The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC) are asking for public input on how best to promote a seamless, safe, patient-centered digital health infrastructure for Medicare.  According to CMS, the aim is to unharness the power of modern […]

The Prince Philip Dental Hospital in Hong Kong has opened a new AI-powered clinic focused on the prevention and early detection of oral cancer. The clinic was set up with the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Dentistry. Touted as a first of its kind in the

Korean ARPA-H to build AI-driven surgery assistant robot  The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) in South Korea and the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) announced three additional projects under the Korean Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).  One of these is an AI-powered assistant robot, which will be designed to perform repetitive

Data sharing technology company Datavant announced it will acquire Aetion, a company focused on real-world evidence in healthcare. Aetion will join Datavant to offer an end-to-end real-world evidence (RWE) platform, allowing healthcare and life sciences companies to respond to research questions about the clinical impact of therapies in development and in-market. Davavant’s platform enables healthcare

Cognixion, a developer of noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, announced that Blackrock Neurotech, a company that makes implantable BCIs, will provide Cognixion’s Axon-R wearable neural interface platform to research institutions via its distribution network. Blackrock Neurotech will act as an unrestricted distributor of Cognixion’s Axon-R, a noninvasive wearable that allows exact measurement and modulation of brain

SpotitEarly, a biotech startup that uses AI and dogs to detect cancer using an at-home test, announced its launch into the U.S. market with $20.3 million in funding.  The company has received funding from Menomedin VC, Jeff Swartz (former CEO of Timberland), Avishai Abrahami (CEO of Wix.com), Hanaco VC and others.  Additionally, SpotitEarly was awarded

OpenAI has announced the launch of HealthBench, a benchmark to evaluate AI models in healthcare using real-world applicability and physician judgment.  “The 5,000 conversations in HealthBench simulate interactions between AI models and individual users or clinicians. The task for a model is to provide the best possible response to the user’s last message,” the company

Population-wide cancer screening programs in Germany have tapped support from South Korean medical imaging AI providers. KOSDAQ-listed Lunit recently signed a five-year partnership with private radiology network Starvision Service to deploy several medical imaging AI solutions across its 79 sites. These include software applications for analysing chest, breast, and fracture images. Initial rollouts are underway,

President Donald Trump has announced that he will support a $5,000 baby bonus to help persuade people to have more children.  Anu Sharma, founder and CEO of Millie, a California-based tech-enabled maternity clinic, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the practicality of such a proposal and what needs to be done before the government attempts

New York-based Synchron, a brain-computer interface (BCI) company, announced it will be the first BCI company to reach native integration with Apple’s new BCI Human Interface Device (BCI HID) profile unveiled on May 13.  To avoid open brain surgery, Synchron uses a minimally invasive endovascular procedure, not unlike the placement of cardiovascular stents. Neural signals