Digital Health

Soccer players on a field with one kicking a ball into the goal
By  Dr. Dhruv Seshadri 02:41 pm December 1, 2023
Monitoring athletic performance is certainly nothing new. Advanced technologies in wearable sensors to monitor and evaluate physiological biomarkers offer increased opportunities to collect and quantify data without direct proximity to the athlete.  To better optimize workouts and evaluate the full performance, it’s necessary to get detailed cardiovascular and biomechanical insight into how the...
Two healthcare providers looking at a computer screen
By  Nathan Eddy 04:31 pm November 30, 2023
German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim and tech giant IBM are teaming up to harness the power of genAI and foundation models to further biologic drug discovery. The partnership leverages IBM’s foundation model technologies, consisting of pre-trained, large-scale neural network architectures, to accelerate the identification of novel antibodies vital for therapeutic development. These...
Two healthcare providers looking at a brain imaging scan
By  Jessica Hagen 12:33 pm November 30, 2023
RapidAI, a health tech company specializing in imaging analysis software, announced it received Class III Shonin clearance in Japan and launched a hybrid technology platform, Rapid Edge Cloud, and a non-contrast CT offering for stroke identification.   RapidAI offers numerous imaging solutions for stroke, aneurysm and pulmonary embolism. It also provides technology platforms to enable coordinated...
GE HealthCare diagnostic imaging machine
By  Nathan Eddy 04:35 pm November 29, 2023
GE HealthCare is leveraging AI and data integration technologies to help tackle the rapidly increasing volume of patient data and working to optimize the application of these two tech tools in patient care in announcing 40 new innovations at RSNA23.  The company's central strategy is to integrate AI into its precision care framework, encompassing smart devices, targeted therapies, disease-...
Healthcare provider sitting at a desk and looking at a computer while waving to the screen
By  Jessica Hagen 12:40 pm November 29, 2023
Virtual primary care company TytoCare announced an exclusive partnership with Idaho-based St. Luke's Health System to provide virtual care services to the care provider's members and employees beginning in 2024.  The Israeli health tech company provides virtual care via its AI-enabled TytoCare Home Smart Clinic, which allows clinicians to conduct exams remotely.  Providers obtain real-time data...
Healthcare provider sitting a room with a computer while there is a window for them to see a diagnostic imaging tool
By  Jessica Hagen 05:10 pm November 28, 2023
AI-enabled imaging company Aidoc announced that it has secured $30 million in funding to develop a comprehensive AI imaging model and a new category of products based on that model.  WHAT IT DOES Aidoc offers radiologists tools to find and triage injuries and health conditions based on imaging results. It also provides coordination software for stroke and cardiovascular care, alerting relevant...
Person giving a healthcare provider a piece of paper
By  Jessica Hagen 02:22 pm November 28, 2023
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company announced it partnered with PharmcoRx Pharmacy, a Florida-based health service organization Progressive Care subsidiary, and tech-enabled Expion Health's to lower drug prices for consumers.  PharmcoRx has become a participating pharmacy in MCCPDC's Team Cuban Card, which allows patients at PharmcoRx locations access to generic and brand-name medications at MCCPDC...
Person lying just outside an MRI machine with a red scanning light on their face
By  Jessica Hagen 12:07 pm November 28, 2023
Royal Philips made several announcements at RSNA23 in Chicago yesterday, including the release of its next-generation AI-enabled advanced visualization workspace, its AI Manager and the BlueSeal MR Mobile Unit. The company's visualization workspace for health systems is an AI-powered offering aimed at improving workflows using a single platform for multiple modalities. The company said it helps...
Healthcare provider in scrubs sitting at a desk and looking at a computer
By  Jessica Hagen 01:21 pm November 27, 2023
OpenAI's GPT-4 correctly diagnosed 52.7% of complex challenge cases, compared to 36% of medical journal readers, and outperformed 99.98% of simulated human readers, according to a study published by the New England Journal of Medicine. The evaluation, conducted by researchers in Denmark, utilized GPT-4 to find diagnoses pertaining to 38 complex clinical case challenges with text information...
Healthcare provider looking at a tablet while wearing a white shirt and a stethoscope around their neck
By  Jessica Hagen 04:12 pm November 22, 2023
Healthcare AI company Layer Health, spun out of MIT, announced its launch with $4 million in funding from GV (Google Ventures), General Catalyst and Inception Health.  WHAT THEY DO Layer Health's AI platform, dubbed Distill, built on machine learning algorithms that leverage large language models, aims to streamline the chart review process from unstructured data.  The technology can be...