Alcidion unveils genAI apps
ASX-listed health IT provider Alcidion has announced new generative AI-based solutions developed in collaboration with Google Cloud.
Alcidion has utilised Google Cloud's Gemini on Vertex AI to develop a new AI-powered scribe and patient record summary application.
Based on a media release, the new scribe feature can capture and transcribe dialogue into the Noting...
Vuno invests $2M, sells lung AI in Japan to rival
Vuno has invested in and sold its lung disease diagnosis AI technology in Japan to its rival Korean company Coreline Soft.
The two companies recently entered into a strategic partnership to jointly raise their competitiveness in the growing global medical imaging AI segment.
Vuno invested 3.4 billion won ($2.3 million) in Coreline Soft, to which...
Foundation models with the ability to process and generate multi-modal data have transformed AI’s role in medicine. Nevertheless, researchers discovered that a major limitation of their reliability is hallucinations, where inaccurate or fabricated information can impact clinical decisions and patient safety, according to a study published in medRxiv.
In the study, researchers defined a medical...
Health-tracking ring maker Oura announced today the appointment of Dr. Ricky Bloomfield as its first chief medical officer. Prior to this, he served as clinical and health informatics lead at Apple Health, where he oversaw the launch of several features, including Apple's Health Records on the iPhone.
Dr. Bloomfield spoke with MobiHealthNews about his new role, where he will lead the expansion...
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...
EpiWatch, the Apple Watch-based epilepsy management company spun out from Johns Hopkins, announced it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its continuous seizure monitor platform that utilizes the popular wearable to detect and alert for tonic-clonic seizures.
Tonic-clonic seizures, or grand mal seizures, are a type of seizure that affects the whole brain and can cause violent muscle contractions...
Implantation of a brain-computer interface (BCI) into tetraplegic participants allowed for consistent control of a robotic arm and hand for reaching and grasping, according to a study performed at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and published in Cell.
Tetraplegia, or quadriplegia, is the paralysis or loss of sensation or function in the cervical area of the spine that affects...
Pediatric health system Connecticut Children's is expanding its partnership with Xerox by introducing an AI-powered offering aimed at streamlining care delivery while improving patient outcomes.
Hartford-based Connecticut Children's is utilizing AI to allow emergency department nurses to prepare more effectively for procedures and use predictive analytics to reduce heart-associated risks in...
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) and Google Health launched a free online course for medical professionals, researchers, administrators and innovators to learn the fundamentals of generative AI, large language models (LLMs) and the technologies' use cases in healthcare.
The Generative AI for Healthcare course gives stakeholders an understanding of LLMs and their applications in healthcare....
Tech-enabled drug discovery company Insilico Medicine secured $110 million in an oversubscribed Series E funding round.
A large equity fund of Value Partners Group, an asset management firm in Asia, and new and existing investors participated in the round.
WHAT IT DOES
Massachusetts-based Insilico's proprietary generative AI platform, Pharma.AI, utilizes biology, clinical medicine, scientific...
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