Abu Mirza, global SVP of digital products and engineering at GE HealthCare, sat down with MobiHealthNews during the JPM Healthcare Conference in San Francisco to discuss the company’s use of AI and smart technologies and its work to enhance patient care, streamline operations and address challenges like cybersecurity and workforce shortages.
MobiHealthNews: You mentioned to MHN that JPM is a...
Digital front door platform company Amenities Health is partnering with healthcare provider Ascend Medical to develop an app to allow patients to complete digital registration in less than 60 seconds and schedule appointments online via a tool that sorts appointments by the earliest available times and closest proximity.
Ascend Medical created a white label mobile app that uses Amenities Health'...
Cornerstone Robotics bags $70M Series C funding
Surgical robotics maker Cornerstone Robotics from Hong Kong has raised over $70 million in a Series C funding round led by EQT. It also received additional investment from the Hong Kong government's Innovation and Technology Venture Fund.
The company, established in 2019, will use its fresh funds to expand into key global markets in Europe and...
At a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) event in San Francisco during the JPM Healthcare Conference taking place this week, panelists discussed the government's role in advancing AI technology and government oversight of the technology with the changing administration.
Micky Tripathi, assistant secretary for technology policy, national coordinator for health IT and chief AI officer for the U.S....
Virtual care company Teladoc, is collaborating with Amazon to expand access to Teladoc’s chronic condition programs.
The aim is for customers of Amazon that are eligible for Teladoc Health’s diabetes, hypertension, pre-diabetes and weight management programs, to be able to seamlessly discover and enroll in these benefits directly through Amazon’s Health Benefits Connector, previously known as...
Ambient AI medical documentation company Augmedix, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Commure, has been awarded a contract with Vizient, a healthcare performance improvement company, for Augmedix’s AI suite.
With Augmedix Go offering, Vizient’s provider clients will have access to a scalable AI documentation product that immediately drafts medical notes from natural clinician-patient conversations. ...
Researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Beijing Tongren Hospital have developed a foundational AI model for automated eye disease diagnosis.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT
The generative AI model, VisionFM, was pre-trained on a large ophthalmic data cohort containing 3.4 million images from over 500,000 individuals worldwide. The pre-training dataset covers eight eye imaging modalities,...
Editor's note: This article has been updated with context from Philips regarding the number of helium-free scanners installed in the U.S.
Shez Partovi, chief innovation and strategy officer at Philips, spoke with MobiHealthNews during the JPM Healthcare Conference about the company’s advancements in pathology and radiology and its perspective on responsible AI development.
MobiHealthNews: What...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is joining forces with investment firm General Catalyst to codevelop and deploy integrated AI-powered offerings that focuses on critical needs in predictive and personalized care, interoperability, operational and clinical efficiency, diagnostics and patient engagement.
The companies plan to employ the power of generative AI using Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic and Mistral...
Back-to-back news over the past few years since the recent pandemic reported on the aggressive global expansion of South Korean companies in the medical imaging AI space.
From securing regulatory approvals to closing national and regional-scale distribution and partnerships, these innovators (such as Lunit, VUNO, and Coreline Soft) seemed to have convinced health systems worldwide of the...
