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...
Scottish sensor technology startup Novosound secured a patent for its ultrasound instrumentation system, the Slanj digital platform, which is targeted at the medical and wearable-device market.
Novosound produces a wearable, WiFi-enabled ultrasound device that uses gel-free, high-resolution sensors to solve issues associated with traditional ultrasound technology.
The patent gives Novosound...
GE HealthCare announced that its Brazil-based partner Ionic Health received FDA 510(k) clearance for its nCommand Lite, which provides diagnostic imaging centers with real-time scanning, remote guidance and operational support, and the ability to view/review images remotely.
Ionic’s software interacts with equipment like a local technician, enabling remote operation of MRI, CT and PET scans with...
Midlife women’s health clinic Midi Health is teaming up with digital cognitive assessment company Neurotrack to help women determine whether brain fog symptoms are indicative of menopause or signs of severe cognitive impairment such as early dementia.
Midi Health clinicians will be able to send patients a Neurotrack cognitive screening that can be completed on a smartphone, tablet or computer....
RNA-focused digital therapeutics company Flamingo Therapeutics added a new member to its board of directors, Dr. Ezra Cohen.
Flamingo produces RNA therapies for oncology and is backed by investors such as Andera Partners, Bpifrance Large Venture, Perceptive Advisors, Sphera and VIB.
Dr. Cohen has a history in the development of pharmaceuticals, especially head and neck cancers.
"The science...
Digital ultrasound company Butterfly Network has achieved EU MDR certification for the Butterfly IQ+ ultrasound system, allowing the company to release its offerings into the European market, including its AI-enabled software Auto B-Line Counter and the company’s Pulse Wave Doppler (PWD).
Auto B line Counter uses AI to help providers determine patient abnormalities by measuring B-lines. B-lines...
Safety-focused large language model company Hippocratic AI announced the closing of an oversubscribed $53 million Series A funding round, bringing its total raise to $120 million.
The funding brings the valuation of the company to $500 million.
The round was co-led by General Catalyst and Premji Invest, with participation from Memorial Hermann Health System and SV Angel.
Additional investors...
Tennessee-based insurtech provider Clover Health announced a partnership with mental and behavioral health platform Quartet Health, which will bring value-based behavioral healthcare to Clover members with severe mental illness through Clover Home Care.
Clover Home Care delivers care access, medication support, mental and physical care coordination, and community resources to seniors. Clover...
Stress and energy management wearables company Welltory unveiled a new feature for Apple Watch users called Today Screen, which will generate users' health data from the Watch into guidance on how to reduce sedentary stress.
The app will provide wearers with an overview regarding the amount of harm sedentary stress takes on their health, helping users make changes to their habits in real time....
Phoenix-based healthcare provider Banner Health expanded its partnership with Los Angeles-based clinical decision software company Regard, bringing clinical support decision-making to clinicians across Banner Health hospitals.
Regard utilizes algorithms and artificial intelligence to generate clinical decisions, documentation and facilitate clinician-to-clinician communications. Through the...
