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By Nate MacLeitch, CEO of Quickblox In our latest survey, “AI Tool Adoption Healthcare (2025),” Quickblox discovered healthcare providers are moving from pilots to purpose when it comes to AI. We surveyed 101 healthcare leaders to determine where AI is taking hold and where it’s hitting resistance. Responses came from a wide cross-section of the [...]
US-based mental health provider Amae Health has raised US$25m in pre-empted Series B financing to expand its AI-enabled outpatient clinics for people living with severe mental illness (SMI), taking total funding to more than US$50m. The round was led by Altos Ventures, with participation from all existing investors, including Quiet Capital, Bling Capital, Cedars-Sinai Ventures, [...]
DoseMe has acquired Firstline, creating a single path from therapy choice to personalised dosing so clinicians can reach optimal care faster. Financial terms were not disclosed. Jupiter, Florida-based DoseMe is a portfolio company of Fairlong Capital. Firstline, based in Vancouver, Canada, provides clinical decision support used by healthcare organisations worldwide. Firstline’s mobile-first software makes infectious [...]
US-based obesity medicine specialist Knownwell has raised $25m in an oversubscribed, strategic-led round as it looks to scale its weight-inclusive primary care model nationwide. The financing was led by CVS Health Ventures, with participation from MassMutual Catalyst Fund, Intermountain Ventures and others. Existing investors a16z Bio + Health and Flare Capital Partners also joined the [...]
DocGo has acquired virtual care provider SteadyMD in a deal aimed at combining nationwide telehealth capabilities with DocGo’s technology-enabled mobile health and medical transportation services. The Nasdaq-listed company said the acquisition will enable it to offer a more comprehensive “last mile” care platform by pairing its in-the-field mobile clinicians with SteadyMD’s 50-state virtual workforce and [...]
AI is helping patients prepare for hip and knee replacement surgery, easing anxiety and providing answers about procedures on demand. A custom-tailored artificial intelligence (AI) platform trained on surgeon-approved educational content has shown positive results in supporting patients before and after total joint arthroplasty — a procedure to replace damaged joints with artificial implants. Researchers [...]
Odgers’ Chris Hamilton and Mike Drew discuss the rapid dominance of Big Tech in healthcare and what executive leaders can do to successfully navigate this landscape Imagine your health system is approached by a major tech company offering a “data-trust” layer that connects your electronic medical records to patients’ devices. The promise is seamless identity, [...]
Health Tech World explores the latest business developments in the world of health technology. AI to be trialled at across NHS screening Pioneering AI tools are to be tested in NHS screening services in order to enable quicker diagnoses and treatment for patients using a groundbreaking new cloud system. A new AI research screening platform [...]
Smith+Nephew (LSE:SN, NYSE:SNN), the global medical technology company, has announced findings from a newly published, first-of-its-kind comparative study of single-use negative pressure wound therapy (sNPWT) devices in orthopedic and cardiovascular surgery. Analysing real-world data from over 22,000 patients in the Premier PINC AI™ Healthcare Database, the analysis reveals that prophylactic use of PICO sNPWT (-80 [...]
Imprivata has announced the acquisition of Verosint, a leader in Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) solutions. The acquisition represents Imprivata’s latest strategic investment in modernising enterprise access management with solutions that deliver advanced, frictionless, and passwordless access for every user type, including frontline staff, knowledge workers, and third-party identities, while strengthening security, streamlining compliance, [...]
