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

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