Today patients are moving into the driver's seat of their care. The digitization of health and high-deductible health plans has continued to push the dialog around the consumerization of care. This, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, exposed patients to different modalities of care.
So what's next for the patient experience? MobiHealthNews asked Banner Health's customer experience channels VP,...
US-company Spright is currently building up a drone-based delivery network for health care across the US with more than 300 locations.
The medical flight service provider has signed a purchase agreement with German drone pioneer Wingcopter worth $16 million (€14.4M).
The companies aim to meet the demand for medical drone services in the US with news of partnership being announcement last week....
Remote monitoring company Datos has teamed up with Kaiser Permanente's venture arm to develop a new self-service COVID-19 workforce tracking platform called Sidney Navigator.
The tool was designed to help employers keep track of their staff's population COVID-19 status. It can help track employees' symptoms, illnesses and vaccination records. The companies said the platform was created to...
SeqOne Genomics, a French digital health startup focused on genomic analysis solutions for personalised medicine, has announced a €20 million Series A funding round.
The round was led by Omnes, Merieux Equity Partners and the Software Club.
The investments will go straight into the company’s venture to accelerate machine learning adoption and big data integration with the vision to better support...
Seed funding of €2 million has been raised by medtech startup Inflow for its novel science-based app for ADHD patients, according to EU Startups.
Among the investors are Hoxton Ventures and Route 66 Ventures, along with angel investor Quit Genius.
WHY IT MATTERS
With the launch of their innovative app, the London-based founders Levi Epstein and Seb Isaacs want to enable ADHD patients to actively...
Oman’s Armed Forces Hospital, also known as Hospital MoD, has become the first in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) to adopt the ClarifEye Augmented Reality (AR) Surgical Navigation by Royal Philips.
The “industry-first solution” – used in spinal surgery – combines imaging and navigation that uses AR into one system. Hospital MoD has already successfully completed surgery on patients using the...
Virtual surgery platform Proximie partners with Vodafone Business
London-based healthtech platform Proximie, has announced a partnership with Vodafone Business to increase access to surgical healthcare and training.
Proximie’s technology allows healthcare to virtually ’scrub-in’, record, and interact with any connected operating room in the world.
The collaboration will bring Proximie’s connected...
Celo Health, an Auckland-based provider of a mobile messaging platform for healthcare organisations, has entered the United States market. It has set up headquarters in Seattle early in the year.
WHAT IT DOES
According to a press release, Celo Health offers a HIPAA-compliant messaging platform that enables seamless and secure collaboration among healthcare teams. It can also integrate with...
Venture investment in healthcare nearly doubled in Europe last year, rising from $8.4 billion (€7.4bn) in 2020 to $13.9 billion (€12.2bn) in 2021, according to a report by Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).
The annual Healthcare Investments and Exits report found that healthtech funding in Europe almost doubled from $1.36 billion (€1.2bn) in 2020 to $2.6 billion (€2.2bn) in 2021.
European investment in...
Warsaw-based digital healthcare provider has announced a €5 million Series A funding round led by Cogito Capital Partners.
Since it was founded in 2017, HigoSense has raised €8 million and launched its medical devices across Europe. With the latest funding, the company aims to raise awareness of its product in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
WHY IT MATTERS
Higo, as the developers call their...