At a virtual event today, Apple unveiled its Apple Watch Series 10 with new health and fitness features and AirPods Pro 2 with hearing test and over-the-counter hearing aid capabilities.
Watch Series 10
Apple Watch Series 10 will include a new Sleep Apnea feature that uses the accelerometer to measure a new metric called Breathing Disturbances.
The Health App will provide users with insights...
Vesta Healthcare, a virtual care company for individuals receiving home care, closed a $65 million Series C round with new debt financing.
RA Capital Management led the round with participation from Chrysalis Ventures, Oak HC/FT, CareCentrix/Walgreens, Deerfield Management, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Nationwide, Lux Capital and Generator Ventures.
Horizon Technology Finance Corporation, a...
Baby technology company Owlet announced it is expanding its reach within Europe by extending access to its baby monitor Dream Sock in Greece, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria.
Dream Sock, which received FDA clearance last November and CE Mark certification in May, wraps around a baby's foot and gathers live health readings of infants 0-18 months who weigh 6-30...
Online behavioral healthcare company Talkspace announced it is joining forces with the Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) as the player advocates organization's exclusive mental health technology partner.
The aim is to give players, their families and support teams free, 24/7 access to Talkspace’s self-guided therapy app, Talkspace Go, and its virtual therapy offering at a discount....
Digital musculoskeletal care company Hinge Health and virtual care specialist Midi Health are teaming up to combine Hinge’s movement-based support with Midi's virtual care clinic to support women experiencing menopausal symptoms.
California-based Midi Health offers a network of nurse practitioners overseen by physicians and researchers to women 40 years and above going through perimenopause and...
Woebot Health, maker of an AI-powered mental health chatbot, announced it signed a three-year agreement with Ohio-based nonprofit pediatric healthcare system Akron Children's to provide pediatric mental health support to adolescents 13 to 17 years.
Woebot's nonprescription digital mental health tool includes content specific to teens, including media literacy, bullying in school settings, and...
Digital weight loss company Noom announced it is partnering with dance fitness company Zumba to offer Noom members access to Zumba fitness content and allow Zumba's dance instructors to become "Mindset Coaches" at Noom.
Noom's members will have access to Zumba's "exhilarating dance routines" and "targeted fitness sessions," along with motivational and engagement options to keep them focused on...
A research team at the Korean government-backed Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute in Daejeon, a city south of Seoul, has developed a predictive AI technology for screening mild cognitive impairment.
HOW IT WORKS
Developed by combining existing voice and text analysis models with a large language model, the integrated AI analyses recorded conversations of senior people to...
Period-tracking app Flo Health garnered more than $200 million in Series C funding from growth investor General Atlantic, bringing the women's health company to unicorn status, with more than $1 billion in valuation.
Tanzeen Syed, managing director and head of consumer internet and technology at General Atlantic, and Jessie Cai, principal at General Atlantic, will join Flo's board of directors...
A new mobile application in Singapore is taking an innovative approach to communications training for caregivers of people with dementia.
The Institute of Mental Health (IMH), a tertiary psychiatric care hospital under the National Healthcare Group in Singapore, has collaborated with Taggle, a connected digital health platform provider, to create the Play2Care app.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
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