Clinical decision support

Healthcare provider standing beside a patient and their loved one
By  Jessica Hagen 12:25 pm November 12, 2024
Founder and former CEO of the London-based multinational digital health giant Babylon, Ali Parsa, announced the launch of his new company, Quadrivia AI, which will offer clinicians an AI assistant to help with administrative and clinical tasks.  Quadrivia's offering, Qu, is an AI-enabled personal clinical assistant available in multiple languages designed to support clinicians with various tasks...
LADO and Neurophet officials pose after an MOU signing
By  Adam Ang 06:46 pm November 10, 2024
Neurophet sets up China JV Medical imaging AI company Neurophet from South Korea has established a joint venture in China.  It recently signed an exclusive deal with LADO, one of the leading medical software providers in China, to market its AI-based software for quantifying levels of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in PET images.  The deal, which also establishes a joint venture with LADO, aims...
AITRICS VitalCare software
By  Adam Ang 08:11 pm November 4, 2024
South Korean medical AI company AITRICS has obtained clearance from the Ministry of Health, Vietnam for its AI software for predicting patient deterioration. VitalCare utilises AI to analyse 19 types of EMR data of patients in general wards to predict possible death, ICU transfer, and cardiac arrest within six hours. It can also predict sepsis within four hours, cardiac arrest within 24 hours, as...
Physical therapist working with a patient
By  Nathan Eddy 02:17 pm October 29, 2024
Healthcare tech company Medbridge announced the acquisition of AI-powered motion capture startup Rehab Boost, which provides real-time body movement analysis and feedback to help patients and providers undergoing rehabilitation treatment. Medbridge, based in Seattle, will reposition Rehab Boost as Medbridge Motion Capture, which will form a core element of the company’s AI-driven movement...
A doctor using a laptop computer
By  Adam Ang 12:30 am October 29, 2024
Collaborative research in Asia has called for prudence in using popular large language model-based (LLM) chatbots as part of public health research and response. In a study, which findings were published in BMJ, researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, RMIT University in Vietnam, and the National University of Singapore explored whether or not LLMs bridge or exacerbate the digital...
CU Medicine research team with the new Olympus endoscopy AI system
By  Adam Ang 10:45 am October 25, 2024
New upper GI endoscopy AI tested at CU Medicine The Chinese University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) became the first to test Olympus' new AI-powered upper gastrointestinal endoscopy system for detecting gastric cancers. The faculty first partnered with the Japanese medical endoscope manufacturer last year.  "The new AI endoscopic system is distinguished by its ability to...
Healthcare provider sitting in an office wearing a stethoscope and looking at a tablet
By  Anthony Vecchione 06:25 pm October 24, 2024
Dyania Health, an AI-enabled healthcare data company, announced the close of a $10 million Series A funding round led by HealthX, TechSquare and Cleveland Clinic Ventures with participation from existing investors.  WHAT IT DOES The company's Synapsis AI platform automates the reading and analysis of medical data, intending to allow more streamlined and ideal clinical research, report and quality...
Person walking down the street while looking at their phone
By  Jessica Hagen 05:16 pm October 23, 2024
Infinitus Systems, which utilizes AI to automate manual healthcare-related phone calls, announced it scored $51.5 million in Series C funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total raise to $102.9 million. Andreessen and Memorial Hermann Health System joined existing investors GV (Google Ventures), Coatue and Kleiner Perkins.   Scott Kupor, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, joined...
Healthcare provider talking in a patient in a clinical setting
By  Jessica Hagen 03:31 pm October 22, 2024
Amazon's hybrid primary care provider One Medical announced the launch of new AI tools to help ease its providers' administrative workload powered by AWS generative AI services, Amazon Bedrock and AWS HealthScribe. One Medical providers will be able to use HealthScribe to capture details discussed in real-time during patient visits, then subsequently review, update and approve the AI-generated...