AI assistant

Healthcare professional listening to a pregnant person's stomach with a stethoscope
By  Jessica Hagen 02:08 pm November 7, 2023
Editor's note: This story has been updated with a comment from Philips.  Royal Philips received an additional $44.6 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, bringing its total received to $60 million, to support the global deployment of the tech giant's AI-enabled, FDA-cleared Lumify Ultrasound System. In 2021, Philips received an initial grant of $15.4 million from the Gates...
A patient talking to a doctor with an enlarged image of the Abridge app. It shows an assessment and plan for hypertension and migraines.
By  Emily Olsen 09:51 am August 11, 2022
AI-enabled medical documentation startup Abridge announced Thursday it had scooped up $12.5 million in Series A-1 funding.  The round was led by Wittington Ventures with participation from existing investors including Union Square Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Pillar Venture Capital and UPMC Enterprises. New investors Canadian computer scientist and AI expert Yoshua Bengio and Whistler...
[Left] Anjan Bhojarajan, HealthifyMe Chief Business Officer, and [Right] Tushar Vashisht, HealthifyMe CEO
By  Adam Ang 05:02 am April 22, 2022
Indian health and fitness app HealthifyMe has launched a new offering that combines health tracking and smart diagnostics to deliver personalised fitness and nutrition plans. HealthifyPro is its latest flagship fitness plan that comes with a biosensor system of continuous glucose monitor (BIOS) and other sensors and body monitors; a connected Smart Scale metabolic panel; and support from in-house...