Anthony Vecchione

Anthony Vecchione

Anthony Vecchione is the Editor of MobiHealthNews. He covers artificial intelligence, digital health investments, mergers & acquisitions and more. Anthony has extensive experience covering the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, healthcare technology, and community and health system pharmacies. He received awards from The Institute of Safe Medication Practices for a series of articles on medication errors in hospitals and from the New Jersey Mental Health Institute for reporting on mental health and addiction in the workplace.

Healthcare practitioner review mammogram results
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:46 pm November 26, 2024
GE HealthCare unveiled Pristina Via, a mammography system aimed at enhancing the screening experience for technologists and patients. Pristina Via gives mammography technologists a suite of tools that balance the demands of diagnostic accuracy and fast-moving workflows to expedite more patient-centered breast care.  As part of the Senographe Pristina platform, Pristina Via brings features to help...
Person holding a tablet in one hand and a prescription bottle in the other
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:58 pm November 25, 2024
Allurion Technologies, a weight-loss platform, launched AllurionMeds to give patients GLP-1 medications for weight loss combined with its AI-enabled Coach Iris platform. The company aims to advance long-term weight maintenance through virtual access to dieticians and a connected smart scale that measures not just weight, but also muscle and bone mass. Along with Coach Iris, patients will have...
Five people standing by each other
By  Anthony Vecchione 08:00 am November 25, 2024
PatientsLikeMe (PLM), a patient-engagement and activation platform, is announcing the launch of Ella, an AI assistant to help women manage their health, powered by generative AI platform Ema. PatientsLikeMe is a personalized health network with a patient support community that allows patients to learn from each other's lived experiences. Users can also access education, tools and services to...
Person talking to a telehealth provider
By  Anthony Vecchione 05:10 pm November 22, 2024
Rightway, a healthcare navigation and pharmacy benefits platform, announced a partnership with Curai Health, an AI-powered virtual clinic, to provide Rightway's members access to Curai's virtual care offerings. Curai Health offers personalized primary care providers and urgent care services, referral management and network navigation, care programs and condition-management services, clinical...
Executives in a conference
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:05 pm November 22, 2024
Converge Bio has raised $5.5 million in seed funding led by TLV Partners. WHAT IT DOES Converge Bio is a generative AI hub for Biotech and Pharma that allows the accelerated discovery and development of drugs that use large language models (LLMs).  The platform supplies a library of foundational models across all biological languages that can be amplified and adjusted for specific tasks with...
Clinicians reviewing data on a laptop
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:33 pm November 21, 2024
ThoroughCare, a digital care coordination company, closed a $5 million Series A funding round led by Empactful Capital.  WHAT IT DOES ThoroughCare’s platform aims to address inefficiencies and fragmentation in patient care, which the company says can result in inconsistent patient engagement, poor outcomes and revenue loss.  The company’s purpose-built solution provides support to a broad range...
Clinicians reviewing patient record
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:14 pm November 21, 2024
CareMessage, a patient activation platform for underserved individuals, launched AI Assistant, a tool aimed at interpreting and analyzing patient responses into structured data and more ably finding responses that address patient needs, including food insecurity or transportation barriers.  Besides removing critical barriers to patient communication, CareMessage's AI may also save customers money...
Healthcare professionals consulting with a patient
By  Anthony Vecchione 03:03 pm November 19, 2024
Citizen Health, a company that helps patients oversee rare and complex health conditions, announced it raised $14.5 million in seed funding. Transformation Capital led the round with participation from Wavemaker 360 and prominent angel investors.  The funding was bolstered by a strategic program investment and partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. WHAT IT DOES Citizen Health helps...
Clinical reviewing medical records
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:02 pm November 19, 2024
DigitalOwl, a company that uses natural language processing to help analyze and summarize EHRs, announced it is collaborating with ExamOne, a Quest Diagnostics company, to improve efficiency of record retrieval and analysis through DigitalOwl’s View product.  ExamOne provides risk-assessment tools for the life insurance industry with a suite of services aimed at streamlining the underwriting...
Scientist in a laboratory
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:46 pm November 18, 2024
Pharmaceutical powerhouse Lilly Digital Health and Lilly Centre for Clinical Pharmacology (LCCP), a wholly owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly and Company, announced the creation of a SGD$42 million digital health innovation hub in Singapore. The aim of the hub is to increase the research and development of AI-powered digital health technologies, and is part of a five-year plan, supported by the...