Author: Daniel Onyango

b.well Connected Health, a Baltimore-based health technology company providing platform-enabled healthcare ecosystems, has launched configurable AI infrastructure to enable healthcare organizations to accelerate the adoption of AI for diverse use cases within their workflows. Led by Kristen Valdes (co-founder), Nathan Weems, Imran Qureshi, John Ostlund, and Dominic Devita, the company aims to help healthcare organizations simplify communication and data management through its digital health management platform. The new AI infrastructure is supported by the richest longitudinal datasets. This allows healthcare organizations to speed up the adoption of cutting-edge technology while maintaining data security, compliance, trust, and patient safety. With access…

CharmHealth, a California-based healthcare technology solution provider, is inviting more proposals for its 2024 Innovation Challenge as the application deadline approaches. The company invites healthcare innovators, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, students, and non-profits to present fresh technology ideas that can advance healthcare for the annual competition. Founded in 2007 by Dr. Pramila Srinivasan, the annual challenge allows individuals, groups, or organizations to showcase their unique healthcare inventions and innovations to prospective investors, partners, and incubators who can help advance them to commercialization. According to the company’s latest announcement, potential applicants have until 12:00 p.m. PDT on August 5 to submit their proposals. Anyone…

Researchers at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and Monash University have developed a new AI-powered smartphone app capable of diagnosing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) from uploaded photos of the infected area. As reported by AlfredHealth, the app allows users to upload photos of abnormal lesions, which are then processed using AI to detect STIs and other common genital skin illnesses. This brings hope for effortless STI diagnosis in the future. The app’s development framework was based on a database of over 5,000 collated images gathered with the help of patient volunteers and MSHC clinicians who gave prior consent for the…

A Duluth hospital offering a wide range of healthcare services, Essentia Health has deployed new surgical robots to provide minimally-invasive surgeries quickly, reducing the time patients take under anesthesia as well as recovery, according to a Senior Operations Supervisor for Surgery, Stacy Lund. Fox21 News reported that the company held a “Meet the Robots” last Tuesday and invited the community to have a first-hand interaction with the state-of-the-art equipment. Four different types of robots were on display, with surgeons asking questions about the AI-powered medical procedure assistants. The four robotic surgical tools displayed included the Da Vinci, the Monarch, the…

A medical technology company focused on developing and commercializing extracorporeal blood filtration devices, ExThera Medical, has made a groundbreaking breakthrough in the field of advanced pancreatic cancer treatment. Researchers had successfully deployed Seraph® 100 blood filtration media, a novel cancer treatment technology designed to remove Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) from pancreatic cancer patients’ bloodstream, according to ExThera Medical’s announcement on Thursday, July 18. This can potentially prevent the spread of cancer cells from the tissues where they are initially formed to other parts of the body. The published research results form a crucial foundation for the company’s revolutionary circulating tumor…

Researchers have unveiled a new AI system that can detect 13 cancers from tissue samples with 98% accuracy. According to a news report published by The Indian Express, Researchers from the University of Cambridge achieved the ground-breaking feat by developing binary and multiclass machine learning models, which were then used to identify several types of cancers from non-cancerous tissue samples. Using the AI-powered diagnostic system, the researchers identified 13 different types of cancers in their early development stages with 98.2% accuracy. The cancers were identified through changes in the DNA marks during early cancer development. This advancement in medical technology…

The European Commission has established the final text for the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA), which pushes for a human-centric approach and trustworthiness in the development and utilization of AI medical devices. Published in the Official Journal on 12 July, the AI Act is set to be law as of August 2, with the requirements for high-risk medical devices set to be law as of August 2, 2026. The AI Act, which was adopted by the European Parliament on 13 March, established a legal framework for the uptake of medical technologies such as in-vitro diagnostic devices (IVDs), medical devices, and other…

Lions Outback Vision, an innovative health technology program, has deployed a mobile AI-driven screening technology to detect diabetic retinopathy in people living in remote parts of Western Australia. As reported by Optometry Today (OT) on Sunday, July 14, 2024, the mobile service Warlu AI is being delivered to Pilbara under the Lions Outback Vision project founded by Professor Angus Turner of the University of Western Australia in response to the government’s Pilbara Challenge. The Pilbara Challenge, announced by the government of Western Australia in 2022, aims to find world-leading innovative medical research that can help solve the health service delivery…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has shown the potential to transform healthcare in multiple ways never achieved before— from improving early diagnostics to patient treatment and monitoring. Since the inception of robotics, advanced machine learning, and Large Language Models (LLMs) in the healthcare sector a few years ago, AI has become a major driving force in healthcare workflow automation. But could it replace nurses? This has been a major concern as a boom in AI applications takes healthcare by storm. Despite the exponential increase in AI integration into many healthcare systems and the ongoing use of generative AI based on Large Language…

Samsung Electronics, a global tech giant, has announced a new line of wearables that leverage the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance digital health monitoring and wellness for users. The new wearables include the Samsung Galaxy Ring, Galaxy Watch7, and Galaxy Watch Ultra, which leverage the revolutionary Galaxy AI to offer personalized insights as well as tailored health experiences, allowing them to understand their wellness through a holistic approach to digital health monitoring. According to the company’s announcement, the AI-powered Galaxy Ring comes with a full host of digital health and wellness features that help users track their well-being…

Researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) have made a remarkable advancement in personalized cancer treatment with a new predictive AI tool. According to research findings published in the journal Nature Cancer, researchers have developed an AI-powered tool that can determine the most suitable treatment pathway for cancer patients based on their messenger RNA profile. Known as DeepPT, the tool was developed in collaboration with researchers from the pharmaceutical company Pangea Biomed and the National Cancer Institute in America to help predict patients’ messenger RNA (mRNA) profiles for personalized cancer treatment. The mRNA is an essential chemical in protein production and…

Leading hospitals in Japan, Fujifilm, and Juntendo have developed an AI model that leverages hospital data to predict patients’ risk of falls. This system helps healthcare professionals determine suitable preventive measures based on percentages and risk factors. According to a news report by Mobihelth News, the team of researchers behind the risk-of-fall predicting AI leveraged the data from Fujifilm’s CITA Clinical Finder, a central data management platform for various hospital departments, to analyze and collate over 500 fall-associated features, including patients’ prescription histories and ages. The researchers then used the data to train an AI model to help predict patients’…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has affirmed AI’s potential to revolutionize global healthcare by improving accuracy and accessibility and cutting the cost of healthcare, allowing many people to access quality care globally. In a Facebook post on Sunday, July 7, the UN agency underscored AI’s transformative role in improving disease diagnostics, treatment, and prevention while also emphasizing the need for implementing transparency and ethical guidelines to ensure safer use of AI in the healthcare sector. Despite skepticism that surrounded the use of AI in the recent past as the potential of AI in healthcare was not yet imaginable, WHO has…

Florida-based AI-backed health tech company, SelfDecode has launched the world’s first precision health GPT to transform personalized health and well-being, empowering people to optimize their health through personalized guidance and support. Known as DecodyGPT, this revolutionary feature leverages the power of AI  and health data to provide personalized health-related guidance, insights and other solutions to users within seconds, just like the infamous OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other popular generative AI models. DecodyGPT is built on SelfDecode’s proprietary health technology featuring an advanced AI system trained on vast amounts of data sets from lab test results, genetic information, symptoms, conditions, lifestyle factors, and…

Recent research has shown that ChatGPT can give better responses to health-related questions than human physicians. The study, which was published in the JAMA Internal Medicine, was conducted by licensed healthcare professionals who compared ChatGPT-generated responses to health-related questions to those given by physicians to a certain level of accuracy and empathy. Surprisingly, ChatGPT responses turned out superior to those provided by actual physicians in 79% of the cases. In recent years, we have seen remarkable advancements in technology, with AI at the center stage of automation in nearly every sector of the economy due to its potential to revolutionize…

GE HealthCare, a leading medical technology company focusing on pharmaceutical diagnostics and digital solutions innovations, has joined forces with MediView XR Inc., a leading clinical augmented reality med-tech company, to launch the World’s first augmented reality-based interventional radiology suite for clinical use. Known as the OmnifyXR Interventional Suite, it features 3D anatomy model visualization, holographic heads-up display streaming live medical imaging, and advanced imaging technologies. The system has been installed at North Star Vascular and Interventional in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the first time to simplify the work of clinicians while also improving efficiency and accuracy in image-guided therapies. Based on…

A leading AI-powered health tech company, Anumana, has partnered with  InfoBionic.Ai, a digital health-focused company specializing in remote cardiac monitoring and diagnostic technology, to develop and commercialize revolutionary remote cardiac monitoring solutions. According to a joint press release, the initiative combines Anumana’s breakthrough ECG-AI™ technology (developed and tested in collaboration with Mayo Clinic) with  InfoBionic.Ai’s MoMe ARC® cardiac monitoring platforms to detect cardiac illnesses earlier in remote patient monitoring settings. With early disease detection, the patients can receive timely intervention and personalized care, improving the therapy outcomes. The new partnership between the two tech giants unlocks a new vista of…

Open Health, a UK-based health tech company, has partnered with a Singapore-based artificial intelligence (AI) and machine Learning (ML) startup, Fusion, to deliver AI-powered communications in the healthcare sector. According to the latest announcement, the collaboration will allow Open Health to integrate Fusion’s cutting-edge AI capabilities into its global client base of industry-leading pharmaceutical companies, mostly the top 50 pharmaceutical companies from across the globe. This partnership comes at a critical time when health tech companies are rapidly turning to advanced AI and machine learning technologies to extend access to their healthcare-focused platforms, improve efficiency, and cut down on operations-related…

Biomedical Engineers at RMIT University have developed an AI-powered mobile application that could help doctors detect early signs of stroke within seconds. The revolutionary software, which RMIT University researchers developed in collaboration with Brazil’s São Paulo State University, can immediately detect stroke by quickly analyzing facial expressions, including facial symmetry and muscle movements, raising hope for early stroke detection and improved treatment outcomes. According to the research findings published in April 2024 in the journal Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, the AI-backed tool has achieved an accuracy of 82% based on Kiss and Spread, with a sensitivity of 91%…

A new survey, Future Health Index 2024 survey has revealed that 88% of healthcare leaders believe that automation of repetitive tasks can help plug the staffing gap witnessed in the US healthcare system and increase access to care. The Future Health Index (FHI) survey was conducted by Royal Philips, a global health tech company exploring the prevailing challenges within the US healthcare staffing, and access, as well as innovative technology solutions being employed to address these issues. Titled Better Care for More People, the ninth annual report, also known as the Future Health Index 2024 report, explores the impact of…