The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted disparities in healthcare throughout the U.S. over the past several years. Now, with the rise of AI, experts are warning developers to remain cautious while implementing models to ensure those inequities are not exacerbated.
Dr. Jay Bhatt, practicing geriatrician and managing director of the Center for Health Solutions and Health Equity Institute at Deloitte,...
San Francisco-based predictive health company Potrero Medical has added former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Dr. David Shulkin, to its advisory board.
Shulkin has had a decades-long career in healthcare, from working at the higher echelons of the private healthcare sector to an appointment by President Obama as Undersecretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in 2015....
Pennsylvania-based NeuroFlow, a behavioral health company, has partnered with New Jersey-based Atlantic Health System to advance a collaborative care model for adult behavioral health patients at 16 accountable care organization (ACO) sites.
NeuroFlow's cloud-based platform allows healthcare providers to track, assess and connect with patients between traditional office visits. The company also...
California-based virtual care company Included Health is partnering with Denver-based in-home care provider DispatchHealth to add a virtual-to-in-home care model to its offerings.
Included Health delivers healthcare benefits and insurance navigation services as well as virtual primary care, behavioral health, specialty care and 24/7 urgent care appointments.
DispatchHealth allows patients to...
Employee-focused care navigation and pharmacy benefits platform Rightway is partnering with hybrid primary care provider One Medical to expand access to primary care for employees.
Rightway offers an enterprise healthcare platform that helps employees understand and utilize the health benefits available to them. Users can see both costs and care options available in their plan. The company also...
Fertility company AIVF, which offers AI-enabled solutions for in vitro fertilization clinics, announced it is partnering with Genea Biomedx, which provides medical devices for IVF laboratories.
AIVF's main product is the EMA platform, which the company says uses artificial intelligence to assess embryo quality during IVF treatment.
Genea Biomedx offers its Geri time-lapse incubator for embryo...
Gennev, a digital menopause care delivery platform, announced it is now an in-network provider for most of Aetna's commercial health plans nationwide.
Seattle-based Gennev, previously known as Genneve, provides menopause patients with personalized treatment through its network of OB-GYNs, health coaches and registered dietitians.
Gennev will be available to most of Aetna's commercial members...
Speech recognition technology company Voiceitt announced it's partnering with video conferencing platform Webex by Cisco to make virtual meetings more accessible for individuals with speech impairments.
Voiceitt offers an AI-based speech recognition app for individuals with non-standard speech to communicate by instantaneously translating unintelligible and atypical speech.
The partnership will...
Butterfly Network, maker of a handheld, smartphone-connected ultrasound system, saw its stock price drop after reporting first-quarter revenue of $15.5 million, flat from its total revenue of $15.6 million in Q1 2022, alongside a net loss of $33.5 million.
Still, this year, the Mass.-based company's first quarter net loss was less than its reported $44.5 million loss in the first quarter of...
Since Pear Therapeutics, one of the earliest digital therapeutic companies, declared bankruptcy in April, there's been discussion surrounding the state of investments in digital therapeutics, challenges that exist around standards of care, barriers to adoption and how to achieve success in the sector.
Andy Molnar, CEO of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance, a nonprofit organization that provides...