A new mental health diary app developed in South Korea leverages generative AI to early screen depression while securing sensitive user data.
HOW IT WORKS
Doctorpresso came up with a mobile app called REDI that analyses a user's speech patterns and provides near real-time insights into their mental state.
Through AI, the app analyses four voice characteristics: average pitch, pitch variability...
Indonesian DNA data firm Asa Ren scores $8M funding
Asa Ren, one of the first DNA data companies in Indonesia, has raised $8.15 million in a funding round joined by Kejora Capital and Silicon Valley-based investors Top Harvest Capital and Marcy Venture Partners. Northstar Ventures, Naya Capital, PT Diagnos Laboratorium Utama Tbk and other angel investors also participated in the round.
The...
A research team led by engineers and neurologists at RMIT University has come up with a mobile app that uses a person's voice to screen for Parkinson's disease and severe COVID-19.
HOW IT WORKS
The app uses AI to analyse the changes in a person's voice in just 10 seconds. The research gathered voice recordings of people with Parkinson's and a control group saying three sounds – A, O, and M,...
This morning Suki, an artificial intelligence-backed healthcare voice tool, announced a $55 million Series C funding round. March Capital led the funding round with participation from Philips Ventures and previous investors Venrock, Flare Capital and inHealth Ventures.
This news comes more than two years after the company closed a $20 million Series C funding round led by Flare Capital Partners...
Medical communication company Vocera is teaming up with Amazon to build a new skill on Alexa aimed at making patients’ hospital experience more connected.
The new skill will be focused on keeping patients and caregivers connected to their clinical team. Patients will also be able to use the combined technology to ask questions about their hospital stay. Tapping into an Amazon Echo in their room...
Lunit to demonstrate its latest AI solutions for chest and mammography exams
South Korean medical AI startup Lunit is set to unveil its latest AI solutions for digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and chest CT by the end of the month at the 107th Scientific Assembly of the Radiological Society of North America.
Chest CT and mammography are examinations where doctors detect abnormalities indicative...
