Michael Needham, principal at Efficio, a global supply chain procurement consultancy, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss how global disruptions due to the proposed and current tariffs are forcing procurement leaders to rethink sourcing strategies, improve supply chain visibility and boost supplier resilience.  MobiHealthNews: How have tariffs impacted healthcare technology? Michael Needham: In the near […]

Fives Faces scores A$1M Series A funding Alphalitica, which operates as Five Faces, a provider of patient experience software, has collected A$1 million ($650,000) in a Series A funding round led by the Utiliti Group.  The Queensland-based company, which started in digital signage in 2019, offers a low-code software that supports the quick digitisation of patient

A new AI model that is capable of simultaneous analysis of different skin images can potentially improve the diagnostic accuracy of both dermatology and non-dermatology professionals.  An international research team led by AI and machine learning experts from Monash University developed a multimodal foundation model, called PanDerm, designed as a clinical decision support tool in dermatology. It

Numerous Google Cloud services, including those used widely within healthcare, such as Google Vertex AI Online Prediction, Dialogflow CX, Agent Assist and Contact Center AI, were down for nearly four hours on Thursday affecting users globally. “We have identified the root cause and applied appropriate mitigations. Our infrastructure has recovered in all regions except us-central1,”

Pharmacy benefits manager LucyRx is partnering with Personify Health, a health navigation and benefits company, to provide employers with a more individualized, clinically focused strategy for managing GLP medications and weight care. The companies will provide an integrated offering that merges pharmacy benefit strategy with support from GLP-1-trained coaches, personalized care plans for medication management

MedTech Innovator is an accelerator that works with large companies to invest in, support and scale healthcare technology companies. Its partners include Johnson & Johnson, the American Heart Association, and others. MedTech has graduated more than 700 companies with 93% of them still in business.  Paul Grand, CEO of MedTech Innovator, spoke with MobiHealthNews about

Pharmacy benefit manager Capital Rx announced it acquired health navigation platform Amino Health.  Amino Health will become Capital Rx’s care navigation offering, Judi Care, thereby expanding the company’s enterprise platform capacity to almost 60 million covered lives across its portfolio. Judi Care is a healthcare navigation platform that links members to in-network care with built-in

Atraverse Medical, a medical device company involved in minimally invasive cardiac procedures, announced the close of a $29.4 million follow-on financing. The raise expands upon $12.5 million in prior seed investment, which was utilized to obtain FDA 510(k) clearance and initiate early commercialization of Hotwire, the company’s radiofrequency guidewire for left-heart access.  The company has

Guidehealth, an AI-enabled value-based care provider for health systems, announced it received a $10 million strategic investment from Georgia-based academic health system Emory Healthcare.  WHAT IT DOES Guidehealth offers a value-based care platform for providers that provides AI insights into which patients need specific care before a preventable health event.  The platform also offers virtual

Atropos Health, a company that translates real-world clinical data into real-world evidence, announced a  partnership with Databricks, a data intelligence and AI provider. By expanding on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and leveraging delta sharing, Atropos Health aims to enable clinicians and researchers to create actionable insights to increase drug discoveries and reduce the time