The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) slapped digital pharmacy and telehealth startup Truepill with an Order to Show Cause for unlawfully dispensing thousands of prescription stimulants used to treat ADHD, including Adderall.
The DEA alleges the online pharmacy filled more than 72,000 controlled substance prescriptions between September 2020 and September 2022, of which 60% were for...
Texas-based MedCognetics received FDA 510(k) clearance for its AI-powered breast cancer screening software QmTRIAGE.
QmTRIAGE uses AI to analyze 2D full-field digital mammography screenings and flags those suggestive of abnormalities for radiologists' review.
MedCognetics' software uses datasets gathered from de-identified clinical data from UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and...
Brain-computer interface company Synchron announced its receipt of an oversubscribed $75 million Series C funding round, bringing its total raise to $145 million.
ARCH Venture Partners led the round with additional investment from Bezos Expeditions, Greenoaks, Alumni Ventures, Moore Strategic Ventures, Gates Frontier, Project X and Reliance Digital Health Limited.
The company's board of directors...
Memora Health, a virtual care delivery and management platform, announced its partnership with perinatal and prenatal health AI company, PeriGen, to provide coordinated women's healthcare from childbirth to postpartum.
Founded in 2000, PeriGen makes software products focused on childbirth. Its Early Warning System and Clinical Decision Support tool use AI to monitor patients in labor and find...
Thanks to a newly formed partnership, PatientsLikeMe community health network members will have access to at-home diagnostics company LetsGetChecked's offerings and receive discounts on screening tests.
Massachusetts-based PatientsLikeMe is a personalized health network that includes a patient support community, health management and a real-world data platform. It emerged in 2004 as one of the...
On Tuesday, VR behavioral health platform BehaVR and OxfordVR, a VR platform for severe mental health issues, announced their merger. The companies say their combination creates the largest virtual reality healthcare delivery platform.
The companies, which will unite under the BehaVR brand, also garnered $13 million in Series B funding to support the merger. The round was led by Oxford Science...
Virtual and in-office healthcare provider Juno Medical raised $12 million in Series A funding round co-led by tennis star Serena Williams, managing partner at Serena Ventures, and Julian Eison, managing partner at NEXT VENTURES.
Vast Ventures, which led Juno's seed round, also participated in the Series A funding alongside Empire State Development's New York Ventures, Genius Guild, TXV Partners,...
Speech recognition-technology company Voiceitt announced it scored $4.7 million in funding. The startup will extend the round to meet a new goal of $10 million.
The round was led by AMIT Technion with participation from Third Culture Capital (3CC) and Cisco Investments.
The Israeli company said that it had raised $20 million since its formation in 2012, including $5M of non-dilutive funding...
AI-enabled voice technology platform Sonde Health announced it raised $19.25 million in a Series B funding round led by Partners Investment, bringing its total raise to $35.25 million.
KT Corporation, NEOM Company and existing investors also participated in the round, including cofounder PureTech Health and M Ventures.
WHAT IT DOES
Sonde Health uses patented voice technology to detect various...
Amazon will no longer support Alexa third-party HIPAA-eligible Skills, which allows patients to share HIPAA-protected health information with hospitals and health insurers through its voice-based Alexa platform.
The company announced the HIPAA-compliant data transfer capability in 2019 alongside the launch of six Alexa Skills built by healthcare providers and other stakeholders, including My...