AI Healthcare Startup Forward Shuts Down
Forward aimed to transform the healthcare industry by offering tech-heavy, subscription-based services through staffed clinics and sleek CarePod kiosks deployed in public spaces like malls and gyms.
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Pharos Raises $5M to Automate Hospital Quality Reporting with AI
Pharos's AI technology automatically pulls required data from unstructured medical records, enabling real-time quality monitoring instead of the weeks-long delays typical with manual reporting.
Microsoft Announces AI Agents for Healthcare in Copilot Studio to Ease Clinical Workloads
These AI agents can handle a range of healthcare duties, from scheduling appointments to matching patients with clinical trials.
Microsoft Adds 3 New Multimodal Medical Imaging AI Models to Azure
These models, developed in collaboration with partners like Providence Healthcare and digital pathology company, Paige.ai, offer a range of functionalities to enhance medical imaging processes.
Google’s HeAR Model Now Available via Cloud API for Health Research
Researchers have found that HeAR outperforms other models across a wide range of tasks, demonstrating superior ability to capture meaningful patterns in health-related acoustic data.
AliveCor Launches Kardia 12L: A Handheld, AI-Powered Pocket ECG that Detects Heart Attacks
This AI can identify 35 cardiac determinations, including 14 arrhythmias and 21 morphologies, with acute myocardial infarction and various forms of cardiac ischemia.
Med-Gemini: Advancing Medical AI with Highly Capable Multimodal Models
Med-Gemini sets a new state-of-the-art of 91.1% in MedQA-USMLE and outperforms GPT-4 models by an average relative margin of 44.5% on 7 multimodal benchmarks including NEJM Image Challenges.
Fabric Announces $60M Series A to Tackle Healthcare Capacity Crisis
The startup has reportedly grown from zero to 8 figures in annual recurring revenue since emerging from stealth mode.
CMS Bans Medicare Advantage Insurers From Using AI to Deny Care
CMS worries that AI could perpetuate discrimination or fail to account for unique patient needs.
AI is Making Mental Health Care More Accessible and Engaging
These innovations promise a more inclusive, effective, and patient-centered approach to mental health care, especially for those in underrepresented communities.
Ambience Healthcare Secures $70M as Investors Bet on AI to Transform Healthcare Workflows
A key ingredient in Ambience’s early success is custom-tailoring its AI to support the unique needs of specialties from oncology to pediatrics. This ensures clinical nuance is accounted for instead of a one-size-fits-all model that may fail to resonate.
Amazon Bets on AI to Enhance Pharmacy Experience
Powered by multiple, pre-trained models from Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMake, the company believes AI can help set a new industry standard for convenience and accessibility.
Google Shares Research Progress on AI that Converses, Reasons and Diagnoses Like Your Doctor
AMIE demonstrated stronger diagnostic accuracy and outperformed doctors on most metrics of consultation quality in both diagnostic accuracy and clinical communication.
Nabla Secures $24 Million in Series B Funding to Accelerate Healthcare Copilot Rollout
Their Copilot platform is integrated with major Electronic Health Records systems like Epic and Nextgen, and already handles over 3 million consultations annually in three languages.
Google Introduces MedLM, A New Family of AI Models for the Healthcare Industry
These models, a larger one for complex tasks and a medium model suitable for scaling across tasks, are designed to handle diverse applications from summarizing conversations to navigating medication databases.
NVIDIA Launches MONAI to Streamline Medical Imaging AI Development
MONAI is comprehensive suite of enterprise-grade containers, AI models, and cloud APIs based on the open-source Project MONAI.
Forward Health Unveils AI-Powered 'CarePods' and Announces $100 Million in New Funding
The concept behind CarePods is to offer an immersive experience where patients are in control of their health journey.
Abridge Raises $30 Million to Accelerate Adoption of its AI-Powered Clinical Documentation
The investment will support Abridge’s rapid expansion as health systems nationwide adopt its technology to reduce clinician burnout and enhance patient care.
M42 Health Unveils Med42 - A Milestone for Open Access in AI for Healthcare
The model achieved up to 72% accuracy in a zero-shot evaluation on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), and outperforms OpenAI's ChatGPT 3.5.
Microsoft Unveils New Healthcare-Specific Data and AI Tools
At the heart of these innovations is Microsoft Fabric. Introduced earlier this year as a comprehensive analytics platform, Microsoft has now imbued Fabric with healthcare-specific solutions.
Google adds Medically-Tuned Generative AI Search for Healthcare and Life Science Companies
Vertex AI Search for healthcare leverages Google's Healthcare API, Healthcare Data Engine, and search technology from its Care Studio pilot to enable natural language search on clinical data.
Corti Secures $60M in Series B Funding to Fuel Healthcare AI Innovation
The new capital will support Corti's rapid growth and continued innovation in conversational AI for healthcare and emergency response.
Oracle Unveils AI-Powered Clinical Assistant to Enhance Patient Care
The clinical assistant automates routine tasks like taking notes during patient visits and proposing relevant follow-up actions.
Mendaera Announces $24M Series A and Expansion Into Production Facility
The company will use the new funds to accelerate growth and manufacturing in preparation for FDA clearance and product launch.
Abridge Announces Partnership with Epic and Emory Healthcare to Bring Generative AI to Providers
The company's technology records conversations, generates note drafts within minutes, and integrates the drafts into the provider's EHR workflow.