Cedars-Sinai announced it is expanding its AI-powered virtual healthcare platform, Cedars-Sinai Connect, to include a Spanish version of the app for parents of children aged 3 to 17 and Spanish-speaking adults.
Parents of children 3 to 17 will have 24/7 on-demand access to Cedars-Sinai healthcare providers for urgent issues, such as colds, rashes, flu and coughs. They can also choose a scheduled...
Women’s telehealth startup Twentyeight Health announced Tuesday that it’s offering reproductive health services and information in Spanish.
The company will now have a Spanish language website with educational articles and FAQs about birth control options and services, customer support in Spanish, and telehealth visits and messages with Spanish-speaking doctors in Texas and Florida. Twentyeight...
Digital behavioral health platform Ginger announced Monday its on-demand mental healthcare services will soon be available to members in Spanish.
Select Ginger clients will have access to the Spanish language program in the fall, and all members will be able to use Ginger’s behavioral health tools in Spanish by early 2022.
The company said members will have access to the full app experience in...
San Francisco-based ConsejoSano, which makes a health services navigation platform for Spanish speakers in America, has raised $4.9 million in Series A funding in a round led by 7wire Ventures. Tufts Health Ventures, TOTAL Impact Capital, Wanxiang Healthcare Investments, Acumen, Oxeon Partners and Impact Engine also contributed, bringing the company’s total funding to date at $7.2 million.
The...
Noting the prevalence of mobile phones and mobile internet access even among poor, migrant farm workers, the largest poison-control agency in the country is turning to that technology to reduce human exposure to pesticides in California.
The California Poison Control System (CPCS), a state-funded program headquartered at the University of California-San Francisco, has introduced the Pesticide...
Late last year MobiHealthNews interviewed mHealth analyst Jody Ranck who pointed out that there are very few mobile health apps and services available for Spanish speakers in the US -- the exceptions being Text4Baby and TuDiabetes. This week, Miguel Tirado, PhD, Professor of Health and Human services at California State University penned a must-read analysis of mobile health services for Latinos...
