Digital health executives predict funding in 2024 will increase for companies with platforms proven helpful for healthcare providers and patients, while those not showing value will be forced to dissolve.
Leaders also relayed to MobiHealthNews that mergers and acquisitions will be prominent in the digital health industry, and genAI companies may take center stage when garnering funding. ...
Google announced the release of MedLM, two foundational models built off Med-PaLM 2, designed to answer medical questions, generate insights from unstructured data and summarize medical information.
The tech giant said that through piloting its LLMs with healthcare organizations, it has learned the most effective AI models are designed to address specific use cases. Therefore, the large model...
Leaders in the digital health space told MobiHealthNews their predictions about where AI will make the most significant mark in healthcare in 2024.
Following the considerable increase in the use of AI in healthcare in 2023, stakeholders expect next year to bring even wider adoption of the technology across various sectors, from implementation in physician-facing tools that help ease provider...
Digital metabolic care startup Twin Health announced it has raised $50 million in funding, two years after securing $140 million in Series C funding.
Temasek led the funding with participation from existing investors Sofina, ICONIQ Growth, Helena, and Peak XV.
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Twin’s product is the Whole Body Digital Twin, an AI-backed model that aims to provide individualized nutrition, sleep and...
Digital weight loss company Noom has announced several new hires within its leadership team, including new executive vice president and chief financial officer Jean Clifton, chief technology officer Rich Friedman, and general counsel Norman Petty.
The company has also appointed Jim Bugden as senior vice president of corporate development and partnerships, named Katerina Kugel as senior director...
AI in healthcare and value-based care enablement are top developing trends in healthcare, but lack scalability so far, while big box retailers as providers and data interoperability have shown a high volume of activity in 2023, and are scaling with long-term trajectories.
Rock Health's report, which utilized data to determine the sequence of developments in the digital health space this year,...
Multispecialty medical group Privia Medical Group Gulf Coast, part of physician enablement company Privia Health, is partnering with tech-enabled women's health startup Iron Health to launch an initiative that binds health services with OB/GYN care dubbed Privia Wellness.
Iron Health dubs itself as a virtual extension of an OB/GYN practice, offering primary care and mental health services,...
Publicly-traded digital behavioral health company Talkspace announced a strategic partnership with menopause-focused telehealth startup Evernow in which both companies will utilize the other's offerings to expand their portfolio.
Talkspace offers therapy for adults, teens 13 to 17, and couples, as well as psychiatric services and medication management. The platform assists individuals suffering...
At-home fertility care company Mosie Baby announced it received FDA 510(k) clearance for the first over-the-counter intravaginal insemination (IVI) kit, which allows individuals to perform at-home insemination using either a fresh or cryogenically frozen donor semen sample.
Mosie's home insemination kit includes two syringes with a barrel-free tip and a slit opening, as well as two collection...
A study done by Google Research in collaboration with Google DeepMind reveals the tech giant developed an LLM with conversational and collaborative capabilities that can provide an accurate differential diagnosis (DDx) and help improve clinicians' diagnostic reasoning and accuracy in diagnosing complex medical conditions.
The LLM for DDx builds upon Med-PaLM 2, the company's generative AI...
