Tech giant Google Cloud and global enterprise Bayer are partnering to develop AI applications aimed at reducing radiologist burnout and increasing efficiencies in diagnoses.
Bayer will expand its innovation platform by using Google Cloud technology, including its generative AI tools. Other tools that will be available on the platform include Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, BigQuery, Healthcare API...
Online special education and mental health services company eLuma has appointed Andy Myers as CEO.
eLuma, a Leeds Equity Partners company, provides mental health and behavioral support offerings, including speech-language teletherapy, for K-12 schools.
Myers brings expertise in scaling operations to eLuma and previously held positions at learning and mentoring nonprofit Waterford, SaaS learning...
Warehouse retailer Costco is expanding its healthcare footprint by offering a comprehensive weight loss service to its members across all 50 states with a three-month subscription starting at $179.
The program is run through digital healthcare marketplace Sesame and represents an expansion of Costco's partnership with the startup, first announced last September.
Sesame's healthcare marketplace...
Mobile ultrasound company Clarius Mobile Health partnered with AI ultrasound organization ThinkSono for a new application called ThinkSono Guidance, an AI-enabled application available in Europe that pairs with Clarius scanners to improve deep vein thrombosis (DVT) detection.
Clarius handheld wireless AI-powered ultrasound scanners connect to smartphones and deliver high-resolution ultrasound...
Blackbird, a neuroscience-backed hybrid mental health provider for children and young adults, raised $17 million in February in a Series A funding round led by Define Ventures with participation from Frist Cressey Ventures and GreyMatter, bringing its total raise to $23 million.
The company's CEO, Tom Peterson, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss why he went from initially being an investor...
Columbia, Maryland-based hospital system MedStar Health announced it partnered with in-home care provider DispatchHealth to bring acute care services to patients recently discharged from Medstar facilities in Washington D.C.
The partnership will focus on avoiding readmissions and visits, which typically occur 72 hours after discharge.
Denver-based DispatchHealth offers in-home urgent care...
AI-enabled cardiovascular company Cardio Diagnostics Holdings announced it is partnering with care-navigation platform Navierre to make assessing risk and diagnosing heart diseases more accessible.
Cardio Diagnostics Holdings' AI solutions, Epi+GenCHD and PrecisionCHD, use blood samples to provide patients with personalized information regarding their risk for coronary heart disease based on...
South Korean medical AI company Lunit has recently secured deals with hospitals in Europe, where the medical device market – the second largest after the North American market – is worth $155 billion.
It won the contract to supply a lung disease screening solution to TeleDiag, the largest teleradiology group in France.
Lunit was also chosen to provide a mammography analysis solution to the...
California-based Biolinq, a health technology company developing precision multi-analyte wearable biosensors for metabolic health, announced it scored $58 million in financing.
Alpha Wave Ventures led the round, with participation from Niterra’s corporate venture capital fund, which is jointly operated with Pegasus Tech Ventures.
Existing investors, including AXA IM Alts, Senvest Management,...
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...
