Jessica Hagen

Jessica Hagen

Jessica Hagen is the Executive Editor of MobiHealthNews. She covers the growth of digital health, including the medical extended reality (XR) industry, and reports in-depth on the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. As a hobby, Jessica co-hosts a podcast with Dr. Kim Bullock, a medical XR pioneer at Stanford University, about immersive technology use in psychiatric care. She received a bachelor's degree in English with a minor in Journalism from California State University, Northridge.

Healthcare provider sitting on a patient's hospital bed while holding a tablet showing diagnostic images of lungs
By  Jessica Hagen 01:50 pm October 16, 2023
GE HealthCare announced it signed a $44 million contract with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop AI-enabled point-of-care ultrasound technology to help clinicians diagnose and treat lung pathologies and traumatic injuries to the head, chest and abdomen. The medtech company will build off its existing ultrasound technology to develop an AI-powered...
Healthcare providers performing surgery on a patient with lights shining down from the ceiling
By  Jessica Hagen 05:18 pm October 13, 2023
British medtech company Brainomix and Switzerland-based remote robotic surgical company Nanoflex Robotics announced the receipt of £400,000 ($420,418) and CHF 400,000 ($443,700), respectively, to codevelop an AI-assisted magnetic navigation system for stroke-related robotic surgical tools. Innovate UK, the innovation agency in the United Kingdom, and Innosuisse, Switzerland's Innovation Agency,...
Anita Mahon, executive vice president and global head of healthcare at EXL
By  Jessica Hagen 01:18 pm October 13, 2023
Varying use cases for generative AI in healthcare have emerged, from assisting providers with clinical documentation to helping researchers determine novel experimental designs.  Anita Mahon, executive vice president and global head of healthcare at EXL, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss how the global analytics and digital solutions company helps payers and providers determine which data...
Person wearing a blue shirt and holding a tablet in the living room of a home
By  Jessica Hagen 03:50 pm October 12, 2023
Digital care management platform Sidekick Health announced it acquired Hamburg-based aidhere, a prescription digital therapeutic for people with obesity.  Sidekick develops personalized digital therapeutics and programs for chronic and lifestyle disease management, ranging from diabetes to ulcerative colitis and smoking cessation. Its offering enables multiple interventions to be synchronized...
Healthcare provider sitting in a chair at a desk with a computer on it while looking at a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 01:20 pm October 12, 2023
Insurer Cigna's health services subsidiary Evernorth announced it acquired asynchronous platform Bright.md, which it will use to enhance the virtual care offerings of its portfolio company MDLIVE.  Portland-based Bright.md offers an automated patient intake and virtual care connection platform to improve efficiency for hybrid care providers and patients.  Through Bright.md's platform, patients...
Healthcare provider looking at a tablet while holding their chin as though deep in thought
By  Jessica Hagen 01:34 pm October 11, 2023
Mendel.ai, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help structure medical information, announced the launch of Hypercube, an AI-powered platform that integrates structured and unstructured text data, democratizes analytics, and allows a user to ask questions in free text and receive outcomes from specific patient data.  Karim Galil, cofounder and CEO of Mendel.ai, announced the new...
Two people standing in front of a window shaking hands with six other people watching
By  Jessica Hagen 11:34 am October 10, 2023
Hemant Taneja, CEO and managing director of venture capital firm General Catalyst, and Dr. Marc Harrison, former CEO of Intermountain Health, announced the formation of a new business venture owned by General Catalyst dubbed the Health Assurance Transformation Corporation (HATCo) that will see Harrison as its CEO. The pair also announced the intent to buy a health system that will put technology...
Person sitting in a chair and surrounded by plants while looking at a phone
By  Jessica Hagen 03:40 pm October 9, 2023
b.well Connected Health, a patient-facing health management platform, announced it is integrating its offerings into the Samsung Health app to provide Galaxy smartphone users with a single platform to access their health data, receive health insights and recommendations, and connect with care providers virtually and in person. b.well's FHIR-enabled platform connects a patient’s health records,...
Healthcare provider wearing a lab coat and stethoscope while looking at a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 11:58 am October 9, 2023
At HLTH 2023, Google announced it added new generative AI-powered capabilities to its Vertex AI platform for health and life sciences companies to search patient data, including clinical sources like FHIR data and clinical notes, which can be combined with its medical large language model Med-PaLM 2.  Vertex AI is a search engine that allows organizations to build their own generative AI-enabled...
Person standing beside a building in a city looking at their phone
By  Jessica Hagen 05:13 pm October 6, 2023
Mental health platform Headway announced it closed a $125 million Series C funding round led by Spark Capital, boosting its valuation to more than $1 billion. Existing investors a16z, Accel and Thrive participated in the round, as well as new strategic investors led by Health Care Service Corp.  Will Reed, general partner at Spark Capital, will join the company's board of directors.   WHAT THEY...