Humana has unveiled an agreement with value-based cancer care platform Thyme Care with the aim of providing oncology support for its Medicare Advantage (MA) members.
The agreement impacts MA members who reside in Michigan, New York, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Eligible Humana members will have access to Thyme Care’s services, which include 24/7 virtual care...
Google has received FDA clearance for its loss of pulse detection feature available on Pixel Watch 3.
The loss of pulse detection technology checks for an individual's pulse. Once it detects signs of a loss of pulse, it activates infrared and red lights to search for additional pulse signals. A motion sensor then checks for signs of movement.
An AI algorithm then analyzes the pulse and movement...
Musician and record producer Pharrell Williams' nonprofit organization, Black Ambition, is accepting applications for the 2025 Black Ambition Prize Competition, which will provide more than $1 million in funding for up to 25 applicants focused on innovating in the healthcare, technology, AI, consumer products and services, and media and entertainment.
Early-stage underrepresented entrepreneurs...
AI-enabled text-first virtual healthcare clinic Curai Health is partnering with UMass Chan Medical School to study how at-home antigen and molecular tests compare with lab PCR tests in detecting the current variants of COVID-19 and influenza.
Curai Health offers a primary care team and AI-powered software that embeds into a provider's care delivery services.
Its offerings include personalized...
Virtual healthcare provider HealthTap is collaborating with correctional healthcare company NaphCare to provide virtual primary care and urgent care to individuals in halfway houses and transition centers.
Through the collaboration, incarcerated people from federal prisons contracted with NaphCare living in halfway houses and transition centers will be able to receive care from HealthTap's care...
Digital business and services company Conduent has been selected by the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) to replace its legacy public health surveillance system with Conduent's Maven disease surveillance and outbreak management system.
The cloud-based platform will enable OSDH to detect, monitor, track and report public health threats and infectious disease outbreaks, transforming data...
During the JPM Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Zhenya Lindgardt, CEO of Sera Prognostics, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the company’s focus on preventing preterm birth, a leading cause of neonatal mortality, by identifying protein markers that indicate risk.
MobiHealthNews: How does Sera work in women's health?
Zhenya Lindgardt: Sera is a unique company. Any executive dreams of...
Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect that Secretary of State Mario Rubio announced he will be acting administrator of USAID.
During a live session on X Spaces, previously Twitter Spaces, Elon Musk confirmed that he spoke with President Trump about the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the president "agreed that we should shut it down."
USAID is an...
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America has joined forces with Uber Health to allow Guardian Group Benefits members with an approved long-term disability claim to receive an Uber voucher for rides to medical appointments or rehabilitation services.
The aim is to help eliminate barriers to care and support member recovery and well-being.
The voucher, available in the Uber app, will be open...
When asked by MobiHealthNews how they see AI's place in the sector changing in 2025, executives explained how the focus of AI will shift from what it can do to what it does, and the role the technology can play in extending current provider capacity via clinical decision support, ambient charting, inbox management and streamlining care operations.
Some leaders said AI will revolutionize how...
