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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...
Good Doctor mobile app
By  Adam Ang 01:55 am October 13, 2023
Good Doctor collects $10M for Indonesia expansion Telehealth startup Good Doctor has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by MDI Ventures. Existing investor Grab also joined this round.  In a statement, CEO Danu Wicaksana said the fresh funds will be used to develop its enterprise technology platform, as well as new products and services.  The fund will also help in its expansion...
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...
Seniors at Lions Befrienders playing the AMI app on their tablets
By  Adam Ang 05:32 am October 11, 2023
A new mobile app developed in Singapore holds promise to prevent the progression of dementia by helping improve the multilingual thinking of senior folks.  HOW IT WORKS A team of app developers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) has built what could be the world's first multilingual app for dementia prevention, Ami (an acronym for Advancing Mental Invigoration).  Its...
Panelists in the Constellation Forum 2023
By  Nathan Eddy 03:25 pm October 10, 2023
Artificial intelligence could have profound implications for the field of oncology, concluded panelists speaking to journalist and moderator Katie Couric at the Constellation Forum 2023 at Northwell Health last week. Dr. Richard Barakat, physician in chief and executive director of cancer services and research division at Northwell Health, noted that using AI in imaging will help radiologists and...
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...