Google's video platform YouTube announced today it is launching two new initiatives for healthcare content creators: AI-enabled Aloud, which dubs videos in various languages, and THE-IQ Creator Program, which expands upon the Tackling Health Equity Through Information Quality program, established last year.
THE-IQ program aimed to present videos with diverse perspectives and health information...
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC) is partnering with multinational pharmaceutical company Lupin Limited and the COPD Foundation to expand access to Tiotropium Bromide Inhalation Powder for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients in the U.S.
COPD is a chronic inflammatory lung disease that obstructs airflow from the lungs and causes breathing problems. Tiotropium Bromide treats...
GE HealthCare announced that it has codeveloped an AI algorithm with Mass General Brigham to help with scheduling predictions, including failure to show up to appointments, neglecting to schedule follow-up appointments and predicting late arrivals.
The first application of the algorithm, geared toward predicting missed care opportunities, is used within the schedule predictions dashboard of the...
Virtual opioid use disorder treatment company Bicycle Health is partnering with supermarket chain Albertsons to allow the telehealth company's providers to prescribe buprenorphine monthly injections for opioid use disorder that can be filled inside Albertsons pharmacies across 17 states.
Buprenorphine has been shown to reduce the risk of death after an opioid overdose.
Bicycle Health's doctors...
London-based multinational digital health firm Babylon has sold almost all of its U.K. assets to digital health company eMed Healthcare U.K., a subsidiary of U,S, company eMed, after announcing in early August that its deal to merge with Swiss tech firm MindMaze was canceled.
Babylon Healthcare Services Limited, the piece of Babylon purchased by eMed and the bulk of what remained of Babylon...
Digital mental health company Headspace announced it is partnering with Intermountain Health’s value-based care subsidiary Castell to provide on-demand behavioral health services to select insurance plan members in Utah.
Headspace will be integrated into Castell's care model, and providers in the value-based care company will be able to directly refer members to Headspace for behavioral health...
In part two of our two-part series, Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. Representative and founder of The Kennedy Forum, and Nawal Roy, CEO and founder of global behavioral health data platform Holmusk, discuss with MobiHealthNews how coverage for mental health has changed since the signing of the parity act and what steps the partners are taking to help lawmakers draft even more effective bills to...
AI-enabled clinical trial design company QuantHealth announced it scored $15 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Pitango HealthTech and Bertelsmann Investments, bringing its total raise to $20 million.
The company, which recently expanded into the U.S. market, offers its AI-powered Clinical-Simulator, which predicts an individual's response to treatment during a clinical trial in order...
AI-backed remote monitoring and digital therapeutics company Biofourmis confirmed the company's cofounder Kuldeep Singh Rajput stepped down as its CEO just one month after the company laid off 120 employees worldwide, 48 of whom were in the U.S.
"He remains committed to providing support and advice to the company going forward," Biofourmis told MobiHealthNews in an email. "We thank Kuldeep for...
Senior-focused technology company Intuition Robotics, which offers an AI-powered care companion robot for seniors experiencing loneliness, announced it closed a $25 million funding round, which includes $20 million in venture capital and $5 million in debt.
The round was led by Woven Capital, the growth fund of Toyota, with participation from OurCrowd, Toyota Ventures, Western Technology...
