Uber Health announced it is introducing Uber Caregiver, an offering that allows users to add a caregiver to their Uber profile to ask for rides and deliveries, track them in real time and pay using the caregiver's health benefits.
The service, which will be available this summer, will provide caregivers with insights into the care recipients' benefits, such as the balance of the monthly grocery...
Infant monitoring specialist Owlet's Dream Sock has received CE Mark certification by the European Union, meeting its required safety and health requirements and paving the way for the device to be sold in Germany, France and the U.K. later this year.
The Dream Sock, which wraps around a baby's foot, is a nonprescription medical pulse oximetry solution for infants aged 1 to 18 months weighing 6...
Baby tech company Owlet and telehealth staffing and services company Wheel announced they are partnering to allow Wheel's clinicians to prescribe caregivers Owlet's medical pulse oximetry wire-free sock for infants.
Owlet's BabySat, which received FDA clearance last year, uses pulse oximetry technology to monitor a baby's heart rate and oxygen saturation level, and alerts caregivers when a...
Midlife women’s health clinic Midi Health announced it secured $60 million in a Series B funding round led by Emerson Collective, bringing its total raise to $100 million.
GV (Google Ventures), who led the company's $25 million Series A round announced in September, participated in the round.
SemperVirens, Icon Ventures, Felicis, Gingerbread Capital, Steel Sky Ventures, Black Angel Group,...
NeuroX, a neurology-focused online consultation service, and its physician network ATP Partners announced it will participate in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) GUIDE Program to enhance care for dementia patients.
NeuroX, American TelePhysician's brain health division, offers a virtual-care platform that connects individuals with neurologists, psychiatrists and sleep...
Japanese IT and electronics company NEC Corporation and Tokyo Medical and Dental University have developed an AI-based technology to support individuals possibly dealing with chronic lower back pain by automatically estimating its causes.
HOW IT WORKS
Firstly, the digital tool automatically estimates the human skeletal pose structure from an image taken with a smart device. It utilises 2D/3D...
Latest study from South Korea has found differences in purpose and satisfaction with using healthcare applications and wearable health devices among older Koreans.
Researchers from Seoul National University, Yonsei University, aged care company Silvia Health, and DTx maker WELT Corp. surveyed Koreans aged 65 and older to investigate how they are using digital health technologies and how frailty...
Children and young people throughout the United States continue to face some of the biggest hurdles to receiving timely and appropriate healthcare. As incidence rates of mental health and complex medical conditions rise, the majority of treatment-seeking children face strained health systems, limited affordable treatment options and care that is not personalized to their unique social, cultural...
AI-enabled, family-powered autism therapy company Forta announced it closed a $55 million Series A funding round led by Insight Partners.
Alumni Ventures and Exor Ventures also participated in the round, as well as the founders of Forward, Flexport, Curative, 23&Me, Prelude Fertility, Warby Parker, Harry's and Allbirds.
WHAT IT DOES
Forta combines AI and LLMs with a 50-hour training course...
Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai, together with Oita University in Japan, has built what could be the world's first AI model that uses data from wearable devices to predict Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.
Their research team embarked on a study to create a cost-effective, practical tool to pre-screen people suspected of developing the disease. Their findings were...
