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Georgia-based KORE, an internet of things (IoT) company focused on helping organizations manage and scale their offerings, and Australian company mCare Digital, which uses technology to help individuals live independently, announced the launch of a smartwatch for virtual patient monitoring called mCareWatch 241.  The watch features an SOS setting that enables wearers to obtain emergency assistance, call capabilities, GPS tracking, …

Amazon announced the repositioning of its healthcare offerings, rebranding and integrating Amazon Clinic into its hybrid primary care platform One Medical. The new One Medical Pay-per-visit telehealth service is available across the U.S. and offers consumers two options for healthcare services: a pay-per-visit model and a membership-based model. The pay-per-visit service allows customers to consult with healthcare providers for common …

Latest Zepp OS runs on ChatGPT-4o  China-based connected health technology firm Zepp Health has released the newest version of its smartwatch operating system, Zepp OS, which now runs on OpenAI’s latest GPT model.  Integrated with ChatGPT-4o, Zepp OS introduces an upgraded Zepp Flow voice assistant, which allows users to control their devices through voice commands without using specific keywords or physical …

Midlife women’s health clinic Midi Health announced it is collaborating with Keck Medicine of USC to provide personalized care plans to individuals going through perimenopause and menopause.  The California-based company offers women 40 years of age and older a virtual care platform with access to nurse practitioners specializing in perimenopause and menopause. Physicians and researchers oversee the nurses. The platform …

Fujifilm and Juntendo Hospital in Japan have developed an AI that can accurately predict the risk of falls among outpatients using hospital data.  Their research team collated over 500 features associated with falls, including age and prescription history, from hospital data collected in Fujifilm’s CITA Clinical Finder. The data platform is used to centrally manage data across various hospital departments, …

Virtual primary care provider K Health announced it secured $50 million in an equity funding round.  Claure Group led the round with participation from Pablo Legorreta, the founder and CEO of Royalty Pharma. Existing investors Valor Equity Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners and Atreides Management LP also joined the round.  WHAT IT DOES K Health is an AI-enabled virtual care provider that …

OMNY Health, which helps hospitals monetize operational data, has launched an AI-powered platform for health technology companies to leverage its data on more than 75 million patients.  The first two companies to utilize the data are AI-enabled clinical trial design company QuantHealth and life sciences company ArisGlobal. QuantHealth will add OMNY’s data to its existing AI technology trained on a …

GenAI radiology workflow company Rad AI and Bayer announced a collaboration to bring Rad AI’s technology to the multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company’s Calantic Digital Solution customers. Calantic is a vendor-neutral cloud-based marketplace of AI-enabled radiology apps aimed at automating routine radiology tasks.  California-based Rad AI offers radiologists generative AI tools to help streamline workflows, such as physician dictation and …

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Editor’s note: This article has been updated with a quote from Fabric. Healthcare technology and care enablement company Fabric announced it acquired Walmart’s telehealth platform MeMD, which provides virtual medical and behavioral health services to corporate, institutional and health plan clients.  MeMD offers 24/7 on-demand virtual urgent care, behavioral health and primary care services alongside a care coordination team to …