Life Sciences

Comnunity farm
By  Anthony Vecchione 12:42 pm March 18, 2025
Tech-enabled food delivery company FarmboxRx launched Drivers Health (DH), a comprehensive social needs platform aimed at addressing healthcare members' continuum of social needs. DH centers on a tailored, omnichannel experience that allows members to participate with their covered benefits and continue their overall well-being while at the same time passing critical data insights back to their...
Person undergoing an MRI
By  Anthony Vecchione 12:33 pm March 18, 2025
Health technology company Hyperfine is collaborating with Silicon Valley giant NVIDIA to leverage NVIDIA's AI expertise and rapid computing to strengthen Hyperfine's portable imaging technology, the Swoop system. AI-powered portable magnetic resonance (MR) technology is used at the point of care. The aim is to deal with critical healthcare gaps that conventional MRI systems cannot fill. The Swoop...
Family communicating with healthcare professional via telehealth
By  Anthony Vecchione 12:56 pm March 14, 2025
MEDITECH, an EHR company, is joining forces with Missouri-based Citizens Memorial Hospital and Unite Us, a social care platform, to integrate MEDITECH's Expanse EHR offering with Unite Us' closed-loop referral system. The aim of the collaboration is to help identify and deal with Unite Us' patient populations' social care requirements.   By utilizing the Unite Us platform, clinical providers at...
Executives in a conference
By  Anthony Vecchione 12:25 pm March 14, 2025
Motivity, a clinical SaaS platform for applied behavior analysis (ABA) providers, secured $27 million from Five Elms Capital.  WHAT IT DOES Motivity provides clinical software for behavioral health providers who treat children with autism. It offers an advanced platform for ABA therapy, which is based on learning and behavior. ABA involves various techniques, such as positive reinforcement and...
Scientist in a laboratory
By  Jessica Hagen 01:14 pm March 13, 2025
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...
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...
Photo of Gina Galanou Luchen, Scott Anderson
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:33 pm March 12, 2025
At its June 2024 meeting, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) House of Delegates approved the ASHP policy the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Pharmacy Practice. The policy recognizes the potential for AI to improve patient care, acknowledges the risks and ethical challenges associated with the use of AI in healthcare settings, and supports the adoption of policies and...
Healthcare professional with a tablet
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:39 pm March 11, 2025
Virtual care company Teladoc Health announced the expansion of its connected care partnerships across new categories, including digestive health, centers of excellence, fertility and family building.  The company announced technology integrations aimed at helping Teladoc Health’s care providers and coaches view members’ eligibility for these services and refer them to appropriate partner programs...
Headshot of Lavonia Thomas
By  Anthony Vecchione 04:00 pm March 10, 2025
LAS VEGAS - Lavonia Thomas, nursing informatics officer at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, sat down with MobiHealthNews at the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas last week to discuss how nurses are implementing digital tools that help improve patient care.  MobiHealthNews: Why is stewarding the integration of new technology via change management...
Couple, pregnant woman
By  Anthony Vecchione 03:40 pm March 10, 2025
Health technology company Royal Philips is joining forces with Ingeborg Initiatives, a maternal health company, to provide expectant parents in Arkansas with access to the Philips Avent Pregnancy+ app with personalized information provided by the state and tools to increase access to care. The aim of the partnership is to enhance health literacy and encourage users to embrace healthy habits. ...