Accompany Health, a hybrid care provider for low-income patients with complex needs, announced its launch with $56 million in Series A funding from Venrock, ARCH Venture Partners, IVP, Evidenced and Granite Capital Management.
WHAT IT DOES
The Bethesda-based company offers low-income patients 24/7 in-home and virtual care services, including primary care and urgent care, mental health services,...
Amazon Pharmacy and hybrid primary care provider One Medical have launched a pilot program to expand Amazon's hybrid primary care offerings by giving One Medical providers the ability to request medication consultations for patients with complex medication regimens.
The focus of the pilot, which launched in the fourth quarter of 2023, has been on elderly patients who are managing multiple chronic...
Rural-focused e-clinics chain CureBay scored another Rs 620 million ($7.5 million) in funding as part of a Series A round led by Elevar Equity. This comes on top of the first $6 million it raised in 2022.
According to their press release, the additional funds will be used to invest in their membership programme by hiring over 200 data scientists and experts in pharmacy and diagnostics. It will...
The healthcare sector witnessed a significant transformation in 2023, largely driven by the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in patient diagnostics. This integration marks a revolutionary step in how medical professionals approach diagnosis, offering a blend of efficiency, accuracy and personalization previously unattainable.
The dawn of AI-driven diagnostics
Artificial intelligence in...
WellTheory, a virtual care platform for individuals with autoimmune diseases, announced its first employer partnership with Maven Clinic to offer the virtual women and family health provider's employees access to nutrition and lifestyle coaching from WellTheory.
WellTheory provides patients with two virtual visits per month and unlimited messaging with coaches specializing in autoimmune diseases...
In-home care provider DispatchHealth and grocery delivery company Instacart announced a partnership to provide Dispatch's in-home care professionals with tools to prescribe food to patients using Instacart Health.
DispatchHealth offers patients in-home urgent care medical visits, which can be scheduled via telephone or the company's app or website. A clinician arrives at the patient's home...
Tech-enabled heart disease detection company CardioSignal announced it secured $10 million in Series A funding, bringing its total raise to $23 million.
DigiTx Partners led the round. Sandwater also participated, alongside existing investor Maki.vc.
Dr. David J. Kim., managing director of DigiTx, will join CardioSignal's board of directors.
WHAT IT DOES
CardioSignal uses gyroscope and...
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...
Samsung to integrate Lunit's AI in premium X-ray devices
South Korean medical AI provider Lunit has signed a three-year supply contract with Samsung Electronics.
The deal is for the integration of Lunit's two chest X-ray AI solutions – Lunit INSIGHT CXR and Lunit INSIGHT CXR Triage – into Samsung's line of premium X-ray devices.
According to a press release, the AI-integrated X-ray devices will...
On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit announced it would uphold the ban instituted by the International Trade Commission's exclusion order on sales and imports of Apple's Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 in the U.S.
The tech giant, however, has found a way to keep the Watches on shelves and workaround the ban by tweaking their Watches not to include the disputed blood...
