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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 10:23 am April 2, 2024
Seattle Children's Research Institute and tech giant Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab partnered on research examining the cause of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), and determined that genetic testing at birth may help to determine a child's risk of SIDS.  The two organizations discussed the research during an event in Washington, which brought together more than 155 researchers and scientists to...
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By  Trevor Dermody 04:54 pm April 1, 2024
Otsuka Pharmaceuticals and Click Therapeutics announced that Rejoyn, a smartphone-based prescription digital therapeutic for major depressive disorder (MDD), scored FDA clearance to be used as an adjunct to clinician-managed care.  Rejoyn is a six-week remote treatment program to help enhance cognitive control of emotion through a combination of clinically-validated cognitive emotional training...
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By  Trevor Dermody 03:58 pm March 29, 2024
Conversational AI organization Openstream.ai announced a new patent for automated digital twin technology that gives EVA, or enterprise virtual assistant, users the ability to utilize virtual assistants that are digital twins of human experts in their respective fields.  The digital twins share their human counterparts' knowledge and unique personas and engage in empathetic, hallucination-free...
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By  Trevor Dermody 01:57 pm March 29, 2024
Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has debuted Virtual Urgent Care, available to children and young adults up to age 21 who require after-hours care for non-emergency illness or injuries. The service pairs patients with CHLA providers via video meeting from a computer, tablet or smartphone.  Virtual Urgent Care will treat non-emergency illness and injuries, including fever, upper respiratory...
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By  Trevor Dermody 10:12 am March 28, 2024
Generative AI company Abridge announced a partnership with Northern California-based healthcare system Sutter Health, which will allow Abridge’s clinical documentation software to be available to Sutter clinicians.  Abridge’s software is a generative AI for clinical conversation that reduces provider workload by automating note-taking.  The software will be directly embedded into Sutter’s Epic...
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By  Trevor Dermody 02:06 pm March 27, 2024
LGBTQIA+ focused digital healthcare provider FOLX Health announced a partnership with Crisis Text Line, to provide 24/7 free text-based mental health support services to FOLX members. Crisis Text Line is a global nonprofit organization that provides free, confidential text-based mental health support offered in English and Spanish.  The partnership will increase access to support for FOLX members...