Quality Care

Seoul National University Hospital building
By  Adam Ang 08:01 pm April 8, 2025
Seoul National University Hospital has developed what could be the first medical large language model in South Korea. The project to develop the medical LLM began last year in March. The SNUH research team started by collecting 38 million clinical texts, including hospital admissions, outpatients, surgical, prescription, and nursing records, and de-identified and anonymised them to create a base...
An AI scribe runs in the background during a clinic consultation
By  Adam Ang 08:40 pm April 6, 2025
Asan Medical Center has developed a voice-based clinical documentation system powered by a large language model. HOW IT WORKS The system automatically records and analyses conversations – including identifying symptoms and classifying diseases – between and among staff and patients in near real-time. It also creates patients' medical records on the spot which are automatically saved to AMIS 3.0,...
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By  Jessica Hagen 04:24 pm April 3, 2025
Solace, a healthcare navigation platform, announced it scored $60 million in Series B funding. Menlo Ventures led the round with participation from existing investors Inspired Capital, Torch Capital and Craft Ventures, and new investor SignalFire.  WHAT IT DOES Solace matches patients with advocates who help them navigate their healthcare journey, whether through navigating a new diagnosis,...
Doctor holding a tablet and standing by a patient and another individual
By  Jessica Hagen 01:42 pm March 28, 2025
Ambient scribes are poised to be one of the fastest technology adoptions in the history of healthcare, according to a report by the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) on AI adoption in healthcare delivery systems. The report provides insights on navigating early adoption, tracking progress while using the technology and delivering impact with early use.   Ambient scribes utilize AI to...
Dozee's contactless vital signs monitoring and alert system
By  Adam Ang 02:07 am March 28, 2025
Dozee bags $8M for global expansion Dozee is seeking to enter new international markets following its latest fundraising.  The Indian medical device maker raised INR 71.5 crore ($8.3 million) from Temasek Trust's C3H and other investors.  "Beyond the [United States], we are exploring new international markets while broadening our product portfolio to cover the entire continuum of care — from...
Healthcare professional looking at a computer
By  Jessica Hagen 11:40 am March 27, 2025
  Editor's note: This article has been updated with a quote from Layer Health's cofounder and CEO. Layer Health, an AI-enabled chart review company, announced it secured $21 million in Series A funding.  Define Ventures led the round, with participation from GV (Google Ventures), Flare Capital Partners and MultiCare Capital Partners.  WHAT IT DOES Layer Health's AI platform is built on machine...
Healthcare provider in an office looking at a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 11:08 am March 25, 2025
Navina, an AI-enabled clinical intelligence platform for primary care providers, announced the close of a $55 million Series C funding round, bringing its total raise to $100 million.  Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the round, with participation from existing investors Vertex Ventures Israel, ALIVE and Grove Ventures. WHAT IT DOES Navina offers providers, accountable care...
The Chinese University of Hong Kong research team behind Dr PAI
By  Adam Ang 06:48 am March 24, 2025
A team of engineers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong has developed an AI-based blood pressure management system featuring a large language model from DeepSeek.  HOW IT WORKS The system called Dr PAI (personalised AI doctor) integrates wearable technology with DeepSeek to enable 24/7 monitoring and tracking of dynamic blood pressure changes and heart rate variability. It also collects...
A doctor reviewing a patient's record on a desktop computer
By  Adam Ang 08:27 pm March 23, 2025
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 and Coreline Soft officials in their partnership signing
By  Adam Ang 08:24 pm March 23, 2025
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...