Health and Wellness

Healthcare practitioners administering injection to patient
By  Anthony Vecchione 11:58 am November 14, 2024
HealthTap, a virtual primary care provider, is partnering with AeroFlow, a company that delivers medical products and services, to enter the durable medical equipment market (DME), allowing patients to more easily access primary care and DME services. HealthTap provides virtual primary care, including mental health, urgent care, sexual health and wellness, and lifestyle services. Consumers can...
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By  Jessica Hagen 04:51 pm November 13, 2024
Global healthcare AI company Ubie announced its AI-enabled symptom tracker will be integrated into PatientsLikeMe's patient engagement and health management platform to support patients from the first sign of symptoms through the treatment journey.    Ubie offers a free AI-powered symptom checker trained on clinical research papers. The platform is intended to accelerate disease detection and,...
Executives discussing business deal
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:38 pm November 13, 2024
Cardinal Health entered into a definitive agreement with GI Alliance (GIA) and Advanced Diabetes Supply Group (ADSG) with the aim of advancing its presence in the multispecialty GI and at-home diabetes spaces. The company will acquire a majority stake in GIA for $2.8 billion giving it 71% ownership. For its part, GIA will operate as a platform within Cardinal Health's pharmaceutical and specialty...
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By  Anthony Vecchione 03:13 pm November 12, 2024
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a quote from Rula.  Rula announced that its network of more than 10,000 mental health providers will now be available to Amazon customers through Amazon's Health Conditions Programs. Rula connects patients with mental healthcare professionals and offers extensive support during multiple steps of a patient's mental health experience. The digital...
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By  Anthony Vecchione 01:14 pm November 12, 2024
Digital biology company Optic is collaborating with early-stage oncology therapeutics venture, Vindur Tx, to use Optics proprietary generative AI platform to find novel highly selective kinase inhibitors and develop more effective cancer treatments.  Vindur Tx agreed to pay Optic as much as $17.5 million for its proprietary technology to search for new ways of addressing what the company called...
Healthcare professional reviewing imaging results
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:34 pm November 11, 2024
GE HealthCare and DeepHealth, a subsidiary of RadNet, announced they are collaborating on new AI imaging technology to further innovation, commercialization and adoption of AI in imaging. The companies will codevelop SmartTechnology, solutions that employ the power of AI to tackle key obstacles across the imaging value chain, such as helping increase the efficiency of imaging interpretation and...
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-...
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By  Anthony Vecchione 03:16 pm November 7, 2024
Behavioral health prediction and care navigation company Ontrak has expanded its key partnership with Sentara Health Plans in Virginia.  The expansion constitutes a dual expansion of Ontrak's Engage platform, a 12-month coaching-specific option for members who might benefit from ongoing care coaching to address physical and behavioral health barriers and social needs.  The Ontrak platform uses AI...
Person doing rehabilitation exercises while wearing a headset and standing next to a PT
By  Jessica Hagen 04:22 pm November 6, 2024
Therapeutic extended reality platform XRHealth announced it acquired cognitive training VR platform NeuroReality and its assets, including its main product, Koji's Quest. Boston-based XRHealth offers a catalog of immersive medical extended reality (XR) experiences focused on the physical and cognitive space, including symptom management, meditation exercises, upper extremity rehabilitation,...
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By  Anthony Vecchione 01:36 pm November 6, 2024
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...