Consumer

Military serviceman hugging another person
By  Jessica Hagen 09:01 pm October 16, 2023
Virtual speech therapy platform Great Speech announced that it is now an in-network provider within the TRICARE West Region through Health Net Federal Services and is extending its offerings to military service members and their families. Great Speech offers children and adults, including Medicare members, virtual therapy services for articulation and phonology, executive function, language...
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By  Jessica Hagen 03:50 pm October 12, 2023
Digital care management platform Sidekick Health announced it acquired Hamburg-based aidhere, a prescription digital therapeutic for people with obesity.  Sidekick develops personalized digital therapeutics and programs for chronic and lifestyle disease management, ranging from diabetes to ulcerative colitis and smoking cessation. Its offering enables multiple interventions to be synchronized...
Healthcare provider sitting in a chair at a desk with a computer on it while looking at a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 01:20 pm October 12, 2023
Insurer Cigna's health services subsidiary Evernorth announced it acquired asynchronous platform Bright.md, which it will use to enhance the virtual care offerings of its portfolio company MDLIVE.  Portland-based Bright.md offers an automated patient intake and virtual care connection platform to improve efficiency for hybrid care providers and patients.  Through Bright.md's platform, patients...
Healthcare provider looking at a tablet while holding their chin as though deep in thought
By  Jessica Hagen 01:34 pm October 11, 2023
Mendel.ai, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help structure medical information, announced the launch of Hypercube, an AI-powered platform that integrates structured and unstructured text data, democratizes analytics, and allows a user to ask questions in free text and receive outcomes from specific patient data.  Karim Galil, cofounder and CEO of Mendel.ai, announced the new...
Seniors at Lions Befrienders playing the AMI app on their tablets
By  Adam Ang 05:32 am October 11, 2023
A new mobile app developed in Singapore holds promise to prevent the progression of dementia by helping improve the multilingual thinking of senior folks.  HOW IT WORKS A team of app developers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) has built what could be the world's first multilingual app for dementia prevention, Ami (an acronym for Advancing Mental Invigoration).  Its...
Panelists in the Constellation Forum 2023
By  Nathan Eddy 03:25 pm October 10, 2023
Artificial intelligence could have profound implications for the field of oncology, concluded panelists speaking to journalist and moderator Katie Couric at the Constellation Forum 2023 at Northwell Health last week. Dr. Richard Barakat, physician in chief and executive director of cancer services and research division at Northwell Health, noted that using AI in imaging will help radiologists and...
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By  Jessica Hagen 11:34 am October 10, 2023
Hemant Taneja, CEO and managing director of venture capital firm General Catalyst, and Dr. Marc Harrison, former CEO of Intermountain Health, announced the formation of a new business venture owned by General Catalyst dubbed the Health Assurance Transformation Corporation (HATCo) that will see Harrison as its CEO. The pair also announced the intent to buy a health system that will put technology...
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By  Jessica Hagen 03:40 pm October 9, 2023
b.well Connected Health, a patient-facing health management platform, announced it is integrating its offerings into the Samsung Health app to provide Galaxy smartphone users with a single platform to access their health data, receive health insights and recommendations, and connect with care providers virtually and in person. b.well's FHIR-enabled platform connects a patient’s health records,...
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By  Jessica Hagen 05:13 pm October 6, 2023
Mental health platform Headway announced it closed a $125 million Series C funding round led by Spark Capital, boosting its valuation to more than $1 billion. Existing investors a16z, Accel and Thrive participated in the round, as well as new strategic investors led by Health Care Service Corp.  Will Reed, general partner at Spark Capital, will join the company's board of directors.   WHAT THEY...