Baby tech company Owlet has announced the launch of Owlet360, a subscription service where caregivers can access their infant's health and sleep data on the baby's development and health.
Owlet360 will provide analysis of a baby's health and sleep data as compared to other infants in the company's dataset, sleep patterns, the ability to watch and share video clips of a baby, temperature and...
Robin Cherry Glass, president at virtual care company Included Health, sat down with MobiHealthNews at the company's office in San Francisco outside the JPM Healthcare Conference to discuss its initiatives in specialty care and beyond and its participation in JPM.
MobiHealthNews: How has Included Health participated in the JPM Healthcare Conference?
Robin Cherry Glass: Our CEO, Owen Tripp, spoke...
Hong Kong-based startup PanopticAI has obtained regulatory approval in the United States for its contactless pulse rate measuring application.
It received the US Food and Drug Administration's 510(k) clearance for the PanopticAI Vital Signs app on iOS devices.
Based on PanopticAI's proprietary remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) algorithms, the app transforms the cameras of iOS devices into...
Virtual women's healthcare platform Allara Health scored $26 million in Series B funding, bringing its total raise to $38.5 million.
Index Ventures led the round with participation from existing investor GV (Google Ventures).
WHAT IT DOES
Allara Health offers a virtual care platform for women battling chronic hormonal conditions, such as endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and...
Absci, a data-first generative AI drug-creation company, is partnering with AMD, a semiconductor company, to deploy AMD Instinct accelerators and ROCm software to power vital AI drug-discovery workloads, as well as Absci's advanced De Novo antibody-design models.
In addition, AMD is making a $20 million investment in Absci. The investment will be structured as a private investment in public...
On his first day in office of his second term, President Donald Trump revoked Joe Biden's 2023 executive order, which aimed to establish standards for the safe, secure and trustworthy development of AI across various sectors, including healthcare.
Among its many provisions, Biden's order directed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a safety program "to help ensure...
Cornerstone Robotics bags $70M Series C funding
Surgical robotics maker Cornerstone Robotics from Hong Kong has raised over $70 million in a Series C funding round led by EQT. It also received additional investment from the Hong Kong government's Innovation and Technology Venture Fund.
The company, established in 2019, will use its fresh funds to expand into key global markets in Europe and...
In November 2021, California-based virtual reality-therapeutic company AppliedVR became the first medical extended reality (XR) company to be granted FDA De Novo clearance for a virtual reality healthcare product.
AppliedVR's RelieVRx (formerly EaseVRx) is a fully immersive VR experience designed to help individuals manage chronic low back pain and provide a non-pharmacologic option for pain...
South Korean wearable robot heads to US
WIRobotics, a robotics manufacturer from South Korea, is set to launch its wearable gait assistance robot in the United States.
Called WIM (We Innovate Mobility), the wearable exoskeleton, launched last year, features different modes: assist, resist, hike, and slow walk. It comes with a companion mobile application that provides analysis of gait, including...
Hippocratic AI, a generative AI company developing safety-focused large language models for healthcare, announced it closed a $141 million Series B round, bringing its valuation to $1.64 billion.
Kleiner Perkins, the venerated VC firm that backed Amazon, Genentech and Google, led the round. Existing investors SV Angel, Premji, General Catalyst, a16z, NVIDIA, Universal Health Services and...
