Doctors Without Borders

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By  Emily Olsen 01:31 pm September 27, 2021
Women First Digital, which provides online sexual and reproductive health resources, has partnered with Doctors Without Borders to launch a video series to guide patients through a medication abortion.  The series, which is available in 27 languages, aims to answer questions such as how abortion pills work, what to expect when undergoing a medication abortion and what signs to look for in case of...
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By  Adam Ang 02:20 am September 24, 2021
HeartLab raises $2M to bring AI heart software to US New Zealand startup HeartLab has bagged NZ$3.5 million ($2.4 million) from a funding round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Founders Fund. The company seeks to deploy its fresh funds to further penetrate the $1.5 billion AI tools market in the US with its AI-powered heart scanning and reporting platform called Pulse. It also plans to...
By  Heather Mack 03:26 pm May 12, 2017
Virtual medical assistant company Sensely is collaborating with the Mayo Clinic to ascertain how to leverage patient engagement and chronic disease monitoring technology. The partnership will blend the Mayo Clinic’s triage algorithms and clinical expertise with Sensely’s patient engagement platform in hopes of assessing and predicting which resources can be best used at the right time to help...
By  Heather Mack 05:38 pm May 9, 2017
International medical organization Doctors Without Borders (Médecins sans Frontières, or MSF) is looking to evaluate the use of an app to diagnose and manage respiratory disease in rural, low-income settings. An unofficial collaboration is already in the works with Australian digital health company ResApp, whom MSF has indicated they are interested in working with in a clinical study. ResApp,...