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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Maternity-focused digital health company Diana Health secured $34 million in Series B funding led by Norwest Ventures Partners, bringing its total raise to $46 million.
Existing investors LRVHealth and .406 Ventures participated in the round, as did AlleyCorp.
WHAT IT DOES
The New York-based company partners with hospitals and health systems to offer tech-enabled OB-GYN and women's health...
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