Digital Health

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By  Jessica Hagen 04:53 pm April 5, 2024
Jason Gorevic, CEO and board member of telehealth platform Teladoc Health, is stepping down after 15 years leading the company, and Mala Murthy, the company's chief financial officer, is stepping in as acting CEO.  Gorevic's departure, effective immediately, comes after the company's stock plummeted 22% in February. It missed fourth-quarter earnings estimates and projected 2024 revenue to be...
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By  Trevor Dermody 01:40 pm April 5, 2024
Columbia, Maryland-based hospital system MedStar Health announced it partnered with in-home care provider DispatchHealth to bring acute care services to patients recently discharged from Medstar facilities in Washington D.C.  The partnership will focus on avoiding readmissions and visits, which typically occur 72 hours after discharge.  Denver-based DispatchHealth offers in-home urgent care...
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By  Trevor Dermody 01:02 pm April 5, 2024
AI-enabled cardiovascular company Cardio Diagnostics Holdings announced it is partnering with care-navigation platform Navierre to make assessing risk and diagnosing heart diseases more accessible.  Cardio Diagnostics Holdings' AI solutions, Epi+GenCHD and PrecisionCHD, use blood samples to provide patients with personalized information regarding their risk for coronary heart disease based on...
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By  Trevor Dermody 02:30 pm April 4, 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced it is launching S.A.R.A.H, or Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health, a generative AI assistant designed to provide information on major health topics such as healthy lifestyle habits and mental health. The prototype health AI can communicate in eight languages and is available on any device.  Topics it touches on include cancer, heart disease, lung...
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By  Trevor Dermody 01:10 pm April 4, 2024
Nonprofit organization Zero Overdose is partnering with digital community health worker navigation platform Pear Suite to provide training for community health workers (CHWs) and other home and community-based service providers across the country.  Zero Overdose gives providers and organizations tools for overdose safety planning and ultimately preventing unintentional overdose deaths, while...
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By  Jessica Hagen 05:16 pm April 3, 2024
Health insurance company MotivHealth announced it is partnering with Utah-based telehealth company AZOVA to provide its members with Birth Doula Support Memberships.  AZOVA is a digital health platform that offers services in primary care, pediatrics, behavioral health, women's health, dermatology, men's health, vaccinations and testing services.  Regarding its women's health services, the...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:43 pm April 3, 2024
Providence, a large not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system, announced the launch of Praia Health, a consumer platform for healthcare systems, alongside the closing of a $20 million oversubscribed Series A investment round.  Frist Cressey Ventures led the round, with participation from Epsilon Health Investors, Providence Ventures and SignalFire. Navid Farzad, partner at Frist Cressey, and Sara...
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By  Trevor Dermody 10:55 am April 3, 2024
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a statement from Pager. Virtual care and services navigation company Pager Health announced its developed three generative AI applications for payers built on Google Cloud, dubbed Chat Summation, FAQ Bot and Sentiment Analysis.  Chat Summation is a clinical documentation tool that summarizes patient interactions and provides notes, which the...
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By  Trevor Dermody 10:28 am April 3, 2024
Chicago-based GE HealthCare announced it closed its acquisition of AI and imaging solutions company MIM Software, expanding its digital imaging offerings.  Cleveland-based MIM Software provides remote software solutions for oncology, nuclear medicine, cardiac imaging and neuroimaging.  The company touts its products as reducing time spent on manual tasks, allowing clinicians to focus on providing...
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:09 pm April 2, 2024
Digital cardiac and lung disease health startup Eko Health announced it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its AI-enabled cardiac tool that helps with the early detection of low ejection fraction, a key indicator of heart failure.  Eko Low Ejection Fraction Tool (ELEFT), which officially received the green light from the FDA in March, is an AI-enabled tool that allows providers to detect low...