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By  Jessica Hagen 04:35 pm December 29, 2023
Federal agencies like the FDA and HHS have established safety programs to ensure safe and trustworthy artificial intelligence use in various sectors, including healthcare.  Digital health executives relayed their recommendations, advice, and suggestions for regulators configuring rules around AI use in healthcare to MobiHealthNews, including flagging AI-generated content and building off existing...
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By  Jessica Hagen 10:37 am December 14, 2023
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...
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By  Jessica Hagen 11:17 am December 28, 2022
Leaders in the digital health space told MobiHealthNews their predictions about investors' priorities in the coming year and what companies will need to watch out for.   Following 2021's expansive investments and the decrease in funding in 2022, alongside significant layoffs, stakeholders expect funders to be more selective in 2023 – scrutinizing companies' business models and considering whether...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:35 pm November 16, 2022
Level Ex, a medical video game company offering software to train surgeons remotely, announced it will be involved in one of 38 science and research experiments accompanying SpaceX astronauts aboard Polaris Dawn, the first of three human spaceflight missions.  The Polaris Dawn and Dragon crew will travel to an altitude of 1,400 km, the highest Earth orbit ever flown, and attempt a first-of-its-...
Sam Glassenberg, CEO and founder of Level Ex
By  Jessica Hagen 10:23 am November 11, 2022
What exactly the metaverse is varies, depending on the source, from interacting with others within a virtual space to completely residing in a virtual environment through virtual reality, augmented reality or mixed reality.  Still, there's a lot of talk around the potential of the metaverse in the healthcare sector and how it will affect health-related content creation and distribution.  Sam...
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By  Dave Muoio 02:51 pm October 21, 2020
Yesterday, Level Ex, a recently acquired company best known for its selection of specialist education video games, unveiled a new multi-user surgical training product that runs inside of a mobile or desktop web browser. Called Virtual Technique Guides, the simulation software allows users on separate devices or different locations to collaboratively run through surgical scenarios via cloud-based...
By  Jonah Comstock 03:02 pm August 18, 2020
Sam Glassenberg, CEO of Level Ex, dodged the family business of medicine and went into video game design. But his path led him right back to the world of medicine “All of this came to a head in 2012 when my father, who is an anesthesiologist, finally gave up and said ‘All right Sam, you’re not going to medical school. It’s too late. So at least put this game silliness to good use and make me a...
By  Dave Muoio 02:56 pm August 3, 2020
Austin, Texas-based virtual and on-demand care provider Remedy announced Dr. Ronald Dixon as its chief medical officer. Dixon, formerly the head of clinical affairs at Onduo and the president and CEO of Onduo Professionals (its provider staffing group), is expected to draw on his experience to help Remedy build out its virtual chronic care treatment services. “Dr. Dixon’s experience in developing...
By  Dave Muoio 02:23 pm June 29, 2020
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story stated that Brainlab is based in Berlin, rather than Munich.  Level Ex, a Chicago startup that makes medical-training video games for doctors, has been acquired by Munich-based medical-technology company Brainlab, the companies announced today. The companies did not disclose the terms of their deal, although Level Ex CEO Sam Glassenberg told...
By  Dave Muoio 01:25 pm June 3, 2020
Medical-training video game-maker Level Ex has added new levels to two of its mobile games that are designed to help providers practice for challenged COVID-19 patient scenarios. The new additions are available as a free update to the company's Airway Ex and Pulm Ex games, and were developed using support from a Johnson & Johnson Institute educational grant. To build them, the company said...