Hong Kong-based startup PanopticAI has obtained regulatory approval in the United States for its contactless pulse rate measuring application.
It received the US Food and Drug Administration's 510(k) clearance for the PanopticAI Vital Signs app on iOS devices.
Based on PanopticAI's proprietary remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) algorithms, the app transforms the cameras of iOS devices into...
Virtual women's healthcare platform Allara Health scored $26 million in Series B funding, bringing its total raise to $38.5 million.
Index Ventures led the round with participation from existing investor GV (Google Ventures).
WHAT IT DOES
Allara Health offers a virtual care platform for women battling chronic hormonal conditions, such as endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) and...
Specialty care platform Lantern announced a partnership with digital substance use management platform Pelago to provide Lantern's clients with access to personalized substance use disorder treatment.
Starting next year, Lantern clients will gain access to Pelago’s substance use disorder (SUD) treatment via the company’s specialty care platform, which covers all substances and severities, such...
DarioHealth, a digital chronic condition management platform, closed a $25.6 million private placement of convertible preferred stock, with most of the funds secured from existing shareholders.
The balance of the funds was provided by a network of accredited healthcare investors and executives from within the healthcare sector.
Private placement is a way for a company to sell debt or equity...
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...
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,...
AI-enabled real-world evidence platform Century Health and neurology-based medical practice Nira Medical announced a partnership to curate data from more than 3,000 patients with multiple sclerosis.
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic neurological disease in which the patient's immune system attacks their central nervous system, causing scars around the myelin of the nerves.
Dependent on data from...
OMNY Health, a company that helps hospitals monetize operational data, announced a partnership with Scipher Medicine to promote precision medicine efforts for immunology.
The aim of the collaboration is to integrate transcriptomic data from Scipher Medicine with OMNY Health's EHR network that extends to more than 80 million patients.
OMNY Health’s network is composed of data from almost 250,000...
Five digital health startups recently graduated from the accelerator programme of the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and 22Health Ventures. Started as a hackathon event, the NUS Medicine Digital Advanced Technology Accelerator (DATA) supports startups to quickly scale their solutions for improving patient outcomes and clinician productivity.
"It's truly exciting...
Circular, maker of smart ring technology, announced its next-generation wearable, the Ring 2, which includes ECG capability with its FDA-cleared AFib detection algorithm that provides real-time heart health data to wearers.
The titanium Ring 2 – available in gold, silver, black and rose gold – also includes digital ring sizing, sleep stage analysis and a wireless charging dock. Digital ring...
