Jessica Hagen

Jessica Hagen

Jessica Hagen is the Executive Editor of MobiHealthNews. She covers the growth of digital health, including the medical extended reality (XR) industry, and reports in-depth on the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. As a hobby, Jessica co-hosts a podcast with Dr. Kim Bullock, a medical XR pioneer at Stanford University, about immersive technology use in psychiatric care. She received a bachelor's degree in English with a minor in Journalism from California State University, Northridge.

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By  Jessica Hagen 02:38 pm October 17, 2024
Google announced it is licensing its AI model focused on detecting diabetic retinopathy to partners in Thailand and India, two countries the tech giant says have a shortage of eye specialists.  Google Research teams partnered with foundational research partners Aravind Eye Hospital in India and Rajavithi Hospital in Thailand nearly a decade ago to research whether AI could be used to help reduce...
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By  Jessica Hagen 10:54 am October 16, 2024
Oshi Health, a digital gastrointestinal health company, announced it scored $60 million in Series C funding in a round led by Oak HC/FT.  The round also included existing investors CVS Health Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, Takeda Digital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and First Cressey Ventures.  WHAT IT DOES Oshi Health provides patients with gastrointestinal issues with virtual access...
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By  Jessica Hagen 11:57 am October 15, 2024
Alchemy, a company that helps develop and scale in-house pharmacy programs focused on HIV and Hepatitis C (HCV) patient populations, announced it closed $31 million in seed financing led by Andreessen Horowitz ("a16z") Bio + Health. Professional basketball player turned investor Earvin "Magic" Johnson participated in the round alongside Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, Banc of California and...
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By  Jessica Hagen 08:00 am October 15, 2024
MDisrupt, a marketplace for healthcare technology, has received a $1 million milestone-based investment from American Heart Association Ventures, the newly established venture firm that leads AHA's investments. Texas-based MDisrupt also entered into a service agreement with the American Heart Association to co-develop a platform to connect experts and innovators.  MDisrupt offers an AI-powered...
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By  Jessica Hagen 10:25 pm October 11, 2024
Glooko, the maker of a digital platform for managing diabetes and other chronic diseases, has secured $100 million in Series F funding and announced Mike Alvarez as the company's newly appointed CEO. Georgian led the round with participation from Canaan, Health Catalyst Capital, and other investors and business partners.  Alvarez formerly held the CEO role at Qardio, a remote patient monitoring...
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By  Jessica Hagen 03:50 pm October 10, 2024
RadiantGraph, a company that uses machine learning and AI to drive consumer engagement for healthcare, announced it raised $11 million in Series A funding just weeks after releasing news of launching integration capabilities with Amazon Web Service (AWS), Google Cloud platform, Snowflake and Databricks. M13 led the Series A round with participation from XYZ Ventures and True Ventures.  WHAT IT...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:44 pm October 10, 2024
Suki, maker of an AI-backed healthcare voice tool, announced it raised $70 million in Series D funding, bringing its total raise to $165 million. Hedosophia led the round, with additional investment from Venrock and participation by existing investors Flare Capital, March Capital, inHealth Ventures and Breyer Capital. WHAT IT DOES Suki's offerings include Suki Assistant, an AI-enabled voice tool...
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By  Jessica Hagen 01:05 pm October 9, 2024
MARAbio Systems, a tech-enabled precision immunology company, has received $19 million in Series A financing led by MAK Capital One. MAK Capital's Michael A. Kaufman and Craig Nemiroff will join MARAbio's board of directors. The company has developed a proprietary blood test to detect, treat and prevent Maternal Autoantibody Related Autism (MARA), a biological subtype of autism identifiable by a...
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By  Jessica Hagen 05:20 pm October 8, 2024
New York-based mental health technology company Resilience Lab has acquired online psychiatric medication management platform Options MD, which will allow Resilience to offer integrated prescription management and psychotherapy services for moderate to severe mental illness.  Resilience Lab is an online mental healthcare platform that connects patients with therapists who specialize in depression...
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By  Jessica Hagen 02:38 pm October 7, 2024
Healthcare-focused data analytics company Glassbeam has signed an agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) program to enhance VA real-time data and predictive analytics capabilities. HTM and Glassbeam engineers will work together utilizing Glassbeam's Service Analytics offering to connect systems, gather log data and create predictive signatures. ...