Physician Engagement

Punit Singh Soni, founder and CEO of Suki
By  Jessica Hagen 04:25 pm March 5, 2025
LAS VEGAS - Punit Singh Soni, founder and CEO of Suki, maker of an AI-backed healthcare voice tool, sat down with MobiHealthNews at the 2025 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition here to discuss the evolution of the company and its experience at the conference. MobiHealthNews: How are you enjoying HIMSS25? Punit Singh Soni: This year has been insane, and I was reflecting on it last...
A doctor reviewing a patient's file on a digital tablet
By  Adam Ang 06:05 am February 24, 2025
Auckland-based health IT company Medtech Global has been acquired by software acquirer Banyan Software from the United States. Founded in 1989, Medtech claims to develop the first practice management system in New Zealand. It also offers a payment solution and a digital health application integration platform.  WHY IT MATTERS Medtech was first sold during the thick of the pandemic in 2020 to...
Healthcare provider standing next to a window while looking at a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 02:57 pm February 21, 2025
OpenEvidence, an AI-enabled medical research aggregate platform for doctors, has closed a Series A funding round with Sequoia Capital, boosting its valuation to $1 billion and bringing its total raise to more than $100 million.  WHAT IT DOES  OpenEvidence is a free medical information platform that offers an AI-enabled medical copilot for doctors in the U.S. It aggregates and synthesizes clinical...
Healthcare provider checking a small patient
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:51 pm December 20, 2024
Researchers concluded that the strong performance of GPT-4 large language models (LLMs) suggests their potential as a tool to help fill gaps in physicians' knowledge and aid in diagnosing medical conditions in the future, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence. Physical examinations are important diagnostic tools that can disclose critical insights into a...
Three people standing in front of a large board showing the world map
By  Jessica Hagen 09:00 am December 12, 2024
Healthcare data and analytics company Tuva Health has launched with $5 million in seed funding.  Virtue led the round, with participation from Y Combinator, Box Group and health tech angel investors.  WHAT IT DOES  Tuva Health provides tools for pharmaceutical companies, payers and providers to gather insights from EHR and claims datasets via an open-source data model.  The company will use the...
Healthcare provider sitting with their head in their hands
By  Jessica Hagen 11:43 am December 6, 2024
Offcall, a platform focused on helping physicians with their careers and finances, has launched with $2 million in funding from Bloomberg Beta, Roar Ventures and 26 practicing physicians nationwide. Physicians who participated in the round include Dr. Shiv Rao, founder and CEO of AI-enabled medical documentation company Abridge; Dr. Joseph Habboushe, CEO and cofounder of MDCalc; and Dr. Cheri...
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...
A doctor in a virtual consultation with a patient
By  Adam Ang 06:42 pm November 10, 2024
New telehealth feature on MedAdvisor patient app Pharmacy-focused MedAdvisor has announced the launch of a new telehealth functionality on its mobile patient application. The telehealth feature allows patients to book virtual consultations with providers, receive e-prescriptions, and pre-order medications and receive purchase renewal reminders from preferred pharmacies.  Early this year, the ASX-...
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...
Five people sitting around a table speaking with each other
By  Jessica Hagen 08:00 am October 15, 2024
MDisrupt, a marketplace for healthcare technology, has received a $1 million milestone-based investment from American Heart Association Ventures, the newly established venture firm that leads AHA's investments. Texas-based MDisrupt also entered into a service agreement with the American Heart Association to co-develop a platform to connect experts and innovators.  MDisrupt offers an AI-powered...