AI

Healthcare provider wearing scrubs and a face mask while looking at screens with diagnostic images on them
By  Jessica Hagen 08:48 pm May 15, 2024
The Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group released a roadmap for AI policy in the U.S. Senate, encouraging the Senate Appropriations Committee to fund cross-government artificial intelligence research and development projects, including research for biotechnology and applications of AI that would fundamentally transform medicine.  The group acknowledges AI's various use cases, including those within...
An obstetrician-gynaecologist reading an automated report by Sonio Detect
By  Adam Ang 08:40 pm May 14, 2024
Seoul-based medical equipment maker Samsung Medison has recently agreed to fully purchase Sonio, a foetal ultrasound AI company in France, for 126 billion won ($92 million).  The four-year-old French startup has been developing IT solutions for obstetrics and gynaecology ultrasound, assisting medical professionals in documenting and evaluating ultrasound examinations.  Last year, it obtained the...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:23 pm May 10, 2024
GenAI radiology workflow company Rad AI announced it secured $50 million in Series B funding led by Khosla Ventures, bringing the company's total raise to more than $80 million. WiL (World Innovation Lab) participated in the round, alongside existing investors OCV Partners, Gradient Ventures (Google's AI-focused fund), Kickstart Fund and ARTIS Ventures.  Rad AI offers radiologists generative AI...
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By  Adam Ang 02:02 am May 10, 2024
A mobile application used to assess sports-related head and brain injuries is now being tested for detecting and monitoring neurological disorders.  BrainEye's mobile test is now being studied in clinical trials at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. It digitises the traditional eye movement test, which is done in 60 seconds through a mobile device, and then collects and measures over 20 ocular...
Human genome analysis DNA molecular structure
By  Nathan Eddy 01:46 pm May 3, 2024
AI-enabled protein design company Profluent has leveraged artificial intelligence to design an open-source gene editor called OpenCRISPR-1, demonstrating the technology can be used to create molecules with the power to edit human DNA. Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) technology, developed more than a decade ago, allows scientists to modify DNA sequences within...
Juan Lavista Ferres, head of Microsoft's AI for Good Lab
By  Jessica Hagen 07:37 pm April 29, 2024
The head of Microsoft's AI for Good Lab, Juan Lavista Ferres, coauthored a book providing real-world examples of how artificial intelligence can responsibly be used to positively affect humankind. Ferres sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss his new book, AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action and Health. He talked about ways to mitigate biases within data input in AI...
Healthcare professional sitting at a desk looking at a computer
By  Jessica Hagen 12:29 pm April 26, 2024
OpenAI and Moderna announced the pair have expanded their partnership to offer the pharma giant's employees access to ChatGPT Enterprise, a platform that allows customizable GPTs to be developed for a specific purpose.  Through ChatGPT Enterprise, users can create GPTs by beginning a conversation with ChatGPT, then providing extra knowledge on a subject or giving it instructions. Users can also...
Scientist in a lab wearing safety goggles while putting something in a beaker
By  Jessica Hagen 02:21 pm April 24, 2024
Xaira Therapeutics, an AI-enabled drug discovery and development company, announced its launch with more than $1 billion in capital.   The biotechnology company is a joint incubation by ARCH Venture Partners and Foresite Labs, the lead investors in the funding round.  Lux Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, F-Prime, Rsquared, SV Angel, Menlo Ventures, Sequoia Capital, NEA, the Parker Institute for...
Healthcare provider sitting at a desk in the clinical setting while looking at a computer
By  Jessica Hagen 10:31 am April 24, 2024
Prior authorization automation platform Cohere Health and health insurer Humana announced they are expanding their 2021 partnership, which focused on the prior authorization process for musculoskeletal issues, to include diagnostic imaging and sleep services. The Cohere Unify Platform leverages AI to accelerate the prior authorization process by using predictive technology and clinical...
Person wearing mask holding test tube
By  Trevor Dermody 06:10 pm April 19, 2024
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a comment from the NIH. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have developed an artificial intelligence tool that predicts whether a patient will respond to cancer-treatment drugs using individual tumor cells, according to a study published in Nature Cancer. Traditional approaches to...