$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...
A virtual reality training program has been developed to help paramedics and ambulance officers prepare for unplanned out-of-hospital births.
The training program called NEONATE features a 30 to 40-minute VR simulation of neonatal care scenarios during birth emergencies. These include temperature management, respiratory distress, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and one-minute Apgar score...
2024 saw the rise of many generative AI applications in various industries, including healthcare, driving work and operational efficiencies like never before.
It is also one of the technology solutions that came out of an accelerator programme by the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and 22Health Ventures. Interestingly, the clinical AI copilot might have been...
Aya Healthcare, a talent software and staffing company, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire tech-enabled healthcare staffing company Cross Country Healthcare for $18.61 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at around $615 million.
Calif.-based Aya Healthcare offers a healthcare-focused digital staffing platform that includes travel nursing and allied health, per diem staff,...
Wellth, a digital health startup that offers small financial rewards for completing health-related tasks, recently announced the appointment of former Sanford Health Plan CEO John Snyder as its new chief operating officer.
Snyder sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss how his experience will influence his decisions around overseeing company operations and where and how he thinks Wellth can...
Population health technology company Color Health announced the appointment of Dr. Rebecca Miksad as chief medical officer and Josh Sturm as chief revenue officer.
Miksad is a medical oncologist and head of Boston University School of Medicine's High Risk Cancer Genetics Clinic and formerly held the position of senior medical director at oncology-focused digital health company Flatiron Health. ...
Thatch, an employer-focused health benefits platform, announced it secured $38 million in a Series A funding round led by General Catalyst and Index Ventures.
New investors SemperVirens and the General Partnership participated in the round, as did existing investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Avid Ventures.
WHAT IT DOES
Thatch offers employers ICHRA benefits plans that allow them to set a...
Rural hybrid care provider Homeward announced the appointment of its first chief medical officer, Dr. Greg Burrell, a practicing internal medicine physician.
Burrell will oversee the company's clinical and navigation strategy across quality assurance and markets, work to enhance the member experience, and support healthcare systems.
He formerly served as chief medical officer at employer health-...
Community health centres, or puskesmas, in the Indonesian province of West Java, south of capital Jakarta, will leverage generative AI to augment their capabilities to address critical health issues.
The Sumedang regency recently tied up with Singaporean doctors' networking platform Docquity to develop and launch the genAI-powered virtual assistant called TehAI.
HOW IT WORKS
TehAI reportedly...
Spring Health, which offers AI-enabled digital mental healthcare and navigation services, raised $100 million in a Series E funding round, raising its valuation to $3.3 billion.
Generation Investment Management led the round, which included participation from existing investors RRE, William K. Warren Foundation, Northzone and Kinnevik.
WHAT IT DOES
The New York-based company works with employers...
