Marcel Botha, CEO and founder of 10XBeta, a MedTech innovation firm and venture studio, joined MobiHealthNews to discuss the widespread and unintended consequences of tariffs imposed by the Trump Administration on the MedTech supply chain. Botha states that these tariffs will impact not only final medical products but also critical components and subassemblies, thereby hindering […]

At the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA), member states approved an extension of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Global Strategy on Digital Health through 2027.  Initially launched in 2020, the WHO’s strategy aims to guide countries through adopting and scaling digital health tools focused on improving care delivery, equity, and resilience.  It emphasizes strategic objectives

Microsoft announced that its agent orchestrator for cancer care management is now available in the Azure AI Foundry Agent Catalog. Azure’s AI Foundry platform allows developers to design, manage, customize and support enterprise-ready AI agents and apps.  An agent orchestrator is a system that allows multiple AI agents to work together to complete a task.

E-clinic startup CureBay in India has bagged $21 million in a Series B funding round led by Bertelsmann India Investment. Elevar Equity and British International Investment also joined the fundraising event. Since launching in 2021, the company now has a chain of over 150 rural e-clinics across the states of Odisha and Chhattisgarh, employing over

WellTheory, a whole-person virtual care platform for individuals with autoimmune diseases, has garnered $5 million in funding and rolled out two new AI tools. Samsung Next, Up2 Fund and Opal Ventures participated in the round alongside existing investors OVO Fund, Accel and BoxGroup.  WHAT IT DOES Along with the funding, San Francisco-based WellTheory is unveiling

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