GE HealthCare announced it acquired the remaining 50% stake in Nihon Medi-Physics (NMP) from Sumitomo Chemical, giving it full ownership of NMP.
GE HealthCare has had a 50% stake in NMP since acquiring Amersham plc in 2004 for $9.5 billion. Amersham specialized in medical imaging agents and life sciences.
In a statement, NMP said it can now expand on its expertise developing and manufacturing...
Cofactor AI, a company that helps hospitals appeal claims denials, announced it raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Drive Capital.
WHAT IT DOES
Cofactor AI’s platform, Cofactor Denial Suite, combines with EHR systems and clearinghouses and immediately locates the exact contextual information required to generate successful appeals.
Employing its proprietary medical-native foundation...
Practice Better, a practice management platform for health and wellness practitioners, announced it raised $13 million in growth capital funded by CIBC Innovation Banking.
The funding comes one year after Practice Better scored a $27 million growth investment led by Five Elms Capital.
WHAT IT DOES
Practice Better provides a suite of tools that integrate scheduling, telehealth, client engagement...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
