Consumer

Healthcare provider looking at a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 06:12 pm December 3, 2024
Pennsylvania-based ThoroughCare, a digital care coordination company, has integrated into Canadian health tech company PointClickCare's marketplace, allowing long-term and post-acute care PointClickCare providers to access ThoroughCare's offerings in one place.  ThoroughCare offers a platform aimed at addressing inefficiencies and fragmentation in patient care, which the company says can result...
Two individuals preparing a done
By  Jessica Hagen 03:15 pm December 2, 2024
Zipline, an instant logistics and delivery company, and the Elton John AIDS Foundation are expanding their partnership to deliver HIV prevention and treatment to youth in Nigeria.  The partnership will leverage Zipline's drone-delivery technology to address Nigeria's supply chain challenges, such as access to antiretroviral therapy, which is a medicine that prevents people who are HIV positive...
Movano Health's EvieMED Ring
By  Jessica Hagen 11:47 am December 2, 2024
Wearables maker Movano Health announced it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its health monitoring wearable, EvieMED Ring.  EvieMED Ring is a smart ring that combines medical and wellness metrics, including blood oxygen levels, heart rate and metrics related to energy, logging of mood, sleep and activity. The publicly traded company touts that receiving FDA clearance will allow it to pursue...
Nurse standing in the clinical setting
By  Jessica Hagen 03:59 pm November 27, 2024
Safety-focused large language model company Hippocratic AI has been issued its first patent by the U.S. Patent Office, which includes the company's LLM innovations incorporated into its safety-focused LLM built with a constellation architecture dubbed Polaris. Hippocratic AI's generative AI solution focuses on nondiagnostic healthcare tasks such as medication onboarding and monthly reconciliation...
Digital image of two hands touching each other through a data screen
By  Jessica Hagen 02:08 pm November 27, 2024
Elon Musk's brain-computer interface implant startup Neuralink announced on X that it received approval to launch a new feasibility study, CONVOY, which will test the use of its wireless brain-computer interface (BCI), or N1 implant, to control an investigational assistive robotic arm. "This is an important first step towards restoring not only digital freedom, but also physical freedom. More...
A person sleeping in bed
By  Adam Ang 08:20 pm November 26, 2024
Researchers from South Korea have built machine learning-based models that can predict mood episodes using only sleep and circadian rhythm data from wearable devices.  The team comprised researchers from the Institute for Basic Sciences (IBS), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and Korea University College of Medicine. FINDINGS In a study, which findings were published in...
Two programmers working on code at night
By  Jessica Hagen 03:55 pm November 26, 2024
Google has introduced Health AI Developer Foundations (HAI-DEF), a public resource for healthcare developers that provides open-weight models to help them build healthcare applications, initially focused on dermatology, radiology and pathology. Open-weight AI models are a type of black box AI technology that allows developers to apply and fine-tune a model for specific tasks, allowing them to...
Jake Leach, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Dexcom
By  Jessica Hagen 01:20 pm November 26, 2024
Editor's note: This article has been updated with clarifying comments from Dexcom.  Glucose-monitoring specialist Dexcom made several announcements this year, including receiving FDA clearance for its over-the-counter continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) solution Stelo, G7's expanded capabilities to connect directly to the Apple Watch and, most recently, its $75 million investment in and strategic...
Person holding a tablet in one hand and a prescription bottle in the other
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:58 pm November 25, 2024
Allurion Technologies, a weight-loss platform, launched AllurionMeds to give patients GLP-1 medications for weight loss combined with its AI-enabled Coach Iris platform. The company aims to advance long-term weight maintenance through virtual access to dieticians and a connected smart scale that measures not just weight, but also muscle and bone mass. Along with Coach Iris, patients will have...
Five people standing by each other
By  Anthony Vecchione 08:00 am November 25, 2024
PatientsLikeMe (PLM), a patient-engagement and activation platform, is announcing the launch of Ella, an AI assistant to help women manage their health, powered by generative AI platform Ema. PatientsLikeMe is a personalized health network with a patient support community that allows patients to learn from each other's lived experiences. Users can also access education, tools and services to...