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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Telemental health company Brightside Health announced it raised $33 million dollars in Series C funding powered by healthcare-focused venture capital firm S32.
Kennedy Lewis, Time BioVentures, and 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki participated in the round. Existing investors ACME, Mousse Partners and TriVentures also contributed.
The company confirmed the $33 million raise in an email to...
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...
