Pennsylvania-based ThoroughCare, a digital care coordination company, has integrated into Canadian health tech company PointClickCare's marketplace, allowing long-term and post-acute care PointClickCare providers to access ThoroughCare's offerings in one place.
ThoroughCare offers a platform aimed at addressing inefficiencies and fragmentation in patient care, which the company says can result...
John Hancock announced it is offering the newest Apple Watch models to eligible life insurance customers who participate in its Vitality Program, which rewards customers for engaging in activities that promote a healthy lifestyle.
Vitality PLUS customers who take part in the Apple Watch program are required to make an initial payment of $25 plus tax and pay the remaining balance monthly over two...
Medical device company PhotoniCare announced it secured $4.6 million in Series B funding. The financing is the first close in an expected $9 million funding round.
The company also announced the formation of a manufacturing partnership with Gentex Corporation for its first-in-class, FDA-cleared OtoSight Middle Ear Scope.
It also finalized the relocation of its headquarters from Champaign,...
Zipline, an instant logistics and delivery company, and the Elton John AIDS Foundation are expanding their partnership to deliver HIV prevention and treatment to youth in Nigeria.
The partnership will leverage Zipline's drone-delivery technology to address Nigeria's supply chain challenges, such as access to antiretroviral therapy, which is a medicine that prevents people who are HIV positive...
Wearables-maker Movano Health announced it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its health-monitoring wearable, EvieMED Ring.
EvieMED Ring is a smart ring that combines medical and wellness metrics, including blood oxygen levels, heart rate and metrics related to energy, logging of mood, sleep and activity.
The publicly traded company boasts that receiving FDA clearance will allow it to pursue...
South Korean medical imaging AI company Neurophet has received second clearance for its brain image analysis software in the United States.
It obtained another 510(k) from the US Food and Drug Administration for the latest functionality on Neurophet Aqua that analyses multiple sclerosis and white matter hyperintensities using T2-FLAIR images.
The brain MRI scan-based analysis software, which...
Safety-focused large language model company Hippocratic AI has been issued its first patent by the U.S. Patent Office, which includes the company's LLM innovations incorporated into its safety-focused LLM built with a constellation architecture dubbed Polaris.
Hippocratic AI's generative AI solution focuses on nondiagnostic healthcare tasks such as medication onboarding and monthly reconciliation...
Elon Musk's brain-computer interface implant startup Neuralink announced on X that it received approval to launch a new feasibility study, CONVOY, which will test the use of its wireless brain-computer interface (BCI), or N1 implant, to control an investigational assistive robotic arm.
"This is an important first step towards restoring not only digital freedom, but also physical freedom. More...
Google has introduced Health AI Developer Foundations (HAI-DEF), a public resource for healthcare developers that provides open-weight models to help them build healthcare applications, initially focused on dermatology, radiology and pathology.
Open-weight AI models are a type of black box AI technology that allows developers to apply and fine-tune a model for specific tasks, allowing them to...
Editor's note: This article has been updated with clarifying comments from Dexcom.
Glucose-monitoring specialist Dexcom made several announcements this year, including receiving FDA clearance for its over-the-counter continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) solution Stelo, G7's expanded capabilities to connect directly to the Apple Watch and, most recently, its $75 million investment in and strategic...
