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Bluespine, an AI-driven claims cost reduction platform for self-insured employers, announced it raised $7.2 million in seed funding.
The round was led by Team8 with participation from strategic partners.
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Bluespine is an AI-driven claims cost reduction platform that aims to help self-insured employers reduce annual healthcare spending while mitigating financial and legal risks around...
Global healthcare AI company Ubie announced its AI-enabled symptom tracker will be integrated into PatientsLikeMe's patient engagement and health management platform to support patients from the first sign of symptoms through the treatment journey.
Ubie offers a free AI-powered symptom checker trained on clinical research papers. The platform is intended to accelerate disease detection and,...
Cardinal Health entered into a definitive agreement with GI Alliance (GIA) and Advanced Diabetes Supply Group (ADSG) with the aim of advancing its presence in the multispecialty GI and at-home diabetes spaces.
The company will acquire a majority stake in GIA for $2.8 billion giving it 71% ownership. For its part, GIA will operate as a platform within Cardinal Health's pharmaceutical and specialty...
The Society of General Internal Medicine released a position statement on generative AI use in healthcare, highlighting the need for clinicians and technologists to partner to enhance genAI decision-making and for healthcare organizations to use the technology but, avoid "the urge to rapidly displace the human clinical workforce with generative AI."
The Society says clinicians must remain...
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a quote from Rula.
Rula announced that its network of more than 10,000 mental health providers will now be available to Amazon customers through Amazon's Health Conditions Programs.
Rula connects patients with mental healthcare professionals and offers extensive support during multiple steps of a patient's mental health experience.
The digital...
Digital biology company Optic is collaborating with early-stage oncology therapeutics venture, Vindur Tx, to use Optics proprietary generative AI platform to find novel highly selective kinase inhibitors and develop more effective cancer treatments.
Vindur Tx agreed to pay Optic as much as $17.5 million for its proprietary technology to search for new ways of addressing what the company called...
Founder and former CEO of the London-based multinational digital health giant Babylon, Ali Parsa, announced the launch of his new company, Quadrivia AI, which will offer clinicians an AI assistant to help with administrative and clinical tasks.
Quadrivia's offering, Qu, is an AI-enabled personal clinical assistant available in multiple languages designed to support clinicians with various tasks...
Precision Neuroscience, a brain-computer interface company that connects AI with human intelligence, has scored $93 million in a planned $100 million funding round, with the deal valuing the startup at around $500 million, according to a Bloomberg report that attributes the information to "a person familiar with the situation."
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Private company Precision Neuroscience offers a brain...
GE HealthCare and DeepHealth, a subsidiary of RadNet, announced they are collaborating on new AI imaging technology to further innovation, commercialization and adoption of AI in imaging.
The companies will codevelop SmartTechnology, solutions that employ the power of AI to tackle key obstacles across the imaging value chain, such as helping increase the efficiency of imaging interpretation and...
Life sciences-focused technology company MGI Tech announced a commercial partnership with Human Cell Atlas, a global consortium working to map every cell type in the human body, to advance worldwide human cell mapping.
MGI Tech is a Chinese biotechnology company that offers a high-throughput genome-sequencing machine, genetic sequencers, and other tools and technologies that can be applied to...
