Health

Woebot Health, maker of an AI-powered mental health chatbot, announced it signed a three-year agreement with Ohio-based nonprofit pediatric healthcare system Akron Children’s to provide pediatric mental health support to adolescents 13 to 17 years.  Woebot’s nonprescription digital mental health tool includes content specific to teens, including media literacy, bullying in school settings, and body image and psychoeducation.  Beginning in …

Salcit Technologies, an India-based respiratory healthcare company, has joined forces with the Google Research team to explore how Google’s Health Acoustic Representations (HeAR), can help expand the capabilities of Salcit’s bioacoustic AI technology Swaasa. Swaasa uses HeAR to help research and enhance early detection of tuberculosis based on cough sounds. “Every missed case of tuberculosis is a tragedy; every late …

HTC Vive is carving out a unique role in healthcare, creating virtual reality headsets and investing in medical extended reality (XR) technologies and companies.  Dan O’Brien, president for the Americas at HTC Vive, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss HTC Vive’s place in healthcare and what investors should prioritize when funding medical XR ventures and emerging technologies. MobiHealthNews: How is HTC …

Consensus, an AI-enabled academic search engine for scientific research, raised $11.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Union Square Ventures. Perplexity lead investors Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman participated in the round alongside former Seed investors Kevin Carter, Draper Associates, Alumni Ventures and Path Ventures. WHAT IT DOES The company is building an AI-powered search engine to …

The International Space Station National Laboratory (ISS National Lab) and NASA announced a new solicitation, the National Lab Research Announcement (NLRA), which will offer up to $4 million spread out over two to three awards for projects that leverage the space environment and technology to develop therapies for diseases on Earth. The joint solicitation focuses on projects that provide enhanced …

Community health centres, or puskesmas, in the Indonesian province of West Java, south of capital Jakarta, will leverage generative AI to augment their capabilities to address critical health issues.  The Sumedang regency recently tied up with Singaporean doctors’ networking platform Docquity to develop and launch the genAI-powered virtual assistant called TehAI.  HOW IT WORKS TehAI reportedly has an intuitive and easy-to-use chat …

Google research scientist Jake Sunshine sat down with MobiHealthNews at Google’s Bay View headquarters on Tuesday during the tech giant’s Made by Google event to discuss the first-of-its-kind loss of pulse detection technology available on the Pixel Watch 3.  The feature, initially available in the E.U. and U.K., detects signs of a loss of pulse, turns on infrared and red …

Femtech company Clue, which offers an app focused on menstrual cycle tracking and reproductive health, announced it is partnering with digital mental health company Headspace to provide Clue Plus Members a 50% discount off a Headspace subscription. Clue offers reproductive health services from period to pregnancy tracking. Through the partnership, Clue Plus Members will have access to Headspace’s mental health …

Swimming is a great form of exercise we can all enjoy, and there are hundreds of beautiful wild swimming sites across the UK to explore. This blog post has essential tips and advice if you’re thinking of dipping your feet in the cool water of Britain’s beaches, lakes and rivers. Read our tips on reducing your risk of becoming ill …

Latest GP platform incorporates AI in care planning, documentation A new AI-driven practice management platform has been launched in Australia. The system called MediPortal automates tasks and offers smart suggestions for optimising a GP business. Based on a media release, it has features such as medical billing, an AI-powered care plan generator, and an AI scribe.  The software has been integrated …