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

Lila Sciences is developing an AI-enabled scientific superintelligence platform—paired with autonomous labs—that can run the entire scientific method. In a conversation with MobiHealthNews, Molly Gibson, president of future science at Lila Sciences, explained that this technology extends beyond traditional AI applications, such as protein modeling, by generating hypotheses, designing experiments and learning from results. She

ChatEHR, AI software developed at Stanford Medicine, is speeding up chart reviews by permitting clinicians to ask questions about medical records. Similar to how you can chat with a large language model like GPT-4, Stanford Health Care clinicians can connect with a patient’s medical record through ChatEHR.  In a statement, Stanford Medicine said the technology, currently

Manulife Canada, a financial services provider, is partnering with Maven Clinic, a virtual care clinic for women, to provide Manulife Group Benefits plan members access to Maven’s digital programs. Maven Clinic focuses on supporting women and families in areas such as fertility, family building and planning, maternity and newborn care, parenting, pediatrics and menopause. In

Goldeneye 1995 LLC, an affiliate of fintech investor and Ripple’s former chief risk officer, Greg Kidd, is buying a controlling interest in health monitoring company Know Labs using 1,000 Bitcoin and some extra cash.  U.S.-based medical device company Know Labs develops non-invasive health monitoring tools using radio-microwave spectroscopy to help identify and measure molecules inside

The FDA launched Elsa, a generative AI tool designed to help employees, including scientific reviewers and investigators, work more efficiently.  In a statement, the agency said the tool “modernizes agency functions and leverages AI capabilities to serve the American people better.” Constructed in a high-security government cloud environment, Elsa provides a platform for FDA employees to