destruction. BAMF Health offers molecular imaging for various types of cancer as...
Deirdre Saulet, market vice president for oncology at Carrum Health
By  Jessica Hagen 12:48 pm November 13, 2023
California-based Carrum Health, a digital marketplace allowing employers to purchase bundled healthcare services, announced in September that it joined the White House-led Cancer Moonshot CancerX initiative, uniting with cross-disciplinary stakeholders to drive innovation in cancer care.  Deirdre Saulet, Carrum's market vice president for oncology, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the...
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By  Jessica Hagen 03:52 pm November 10, 2023
Akili, the company behind a video game-like prescription digital therapeutic for children with ADHD, reported a rise in third-quarter revenue to $702,000, from $114,000 in the second quarter of this year, which the company attributes to the continued growth of its adult ADHD offering EndeavorOTC. The company reported total operating expenses of $18.8 million for the third quarter, compared to $15...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:10 pm November 10, 2023
Boston-based medical technology company Elucid, which offers AI-enabled imaging analysis software for cardiovascular disease, announced that it has scored $80 million in Series C funding, bringing its total raise to $121 million. Elevage Medical Technologies led the funding, with additional contributions from other investors.   The company will use the funds to expand the commercialization of its...
Medical students wearing Jolly Good VR headset
By  Adam Ang 11:45 pm November 9, 2023
Jolly Good announces new palliative care VR training module Jolly Good in the United States, in partnership with Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has developed a new VR training module in palliative care communication.  They came up with the VR module to help medical professionals acquire the necessary communication skills to provide care to terminally ill patients and their...
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:05 pm November 9, 2023
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...
A person wearing PolyU's Mobile Ankle-foot Exoneuromusculoskeleton
By  Adam Ang 04:15 am November 9, 2023
Researchers from Hong Kong have come up with a new robotic device for improving the gait and lower limb function of stroke patients. WHAT IT'S ABOUT The mobile ankle-foot exoneuromusculoskeleton developed by a research team from Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is a rehabilitation robot specifically designed for stroke patients with hemiplegia, or paralysis that affects one side of the...
Healthcare provider wearing a mask, a lab coat and a stethoscope around their neck talking to a patient in their home
By  Jessica Hagen 12:47 pm November 8, 2023
Best Buy Health and Mass General Brigham announced the tech giant would provide technology, human-centered aid and omnichannel logistics to scale and support the health system's acute home-based care offering, Home Hospital, and Medicare-certified home health business, Home Care. Home Hospital provides home healthcare for patients with conditions such as infections, chronic obstructive pulmonary...