PatientsLikeMe (PLM), a patient-engagement and activation platform, is announcing the launch of Ella, an AI assistant to help women manage their health, powered by generative AI platform Ema.
PatientsLikeMe is a personalized health network with a patient support community that allows patients to learn from each other's lived experiences. Users can also access education, tools and services to...
Telemedicine company Thirty Madison has partnered with behavioral telehealth company Talkspace to bring mental health offerings to Thirty Mason’s Nurx and Cove users and allow Talkspace users to access migraine treatment and women's healthcare.
Talkspace will now serve as the therapy partner for Nurx, which specializes in comprehensive care for women’s dermatology, reproductive health and sexual...
Israel-based Scopio Labs announced the FDA granted De Novo clearance for its Full-Field Bone Marrow Aspirate (FF-BMA) software that provides AI-enabled decision support tools for bone marrow analysis.
The FF-BMA application allows for bone marrow aspirate analysis. It combines full-field imaging and an AI-powered decision support system that allows hematopathologists to analyze bone marrow...
This morning Tia, a tech enabled women’s health company, closed its Series A round raking in $24.27 million in new capital. Threshold Venture’s Emily Melton led the round with participation from Define Ventures, ACME, Torch Capital, John Doerr, Homebrew and Compound.
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Tia follows a hybrid model of care – it offers both brick-and-mortar services and virtual tools to patients. The New...
Even more ECG. Electronics hardware company Asus pulled back the curtain on its latest health and fitness smartwatch today at IFA 2019 in Berlin. Engadget, TechRadar and others report that the VivoWatch SP includes a built-in ECG sensor alongside a PPG sensor, GPS tracking, an altimeter and roughly 14 days of battery life. The company is aiming for worldwide availability before the end of the...
Mumbai-India headquartered digital health start-up Vivant recently launched ‘Nyra’, a simple mobile application that can be used by women to track their period, fertility, ovulation, mood, lifestyle and physical activity.
Based on the health information collected, the app provides women with personalised feminine health, hygiene and fertility advice to help manage their wellbeing. In addition to...
Natural Cycles, an app that bills itself as a contraceptive and fertility tracker, has again found itself the target of regulatory investigation due to claims made in its advertisements.
According to the Guardian, the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has kicked off a formal investigation into the Swedish company after receiving three complaints regarding the app and its paid advertising on...
Natural Cycles, the first app to be CE-certified as a contraceptive in Europe, raised $30 million in a round led by EQT Ventures. Existing investors Sunstone, E-ventures, and Bonnier Growth Media also participated, bringing the company’s total funding to around $38 million.
“Our algorithm is developed and optimized for use in contraception and it returns a red or a green day to the user, so the...
A new iPhone app launched for free by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) looks not only to bring convenient postpartum depression (PPD) screening to more expecting and postpartum women, but also looks to redefine the gold standard for post-partum depression diagnosis.
Developed by researchers from MGH’s Ammon-Pinizzotto Center for Women’s Mental Health, the MGH Perinatal Depression Scale (...
Women’s health app developer Tia announced that it has received $2.5 million in seed financing to continue developing its service and expanding its brand. The funding was acquired from early stage investment groups Combine, Homebrew, and Compound.
The company’s service, Ask Tia, launched in June and has since responded to over 100,000 user questions on birth control options, insurance coverage,...
