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.

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...
Image of the XR platform
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:15 pm November 15, 2024
XRHealth, a company offering immersive therapeutics, announced it enhanced its offerings by launching an AI-powered extended reality (XR) platform that integrates AI technology within a comprehensive therapeutic system. The aim is to allow clinicians to transition between various therapeutic settings for optimized treatment outcomes. At the center of the platform is the AI generator space, which...
Healthcare provider sitting at a desk while talking to someone on the computer
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:44 pm November 15, 2024
Vesta Healthcare, a virtual care company for individuals receiving home care, and Medical Guardian, a company providing medical alert devices to seniors, has entered into a partnership to address chronic care management and remote patient monitoring for Medicaid and Medicare members. Medical Guardian’s cellular-connected vitals monitoring devices and personal emergency response systems (PERS)...
Healthcare practitioners administering injection to patient
By  Anthony Vecchione 11:58 am November 14, 2024
HealthTap, a virtual primary care provider, is partnering with AeroFlow, a company that delivers medical products and services, to enter the durable medical equipment market (DME), allowing patients to more easily access primary care and DME services. HealthTap provides virtual primary care, including mental health, urgent care, sexual health and wellness, and lifestyle services. Consumers can...