AI

Healthcare provider in scrubs
By  Jessica Hagen 02:55 pm February 27, 2025
Academic health system Emory Healthcare is partnering with Atropos Health, a company that translates real-world clinical data into real-world evidence, to advance medication formulary decisions and protocols.  Emory is piloting a program that aims to advance patient care by allowing clinical questions to be answered in real time using Atropos' platform.   The Atropos Evidence Network allows Emory...
Three business people sitting around a table and talking
By  Jessica Hagen 12:35 pm February 24, 2025
Musician and record producer Pharrell Williams' nonprofit organization, Black Ambition, is accepting applications for the 2025 Black Ambition Prize Competition, which will provide more than $1 million in funding for up to 25 applicants focused on innovating in the healthcare, technology, AI, consumer products and services, and media and entertainment. Early-stage underrepresented entrepreneurs...
Interface of Coreline Soft's lung cancer imaging AI software
By  Adam Ang 02:09 am February 21, 2025
Coreline Soft announces Australia launch, new FDA approval South Korean medical imaging AI company Coreline Soft has made its way to Australia after securing a partnership with a major medical device supplier. It entered into a strategic partnership with ASX-listed ParagonCare, which aims at major hospitals launching lung cancer screening projects as part of the Australian National Lung Cancer...
Laboratory scientists reviewing a computer-aided analysis
By  Adam Ang 12:16 am February 20, 2025
Engineers from the University of Hong Kong have developed a generative AI-based imaging method that supports cancer diagnosis.  HOW IT WORKS CytoMAD (Cyto-Morphology Adversarial Distillation) combines AI and microfluidic technology to do label-free imaging of tumours at the individual cell level. It can capture cell images "at great speed, enhance these images, and automatically correct...
Harrison.ai co-founders during a product demonstration
By  Adam Ang 02:53 am February 19, 2025
Harrison.ai has recently raised a total of $112 million in a Series C funding round led by Aware Super, ECP, and Horizons Ventures.  The earlier reported $20 million investment from the Australian government's National Reconstruction Fund Corporation adds to this pool. Ord Minnett, Wollemi Capital Group, Blackbird Ventures, and Alpha JWC Ventures also participated in this round.  Founded in 2018...
Daniel Kraft, physician-scientist and founder of NextMed Health and Digital.Health
By  Jessica Hagen 01:11 pm February 14, 2025
AI is reshaping healthcare, making it more personalized and proactive, says Daniel Kraft, physician-scientist and founder of NextMed Health and Digital.Health.  Kraft sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the healthcare technology conference NextMed Health and how he sees AI-powered tools improving accessibility and affordability. Still, he warns that regulation and outdated systems remain...
Business representatives shaked a deal
By  Adam Ang 02:28 am February 14, 2025
Kauvery Hospital invests in Lifesigns Lifesigns has received undisclosed funding from Kauvery Hospital Group's investment arm, Healthcare Capital.  The new funds, based on a press statement, will "advance Lifesigns’ AI and predictive algorithm capabilities." The company offers an AI-powered remote patient monitoring system that provides alerts and predictive insights.   Lifesigns is now gearing...
Alexandra Hospital team behind an AI for robotic total knee replacement
By  Adam Ang 01:43 am February 14, 2025
A novel AI developed at Alexandra Hospital automates implant positioning in robotic total knee replacement surgery.  A team at Alexandra Hospital's Department of Orthopaedic Surgery recently obtained the World Intellectual Property Organization patent for their AI algorithm. WHAT IT DOES Developed by Dr Glen Liau Zi Qiang, an orthopaedic surgery consultant at AH, the AI optimises implant...
Two people shaking hands in a government building
By  Jessica Hagen and Anthony Vecchione 04:37 pm February 13, 2025
Proposed legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives will allow AI and machine learning technology to prescribe drugs approved by the FDA autonomously.  The bill, H.R.238, introduced on Jan. 7, would require amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to "clarify that artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies can qualify as a practitioner eligible, to...
A photo of a person's eye
By  Adam Ang 06:55 pm February 11, 2025
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Victoria, Australia led one of the largest eye studies in the world that used AI to analyse eye images of over 50,000 people to better understand the retina's connection with various diseases. The international study, funded by California-based Lowy Medical Research Institute, tapped into a dataset of optical coherence tomography (OCT) images...