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...
Digital musculoskeletal care company Hinge Health announced Tuesday it would expand into in-person care with a physical therapy house call service.
The offering will first launch in Chicago followed by a nationwide rollout. Hinge is pitching the home option as a complement to virtual care, arguing in-person evaluations could improve patients' digital experiences.
"As the market leader in MSK care...
As 2022 comes to a close, MobiHealthNews asked executives from across the digital health industry about their biggest takeaways from the year.
Check out their insights below on topics ranging from improving health equity to the continued use of virtual healthcare, especially for behavioral and mental health.
Chris Brickler, cofounder and CEO of MyndVR
"It's important not to get comfortable. In...
Hospital for Special Surgery, a New York-based academic medical center focused on musculoskeletal care, announced that it had raised $21 million in Series A funding to launch RightMove Powered by HSS.
RightMove will offer virtual triage and physical therapy. HSS said it plans to go live at the end of the second quarter next year.
The funding round, led by Flare Capital and HSS, will go toward...
Evernorth, the health services arm of insurer Cigna, announced it has added five new programs to its digital health formulary, including offerings from Big Health and Quit Genius.
The new additions to the formulary are Big Health's Sleepio digital therapeutic for insomnia and its Daylight tool for anxiety, Quit Genius' alcohol use disorder and opioid use disorder programs, and HealthBeacon's...
Digital musculoskeletal care company Hinge Health has hired Mario Queiroz as chief product officer.
Queiroz comes to Hinge from cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, where he served as vice president of special projects. He also worked at Google for 14 years and held leadership positions at HP.
"Millions of Americans experience chronic back and joint pain. As someone deeply passionate about...
Digital musculoskeletal care company Hinge Health launched a women's pelvic health program, nearly two months after competitor SWORD Health revealed a similar offering.
Hinge's program, available within the same platform as the rest of its MSK tools, offers educational content and access to a care team made up of physical therapists, women's health coaches and urogynecologists. The offering can...
Patients using a digital musculoskeletal care program experienced higher levels of pain improvement up to a year after registering compared with those who didn't participate, according to a study published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders.
The study was funded by digital MSK company Hinge Health, and some of the authors are Hinge employees.
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Researchers found the percentage of study...
Musculoskeletal care is a big problem for the U.S. healthcare system, digital health companies say. Disorders are common and expensive to treat, but care that could cut down those high costs is inaccessible to many who need it.
That message is resonating with investors. Over the past year, they've poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the digital MSK space. Unicorns Hinge Health and SWORD...
Digital musculoskeletal (MSK) health company Hinge Health has raised a whopping $400 million in a Series E funding round led by Tiger Global and Coatue Management. Alkeon and Whale Rock also put in a $200 million secondary investment to acquire ownership in Hinge.
Hinge said it’s now valued at $6.3 billion, more than double the valuation it announced in January when it raked in $300 million in...
