Alphabet's life science subsidiary Verily announced a strategic restructuring last year, shifting its focus to using AI and data science to improve precision health options.
Andrew Trister, chief medical and science officer at Verily, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the company's use of AI technology, its work with tech giant Google and what excites him about the business's future....
Johnson & Johnson MedTech has partnered with Silicon Valley giant NVIDIA to advance the integration of artificial intelligence in surgical procedures.
The collaboration aims to enhance real-time analysis and broaden the use of AI algorithms in surgical decision-making, education and collaboration within operating rooms across J&J MedTech’s digital surgery ecosystem.
Through a memorandum...
Digital ultrasound company Butterfly Network has achieved EU MDR certification for the Butterfly IQ+ ultrasound system, allowing the company to release its offerings into the European market, including its AI-enabled software Auto B-Line Counter and the company’s Pulse Wave Doppler (PWD).
Auto B line Counter uses AI to help providers determine patient abnormalities by measuring B-lines. B-lines...
PocketHealth, a platform that enables patients to access their medical imaging, announced it secured $33 million in an all-equity Series B funding round led by Round13 Capital.
Deloitte Ventures participated in the round, alongside Samsung Next and existing investors Radical Ventures and Questa Capital.
WHAT IT DOES
PocketHealth provides an AI-enabled platform that allows patients to access their...
Safety-focused large language model company Hippocratic AI announced the closing of an oversubscribed $53 million Series A funding round, bringing its total raise to $120 million.
The funding brings the valuation of the company to $500 million.
The round was co-led by General Catalyst and Premji Invest, with participation from Memorial Hermann Health System and SV Angel.
Additional investors...
Tennessee-based insurtech provider Clover Health announced a partnership with mental and behavioral health platform Quartet Health, which will bring value-based behavioral healthcare to Clover members with severe mental illness through Clover Home Care.
Clover Home Care delivers care access, medication support, mental and physical care coordination, and community resources to seniors. Clover...
Google made several announcements during its Check Up event on Tuesday, including the release of its new MedLM for Chest X-ray, advancements in personalization at Fitbit Labs and the release of its Skin Condition Image Network (SCIN).
Dr. Karen DeSalvo, Google Health's chief health officer, kicked off The Check Up event by highlighting the increased use of AI in healthcare.
"We are at an...
Phoenix-based healthcare provider Banner Health expanded its partnership with Los Angeles-based clinical decision software company Regard, bringing clinical support decision-making to clinicians across Banner Health hospitals.
Regard utilizes algorithms and artificial intelligence to generate clinical decisions, documentation and facilitate clinician-to-clinician communications. Through the...
Hong Kong-based Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), one of China's national research institutes, has developed a large language model-based chatbot to assist doctors in making medical diagnoses and treatments.
HOW IT WORKS
The chatbot, CARES Copilot 1.0, is built based on Meta's Llama 2 LLM. Trained using 100 GPUs from Huawei and...
Portuguese professional football player Cristiano Ronaldo announced the launch of Erakulis, a wellness app that offers fitness, nutrition and mental health services.
The athlete founded the company to provide holistic health offerings that merge technology and curated content crafted under his guidance.
Users can access personalized wellness plans, including fitness programs, nutrition and mental...
