AI startup Research Grid, which helps medical research institutions automate administrative tasks for clinical trials, announced it raised $6.5 million in seed funding.
Fuel Ventures led the round with participation from Ada Ventures, Arve Capital, Arāya Ventures, Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab, Plug and Play Ventures, Atomico Angels and Ascension Ventures.
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Research Grid is...
DarioHealth, a digital chronic-condition management platform, announced a collaboration with an unnamed pharma company that will leverage DarioConnect (formerly Twill Care) to advance its direct-to-consumer initiatives using Dario's engagement and navigation technologies.
The aim of the alliance is to gather critical insights on patient outcomes and drug effectiveness with Dario Connect's...
Sense Neuro Diagnostics, a medical technology company involved in improving outcomes for stroke and brain injuries, was awarded a $2 million contract by the Department of Defense (DoD), Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) via the Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychological Health Research Program (TBI PHRP).
The aim of the funding is to support clinical trials for Sense's...
Digital Healthcare company WELL Health Technologies Corp. entered into definitive agreements to acquire the clinical assets of Jack Nathan Medical Corp., which includes a network of 16 owned and operated primary care clinics across 13 Canadian cities and a clinic-licensing business with 62 licensee clinics, which the company says will become the model for its new Affiliate Clinic business stream...
Global clinical-stage biotech company HuidaGene Therapeutics has received FDA clearance to move forward with its application for its investigational drug, a CRISPR/Cas13 RNA-editing therapy to treat neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD), dubbed HG202, developed using machine learning and AI.
The company used its HG-PRECISE platform (HuidaGene – Platform for Rational Engineering of...
Ballad Health, a healthcare system, is using AI-based patient safety company MedAware's AI-powered medication safety monitoring platform to allow real-time personalized risk monitoring for acute care patients.
The acute care pharmacy team at Ballad Health is the first to natively employ MedAware within an Epic pharmacy workflow. The two companies have been partners since 2023.
MedAware's...
eNavvi, an online pharmacy founded by physicians, is joining forces with Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC) to allow physicians to prescribe medications directly via eNavvi's digital prescription pad to more than 7,000 independent pharmacies and national grocery pharmacy chains.
The aim is to streamline the prescribing process, improve convenience and enhance prescription-price...
Israel-based AION Labs, an AI-enabled drug discovery partnership between global pharma and tech companies, has launched ProPhet, a startup using artificial intelligence to locate small molecules for drug discovery.
ProPhet was established following AION Labs' startup challenge focused on AI-powered drug discovery of new high-affinity small molecules.
The aim is to address the market need to speed...
Mark Cuban says it is vital for government officials to consider and understand the hierarchy when it comes to the prescription drug market and evaluating and setting laws around drug pricing.
"To me, it's all about transparency. In the drug market, and across healthcare, the opacity allows the biggest players to influence pricing and effectively find arbitrage points," Cuban told MobiHealthNews...
HeartFocus, AI-enabled heart echo software by medtech firm DESKi, announced the launch of the HeartFocus education app in partnership with digital ultrasound company Butterfly Network.
The HeartFocus app aims to raise a health practitioner's ability to master 10 vital cardiac views with certainty and clinical accuracy over a short period via customized and self-paced AI-powered learning. ...
