AI

Closeup of test tube
By  Anthony Vecchione 12:04 pm March 26, 2025
Health technology company Royal Philips has expanded its partnership with Ibex Medical Analytics that includes a new release of the Philips IntelliSite Pathology Solution (PIPS) to speed up adoption of AI-enabled digital pathology tools.  In 2021, Philips and Ibex combined PIPS with Ibex’s Galen AI-powered cancer diagnostics platform.  The agreement then was aimed at helping pathologists generate...
Avatar face image
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:13 pm March 19, 2025
New York-based pediatric mental health platform Fort Health announced it is partnering with AI-powered coaching platform Colleva to train therapists using AI avatar-directed, face-to-face simulations. The partnership aims to provide pertinent and appealing made-to-order scenarios, allowing Fort Health to rapidly train its therapists using evidence-based therapeutic protocols, which may lead to...
Technician working in a lab
By  Anthony Vecchione 10:51 am March 13, 2025
The American Cancer Society (ACS) and healthcare AI company Layer Health announced a multi-year collaboration aimed at using large language models (LLMs) to expedite cancer research. ACS will use Layer Health’s LLM-powered data abstraction platform to pull clinical data from thousands of medical charts of patients enrolled in ACS research studies. Those studies include the Cancer Prevention Study...
Head shot Chad Dodd
By  Jessica Hagen and Anthony Vecchione 06:11 pm March 6, 2025
In 2024, athenahealth introduced Ambient Notes, aimed at generating clinical documentation by integrating ambient listening and generative AI directly into the athenaOne clinical workflow.  Chad Dodd, vice president of product management at athenahealth, sat down with MobiHealthNews at the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition to discuss the company's AI-enabled products and how it...
Three healthcare providers sitting in a circle and talking to each other
By  Anthony Vecchione 03:09 pm February 21, 2025
Machine learning models trained on routine clinical data from electronic health records (EHRs) predicted diagnostic progression to schizophrenia or bipolar disorder in patients undergoing treatment in psychiatric services for other mental illnesses, according to a new cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry. The cohort study, Predicting Diagnostic Progression to Schizophrenia or Bipolar...
Two adults with child
By  Anthony Vecchione 09:19 am February 20, 2025
Frontera Health, an AI-enabled autism care company, announced its launch with $32 million in seed funding. The funding round was co-led by Lux Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Bison Ventures, Menlo Ventures and Inspired Capital participating.  WHAT IT DOES The company's AI-powered tools help clinicians diagnose and treat children with autism and comparable disorders. Frontera's...
Executives consulting
By  Anthony Vecchione 09:49 am February 18, 2025
AI-enabled risk adjustment platform Keebler Health has raised $6 million in seed funding. Freestyle Capital, MBX Capital, New Stack Ventures, Underdog Labs, Everywhere VC, Ludlow Ventures, Primordial, the Tweener Fund, the Hustle Fund, Deb Liu and Bong Koh participated in the round.  The latest funding brings Keebler Health’s total raise to $7.8 million. WHAT IT DOES  Keebler Health's platform...
Physician using a tablet
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:25 pm February 17, 2025
Abridge, a generative AI platform for clinical conversations, announced it raised a $250 million Series D investment. The round was co-led by Elad Gil and IVP, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, California Health Care Foundation, CapitalG, CVS Health Ventures, K. Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Redpoint Ventures, Spark Capital and...
Person addressing business meeting
By  Anthony Vecchione 03:43 pm February 14, 2025
Exero Medical, a company focused on early detection of post-operative complications using tissue healing data, has secured up to $12.7 million in funding to complete its FDA trial and launch its breakthrough-designated xBar system in the United States.  The round includes $10 million in upfront funding and additional milestone-based warrants, as well as $2.7 million in non-dilutive grants. The...
Executives in a meeting
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:36 pm February 10, 2025
Investment firm General Catalyst has announced the launch of the EU AI Champions Initiative, aimed at advancing Europe's AI momentum by coordinating efforts that include technology, industry, capital and policy. The initiative brings together more than 60 European companies ranging from startups to established incumbents. Backers of the initiative include pharma giant Siemens, and more than 20...