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

Olio, a platform that links hospital teams with post-acute providers for care collaboration, scored $11 million in Series B funding led by Fulcrum Equity Partners. Mutual Capital Partners also participated in the round.  WHAT IT DOES Olio’s care coordination platform allows a hospital’s care team, including doctors and administrators, to obtain information about their patients

Israeli startup PhaseV, an AI-enabled clinical development company for life sciences, has secured $50 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by Accel and Insight Partners.  Existing investors Viola Ventures, LionBird and EXOR also participated in the round.  The round brings the company’s total raise to $65 million.  WHAT IT DOES PhaseV offers

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it is embracing a new program aimed at expanding innovative, human-based science to decrease the use of animals in research.  According to the NIH, although traditional animal models remain essential to advancing scientific knowledge, technologies can offer strengths that can expand researchers’ toolbox to answer difficult or unanswerable

Chronic care management company Omada Health filed an S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public on Friday, making it the second digital health company to seek an IPO this year.  The company did not specify how many shares would be offered or the price range for the proposed offering. It intends

Hippocratic AI,  a generative AI company developing safety-focused large language models for healthcare, partnered with EUCALIA, a healthcare transformation company, to launch the first Japanese-language generative AI healthcare agent for non-diagnostic, patient-facing clinical tasks.  The partnership marks Hippocratic AI’s entry into the Japanese market. EUCALIA provides management and operational support to healthcare professionals, including medical