Auxira Health, a virtual cardiology model, announced its official launch, with backing from MedStar Health and Abundant Venture Partners.  According to Auxira, the model uses a team of advanced practice providers (APPs), medical assistants and nurses working remotely to become an extension of an in-person cardiology staff. Auxira selects and matches APPs with physicians who […]

Persist AI, an AI-driven robotics platform for the pharmaceutical industry, announced an overscribed $12 million Series A funding round. Spero Ventures led the round with participation from MBX Capital, Shimadzu Future Innovation Fund managed by Global Brain Corporation, Eli Lilly & Company, SignalFire, Ford Street Capital, Purdue Ventures, Good AI Capital, Cartography Capital, Asymmetry Ventures

This is part two of MobiHealthNews’ two-part series that highlights the evolution of innovations that changed healthcare over the past several decades.  Keeping patients safe is a top priority for hospitals and health systems. According to The Leapfrog Group, a watchdog organization, medication errors are the most common mistakes in hospitals, contributing to nearly 7,000

Google announced the launch of MedGemma, which the company says contains the most capable open models that help developers build healthcare-based AI applications to examine medical images, generate medical image reports, triage patients or answer questions about medical images.  The open models, which users can fine-tune, come in two variants: a 4B multimodal version and

AI-backed imaging and care coordination company Viz.ai is partnering with biotechnology company Regeneron and biopharmaceutical company Sanofi to deploy and study an AI-enabled workflow tool for COPD.  Viz.ai offers a care coordination platform with more than 50 FDA-cleared algorithms that help analyze medical imaging data to provide insights into diagnosis, streamline workflows and assist with treatment

Venture capital firm Abundant Venture Partners launched Abundant Platform aimed at helping startup companies partner with providers.  The platform will be offered through the firm’s Venture Studio, which helps healthcare startups gain commercial traction, connect with target buyers, form partnerships and receive strategic operations support.  Abundant Venture Studio members have access to the Abundant Alliance,

Phase Scientific, a company developing urine-based diagnostics tests for early disease detection, announced it completed a $34 million Series A funding round.  A private equity fund managed by Asia-based Value Partners Group led the round, with backing from other new investors and existing global investors.  The biotechnology company’s test Phasify uses urine concentration technology for

This is part one of MobiHealthNews’ two-part series that will highlight the evolution of innovations that changed healthcare over the past several decades.  In the past 30 years, the role of technology in healthcare has been breathtaking in its scope and impact. Thousands of technological advances, from electronic health records (EHRs) to wearables, have revolutionized

The National Centre for Healthy Ageing, a research institute by Monash University and Peninsula Health in Australia, has developed a new AI-driven method to efficiently identify dementia in hospitals.  It researched ways to uplift dementia detection in healthcare settings by combining traditional and AI-driven case identification approaches.  FINDINGS Based on a media release, the NCHA

Tech giant Microsoft announced it is adding Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI’s Grok 3 to its Azure platform.  Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini will be available through Azure’s AI Foundry platform, which allows developers to design, manage, customize and support enterprise-ready AI agents and apps.  Grok 3, xAI’s flagship model, comprises LLMs focused on