Federal agencies like the FDA and HHS have established safety programs to ensure safe and trustworthy artificial intelligence use in various sectors, including healthcare.
Digital health executives relayed their recommendations, advice, and suggestions for regulators configuring rules around AI use in healthcare to MobiHealthNews, including flagging AI-generated content and building off existing...
Digital health executives predict funding in 2024 will increase for companies with platforms proven helpful for healthcare providers and patients, while those not showing value will be forced to dissolve.
Leaders also relayed to MobiHealthNews that mergers and acquisitions will be prominent in the digital health industry, and genAI companies may take center stage when garnering funding. ...
Leaders in the digital health space relayed to MobiHealthNews what stood out to them in 2023 as the year draws to an end.
Many noted the meteoric rise of genAI in 2023 and expectations of growing adoption of the technology in 2024, emphasizing the importance of treading carefully as the tech is further implemented. Other stakeholders pinpointed bankruptcies and mergers and acquisitions as being...
Digital health content and services provider WebMD announced it has acquired technology and data analytics company Mercury Healthcare from private equity firm Vestar Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum.
Through the deal, Mercury will join WebMD Provider, the company’s business focused on consumer-physician engagement and clinical education. Mercury's analytics solutions are geared towards...
Health information site WebMD is looking into the patient education space with its acquisition of Wellness Network for an undisclosed sum.
Wellness Network creates educational resources and engagement tools for patients. The company works with hospitals and health systems, insurance companies, life science, public health agencies, health tech companies and others.
Its services include a library...
This morning WebMD, an online health information tool, announced its plans to acquire ADDitude, a platform focused on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) resources and information for an undisclosed sum.
The site offers resources regarding symptoms and tests, treatments, educational plans and coping with the condition as an adult. Users are also able to tap into webinars, blogs, and...
A new peer-reviewed study testing the coverage, accuracy and safety of eight online symptom assessment apps has found that the performance of apps varies widely, with only a handful performing close to the levels of human general practitioners (GPs).
Published today in BMJ Open, the study is the first of its kind to be published since 2015 and was conducted by a team of doctors and scientists led...
Direct-to-consumer virtual health company Ro launched a new health information platform dubbed Health Guide.
Currently the platform covers sexual health, hair loss, weight management, diabetes, and men’s health. However, a representative from the company said that in the future, the plan is to expand the offerings to not only cater to male users, and to include more conditions.
The company,...
A new survey from Harmony Healthcare IT shows that millennials in large numbers are going online rather than to the doctor when they need medical advice.
While only 48% of those surveyed (2,013 Americans aged 23 to 38 years) said they trust online resources to accurately diagnose symptoms, 73% admitted to going online for medical advice rather than seeing a doctor.
WebMD was the overwhelming...
WebMD’s consumer STD lab tests came under fire this week after Responsible Telemedicine, a nonprofit that bills itself as an "industry watchdog," filed a lawsuit suing the company for mislabeling the tests as FDA approved.
The suit alleges that only three of the nine STD tests sold by WebMD have “undergone the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) premarket approval process through...
