Quality Care

Pharmacist giving a person an injection
By  Jessica Hagen 10:51 am May 1, 2025
Plenful, a workflow-automation platform for pharmacy and healthcare operations, has secured $50 million in Series B funding, bringing its total raise to $76 million.  Dahner cofounder Mitchell Rales and Arena Holdings co-led the round, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, TQ Ventures, Notable Capital, Susa/Kivu Ventures and other investors.  The company will use the funds for...
Person looking at a computer screen
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:07 pm April 29, 2025
Atropos Health, a company that translates real-world clinical data (RWD) into real-world evidence, announced a strategic partnership with Ontada, a McKesson business involved in community oncology. Ontada is connected to The US Oncology Network, a wholly owned subsidiary of McKesson, which delivers real-time data, insights and research on how cancer is treated in a community. The collaboration...
Three surgeons operating on a patient
By  Adam Ang 06:40 am April 29, 2025
A large language model-powered AI assistant developed in Hong Kong has demonstrated high accuracy in thyroid cancer staging and risk classification. A team of researchers from the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), the InnoHK Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine conducted the study which built what...
A cancer patient consulting with a doctor
By  Adam Ang 06:38 pm April 23, 2025
A program to screen women for cervical cancer using AI has been launched in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Community organisation Ho Chi Minh City Public Health Association (HPHA) partnered with listed Australian company TruScreen and its local distributor Gorton Health Services to run the community-based program, which aims to screen 260,000 women in the city over five years.  The partnership...
Two people in a clinical setting walking together
By  Jessica Hagen 01:11 pm April 22, 2025
California-based healthcare data and analytics company Reveleer has acquired Novillus, which offers a workflow platform for health plans.  Reveleer, formerly Health Data Vision, provides an AI-enabled platform for payers aimed at advancing value-based care. The company offers workflow, data and analytics tools for risk adjustment, quality improvement and member management. It also provides...
A doctor discussing findings with an older patient
By  Adam Ang 02:06 am April 18, 2025
$2M funding for carers of CALD people with dementia Independent non-profit National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) has received federal grant funding for its project enabling digital support for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people with dementia. It obtained A$2.9 million ($1.8 million) from the Medical Research Future Fund for its five-year project, which will trial the iSupport...
Doctor standing in a room and smiling
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:20 pm April 17, 2025
Digital cardiac health company Eko Health announced that clinicians in the UK can now purchase the company's CORE 500 Digital Stethoscope, Eko+ membership and accessories via Eko's website and Amazon UK. Eko helps healthcare professionals identify and monitor heart and lung disease with digital stethoscopes, patient and provider software, and AI-enabled analysis. The CORE 500 Digital Stethoscope...
Interface of Coreline Soft's lung cancer imaging AI software
By  Adam Ang 04:49 am April 17, 2025
Coreline Soft announces first China partnership South Korean medical AI company Coreline Soft has entered into its first partnership in China.  It signed a memorandum of understanding with Suhai Information Technology, which reportedly runs a network of medical institutions in China. Coreline Soft will tap into this network to collect clinical data, which will help tailor its AI software...
Patient in a hospital sitting on their bed
By  Jessica Hagen 01:27 pm April 16, 2025
hellocare.ai, which offers AI-enabled virtual care delivery for smart hospital rooms, has secured $47 million in an oversubscribed funding growth round.  HealthQuest Capital led the round with participation from several health systems and digital health investors, including UCHealth, Bon Secours Mercy Health, LRVHealth and OSF Ventures.  WHAT IT DOES The Florida-based company provides a virtual...
A baby's eyes
By  Adam Ang 07:19 pm April 13, 2025
Research from Japan has demonstrated the use of eye-tracking technology in the early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. Waseda University associate professor Mikimasa Omori set out to examine whether children with potential ASD would exhibit a preference for predictable movement – a behaviour indicative of the neurodevelopmental disorders – longer than typically developing children. FINDINGS...