WIRED HEALTH IS BACK FOR THE 5TH YEAR RUNNING:
THE WIRED EVENT DEDICATED TO DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY’S TRANSFORMATIVE IMPACT ON THE HEALTH SECTOR 15 March 2022 Milan, 7 March 2022 – For the fifth consecutive year, Wired Health – the Wired event sponsored by the City of Milan and dedicated to digital technology’s transformative impact on the health sector – will return on the 15th […]
XRHealth and Reducept join forces to launch VR therapy for pain management
XRHealth, the developer of therapeutic and extended reality apps, recently announced its collaboration with Reducept to develop its VR therapy offering for pain management. Through Virtual Reality, patients are able to engage in exercises that teach chronic pain sufferers to better manage their pain, potentially reducing the need for medication. Reducept’s VR Game follows a […]
Komodo Health Announces Acquisition of Breakaway Partners to Improve Patient Journey
Komodo Health recently announced the acquisition of Breakaway Partners with the goal of creating the industry’s first commercial prescription drug access solution based on a comprehensive, real-time view of actual outcomes and costs. By merging Komodo’s Healthcare Map and software suite with Breakaway Partners’ formulary data, policy criteria and analytics software, the partnership will deliver […]
Peloton announces the gamification of its famous bike workouts
Stationary bike company Peloton has announced plans to enter the video game business with an in-app video game temporarily called Lanebreak. A members-only beta is expected to launch in the winter of 2021 and the game will be officially available to the public in 2022. Now in beta, the new program is designed to gamify […]
Agilisys to integrate its visionary data platform into Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust recently announced its partnership with Agilisys to integrate a state-of-the-art data platform programme that will enable the Trust to effectively drive the digitisation of its care provision. Treating over 1.5 million patients each year, including over 200,000 emergency patients, Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest Trusts in the […]
Swedish digital health start-up Doktor.se secures a further €29.5 million for the global expansion of its services.
The startup Stockholm-based Doktor.se has secured €29.5 million in funding from Chinese technology group Tencent Holdings. Of the total amount raised, €23 million will be new capital and €6.5 million will come from existing shareholders, to be operating in more than seven countries by end of 2021. The funding comes in the form of an […]
mhealth unveils myOp, an app with the potential to halve post-surgery complication rates
Healthcare app pioneer mhealth has partnered with the University Hospital of Southampton to create myOp, a high-potential app that aims to halve post-surgical complication rates and improve recovery times for even the most at-risk patients before surgery. Up to 30% of patients experience complications after surgery, leading to an overall increase in healthcare costs, hospital […]
Student mental health start-up Mantra Health expands its offering to include teletherapy services for bipolar I disorder
Student-focused New York-based Mantra Health recently unveiled a new programme to support people with bipolar I disorder, just over a year after adding support for patients with bipolar II disorder to its platform. The healthtech company is offering the solution as part of an integration with its customers’ university health services, paving the way towards […]
SWORD Health secures $85 million in Series C funding to further boost its digital MSK offering
Earlier this month, digital musculoskeletal care startup SWORD Health announced $85 million in Series C funding that will go toward continued growth of its digital solution. The announcement comes about six months after the company closed its $25 million Series B funding round. Led by General Catalyst with participation from BOND, Highmark Ventures, BPEA, Khosla […]
Moletest offers clinicians an innovative, CE-marked melanoma screening test
Moletest, an Edinburgh-based healthtech company, is offering nomela, a CE-marked screening test for pigmented skin lesions suspected of melanoma, to healthcare professionals nationwide. The solution aims to offer healthcare providers the ability to reduce dermatology referrals to secondary care through its rapid process involving the taking of high-quality images and the provision of immediate analysis […]
Afon Technology unveils wearable, non-invasive blood glucose sensor
photo credit: Afon Technology New images have been released of the world’s first real-time, non-invasive, wearable blood glucose sensor. The device, designed to be placed inside the user’s wrist, uses bluetooth to send glucose level information to a companion app that displays the wearer’s blood glucose trends and reports high or low glucose levels and […]
Lifelight® partners with Open Telehealth to optimise Population Health Management platform
Lifelight and Open Telehealth (OTH.io) announced the beginning of a promising partnership that will result in the integration of Lifelight’s vital signs monitoring into OTH.io, a comprehensive and robust remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform for healthcare professionals that enables remote access to care for thousands of patients worldwide. In the wake of the pandemic and […]
Epipole contributes its tech to a €1.1 million collaborative project for the development of an ICP diagnostic technology solution
The project, funded by the Eureka Eurostars program, is a collaboration between Epipole, the Danish ICP Statumanu and the University of Southern Denmark. The objective is to develop an efficient technological solution for the diagnosis of intracranial pressure (ICP). What is intracranial pressure? Intracranial pressure is an increasing pressure inside the skull that usually results […]
Pear Therapeutics to go public in a $1.6 billion SPAC transaction to expand its DTx offering
Pear Therapeutics announced plans to go public by merging with Thimble Point Acquisition Corp. in a $1.6 billion special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The company said the move is expected to facilitate commercialisation and expansion. According to the announcement, the newly merged company will operate under the name Pear Holding Corp and will be listed […]
Thymia raises $1.1m for video game-inspired tool to assess and track depression
Thymia has raised a £780k/$1.1m pre-seed round to scale its platform to assess for and monitor depression. The Thymia technology removes the subjectivity from mental health assessments: instead of answering questionnaires, patients play specially designed video games which use cutting-edge Neuropsychology, Linguistics and Machine Learning to detect signs of depression, as well as monitor whether […]
Revolab’s at-home blood testing digital platform is gaining momentum for expansion
Revolab, winner of the 2020 EIT Digital Venture Program, is ready to expand its at-home blood testing kit and platform across Europe following CE mark approval for its solution. In less than a year, the Lithuanian startup centered on self-monitoring of the user’s overall physical well-being has gone from inception to closing a seed round […]
Hephaï files patent that improves inhaler use
Earlier this month, Paris-based Hephaï filed a patent application covering the software technology used in its digital educational tool, which was designed to optimise inhaler use. The patent – the first filed by Hephaï – aims to protect its digital platform, designed to assist patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in gaining […]
AmalgamRx secures CE Mark for its insulin titration algorithm
Digital therapeutics company AmalgamRx recently announced that it has received EU CE Mark approval for its insulin titration algorithm, called iSage Rx, and its white-label variants, and concluded a commercialisation agreement with Novo Nordisk. The green light for operation in the EU market comes more than four years after FDA approval in the U.S. for […]
Newsweek’s World’s Best Smart Hospitals 2021 Humanitas ranked first Italian hospital
Out of 250 hospitals from 26 different countries, assessed according to the level of digital integration, development of remote services and use of Artificial Intelligence, Humanitas ranks first among Italians. An ongoing trend accelerated by the pandemic, and which will increasingly represent the future of healthcare. IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas was ranked 1st among Italian […]
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CELEBRATING EUROPE’S HEALTHCARE STARS AND STARTUPS An interactive one-day digital event that brings together: industry’s disruptors decision makers and brightest minds as speakers From the MEDICAL, LIFE SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY sectors. For discovering how blended technology and innovation will SHAPE THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE. Join us on 15 June 2021 VIRTUAL from anywhere in the world! Link […]
PathAI raises $165 million in Series C funding round for its diagnostic and drug development software
Powered by machine learning and deep learning technologies, PathAI‘s solution not only identifies biomarkers of disease but is also able to predict responses to treatments, while continuously advancing and improving the work of pathologists and pharmaceutical researchers. PathAI‘s promising solution has so far secured 3 multi-million funding rounds and is backed by industry-leading partners. Launched […]
Swedish group Doktor24 raises €40 million for European expansion and platform development
Doktor24 Group, consisting of digital health company Platform24 and care provider Doktor24, has announced that it has raised around €40m in a latest funding round that will allow it to expand in Europe and further develop its solution. Founded in 2016, the Stockholm-based group promised to create accessible and sustainable care with a focus on […]
Europe’s first digital health account, hi.health, is revolutionising insurance and solving the cash flow challenge of private insurance
Universal healthcare is the norm in European countries, but it is not always comprehensive, which is why 26.8 million people in Germany alone have some kind of supplementary insurance, from hospital stays to dental work. While statutory health insurance programmes provide a direct route between government agencies and health care providers regarding costs, private insurance […]
Veri announces seed round of 4 million USD for further development of its solution to tackle metabolism issues
Earlier this month, Finnish healthtech Veri announced the successful closing of its 4 million USD seeding round. The round was led by PROFounders, and closely followed by Lifeline Ventures, Accel with angel investors like Johannes Schildt (CEO and co-founder of Kry/Livi) and Kristian Ranta (CEO and co-founder of Meru Health). While the round also includes […]
Google strikes deal with hospital chain to use patient data to develop healthcare algorithms
The company will access and store anonymised data from patients’ medical records and Internet-connected medical devices. The collaboration will allow Google to access anonymous patient records from HCA, which operates 181 hospitals and more than 2,000 healthcare sites in 21 states, to develop healthcare algorithms for the channel. The data will be used to develop […]
Epigenetic factors in cancer can now be identified by a machine learning system
Scientists have developed an innovative machine learning method that can accurately identify epigenetic factors in cancers. The collaborative study by researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian and the New York Genome Center (NYGC), published in Cancer discovery, has resulted in an innovative machine learning method that can accurately identify the genetic changes that cause […]
VR mental health treatment eases COVID-19 vaccination process for needle phobics
The NHS has launched a free VR-based treatment plan to help patients overcome their fear of needles. As the COVID-19 vaccination process continues in the UK, Vita Health Group and the NHS have joined forces to provide patients suffering from trypanophobia – the fear of needles – with techniques and strategies to overcome their fear […]
Deep learning CT scanners deployed at Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh to revolutionise support for radiographers and radiologists
Canon Medical has recently deployed two AI-enabled CT scanners at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, a leading teaching hospital, to optimise a wide range of clinical procedures. Using deep learning reconstruction technology, the tools are powered by an advanced intelligent Clear-IQ Engine (AiCE) to deliver high-quality medical imaging in record time, addressing the time-to-patient demand […]
Eli Lilly partners with Roche, Dexcom, Glooko and others for diabetes-focused integrations
Earlier this month, Ely Lilly announced that diabetes management companies Dexcom, Glooko, myDiabby Healthcare and Roche will integrate the pharma giant’s Tempo pen and Tempo Smart Button into their respective software platforms and/or medical devices. These agreements will optimise the offering of the above-mentioned diabetes products and services, which will now be able to collect […]
Highlights: Caresyntax raises €83 million for surgical AI tool, InterSystems partners with Cognetivity and other latest news.
CARESYNTAX raises €83 million in a Series C funding round for the development of its AI-based surgical tool. German healthtech company Caresyntax has raised €82.8 million in a Series C funding round. This latest round, led by PFM Health Sciences LP, Optum Ventures, Intel Capital and Lauxera Capital Partners, is one of the largest ever […]
Signia launches Active Pro range to combat hearing aid stigma
Earlier this month, leading hearing aid company Signia announced the launch of its new Active Pro range. This groundbreaking new hearing aid combines innovative technology with discretion and design. The vision of the new range is to combat the stigma of hearing aids and provide people with hearing loss with a stylish and practical solution. […]
Headway raises $70 million in Series B funding round to develop its mental health platform
The pandemic has certainly highlighted the importance of mental health. Covid-19 has brought many people down with illness or worse, but it has also brought increased isolation, economic uncertainty and many other kinds of disappointment, and all of this has had a ripple effect on our collective and individual state of mind. Headway focuses on […]
Fitness ring company Oura secures $100 million in Series C funding
Oura, a Finnish manufacturer of wearable fitness devices, has experienced explosive growth over the past two years. With the pandemic freezing professional sports for all of 2020, a number of major leagues have embraced the ring, including the NBA, WNBA, UFC and NASCAR. Initially differentiated by its shape, the Oura Ring has already been sold […]
Swiss startup Spiden secures €14.85 million in its latest funding round for the development of its optical technology-based blood diagnostic platform.
Spiden, a visionary in healthtech, has developed a technology platform powered by light and AI to analyse blood, urine and other bodily fluids for the first time in a non-destructive manner and in real time. Its latest round of funding was led by Ornament Health, a developer of digital health apps, followed by Geberit, a […]
Halma acquires PeriGen to position itself in the perinatal and prenatal health space
Earlier this month, UK-based Halma announced the acquisition of AI company PeriGen for €48 million. PeriGen will continue to focus on a clinical decision support tool for perinatal care. This tool has been designed to help clinicians interpret complex data. It allows for central monitoring and patient census, as well as bedside monitoring. Founded in […]
Proximie secures $38m in Series B funding round for AR surgery
London-based Proximie, which enables surgeons to share clinical practices through AR, has secured US$38 million to further develop its healthtech platform. F-Prime Capital led the Series B round, followed by Questa Capital, Eight Roads, Maverick Ventures, Global Ventures, BECO Capital and Cedar Mundi Ventures. This round brings the company’s total funding to $49 million. Founded […]
Altair Medical raises £2.25 million in pre-series A funding round for the development of its respiratory sensor
Altair Medical is making an impactful entry into the healthtech market after raising £2.25 million in a pre-series A funding round to further develop its respiratory sensor and real-time monitoring platform. Powered by AI, the solution detects and alerts users to adverse events in a range of respiratory conditions, contributing to earlier detection of respiratory […]
Alan secures $220m in latest funding round to further boost its health insurance and health app.
Paris-based Alan has raised €185 million in its latest funding round, bringing its valuation to €1.4 billion. New investors Coatue, Dragoneer and Exor led the round, which also included existing investors Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital and Temasek. The startup has been growing at a steady but not-so-slow pace. In 2016 it had just obtained approval […]
Slush and AstraZeneca To Double Down Shared Activities In 2021
Slush, a global startup movement and a not-for-profit community, announced a partnership, with a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. The collaboration helps Slush’s mission of helping the next generation groundbreaking founders and AstraZeneca’s pioneering work in the healthcare landscape to improve patients’ lives and push the boundaries of science. Slush and AstraZeneca’s collaboration started initially […]
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WIRED HEALTH IS BACK FOR THE 5TH YEAR RUNNING:
THE WIRED EVENT DEDICATED TO DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY’S TRANSFORMATIVE IMPACT ON THE HEALTH SECTOR 15 March 2022 Milan, 7 March 2022 – For the fifth consecutive year, Wired Health – the Wired event sponsored by the City of Milan and dedicated to digital technology’s transformative impact on the health sector – will return on the 15th […]
XRHealth and Reducept join forces to launch VR therapy for pain management
XRHealth, the developer of therapeutic and extended reality apps, recently announced its collaboration with Reducept to develop its VR therapy offering for pain management. Through Virtual Reality, patients are able to engage in exercises that teach chronic pain sufferers to better manage their pain, potentially reducing the need for medication. Reducept’s VR Game follows a […]
Komodo Health Announces Acquisition of Breakaway Partners to Improve Patient Journey
Komodo Health recently announced the acquisition of Breakaway Partners with the goal of creating the industry’s first commercial prescription drug access solution based on a comprehensive, real-time view of actual outcomes and costs. By merging Komodo’s Healthcare Map and software suite with Breakaway Partners’ formulary data, policy criteria and analytics software, the partnership will deliver […]
Peloton announces the gamification of its famous bike workouts
Stationary bike company Peloton has announced plans to enter the video game business with an in-app video game temporarily called Lanebreak. A members-only beta is expected to launch in the winter of 2021 and the game will be officially available to the public in 2022. Now in beta, the new program is designed to gamify […]
Agilisys to integrate its visionary data platform into Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust recently announced its partnership with Agilisys to integrate a state-of-the-art data platform programme that will enable the Trust to effectively drive the digitisation of its care provision. Treating over 1.5 million patients each year, including over 200,000 emergency patients, Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest Trusts in the […]
Swedish digital health start-up Doktor.se secures a further €29.5 million for the global expansion of its services.
The startup Stockholm-based Doktor.se has secured €29.5 million in funding from Chinese technology group Tencent Holdings. Of the total amount raised, €23 million will be new capital and €6.5 million will come from existing shareholders, to be operating in more than seven countries by end of 2021. The funding comes in the form of an […]
mhealth unveils myOp, an app with the potential to halve post-surgery complication rates
Healthcare app pioneer mhealth has partnered with the University Hospital of Southampton to create myOp, a high-potential app that aims to halve post-surgical complication rates and improve recovery times for even the most at-risk patients before surgery. Up to 30% of patients experience complications after surgery, leading to an overall increase in healthcare costs, hospital […]
Student mental health start-up Mantra Health expands its offering to include teletherapy services for bipolar I disorder
Student-focused New York-based Mantra Health recently unveiled a new programme to support people with bipolar I disorder, just over a year after adding support for patients with bipolar II disorder to its platform. The healthtech company is offering the solution as part of an integration with its customers’ university health services, paving the way towards […]
SWORD Health secures $85 million in Series C funding to further boost its digital MSK offering
Earlier this month, digital musculoskeletal care startup SWORD Health announced $85 million in Series C funding that will go toward continued growth of its digital solution. The announcement comes about six months after the company closed its $25 million Series B funding round. Led by General Catalyst with participation from BOND, Highmark Ventures, BPEA, Khosla […]
Moletest offers clinicians an innovative, CE-marked melanoma screening test
Moletest, an Edinburgh-based healthtech company, is offering nomela, a CE-marked screening test for pigmented skin lesions suspected of melanoma, to healthcare professionals nationwide. The solution aims to offer healthcare providers the ability to reduce dermatology referrals to secondary care through its rapid process involving the taking of high-quality images and the provision of immediate analysis […]
WIRED HEALTH IS BACK FOR THE 5TH YEAR RUNNING:
THE WIRED EVENT DEDICATED TO DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY’S TRANSFORMATIVE IMPACT ON THE HEALTH SECTOR 15 March 2022 Milan, 7 March 2022 – For the fifth consecutive year, Wired Health – the Wired event sponsored by the City of Milan and dedicated to digital technology’s transformative impact on the health sector – will return on the 15th […]
XRHealth and Reducept join forces to launch VR therapy for pain management
XRHealth, the developer of therapeutic and extended reality apps, recently announced its collaboration with Reducept to develop its VR therapy offering for pain management. Through Virtual Reality, patients are able to engage in exercises that teach chronic pain sufferers to better manage their pain, potentially reducing the need for medication. Reducept’s VR Game follows a […]
Komodo Health Announces Acquisition of Breakaway Partners to Improve Patient Journey
Komodo Health recently announced the acquisition of Breakaway Partners with the goal of creating the industry’s first commercial prescription drug access solution based on a comprehensive, real-time view of actual outcomes and costs. By merging Komodo’s Healthcare Map and software suite with Breakaway Partners’ formulary data, policy criteria and analytics software, the partnership will deliver […]
Peloton announces the gamification of its famous bike workouts
Stationary bike company Peloton has announced plans to enter the video game business with an in-app video game temporarily called Lanebreak. A members-only beta is expected to launch in the winter of 2021 and the game will be officially available to the public in 2022. Now in beta, the new program is designed to gamify […]
Agilisys to integrate its visionary data platform into Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust recently announced its partnership with Agilisys to integrate a state-of-the-art data platform programme that will enable the Trust to effectively drive the digitisation of its care provision. Treating over 1.5 million patients each year, including over 200,000 emergency patients, Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest Trusts in the […]
Swedish digital health start-up Doktor.se secures a further €29.5 million for the global expansion of its services.
The startup Stockholm-based Doktor.se has secured €29.5 million in funding from Chinese technology group Tencent Holdings. Of the total amount raised, €23 million will be new capital and €6.5 million will come from existing shareholders, to be operating in more than seven countries by end of 2021. The funding comes in the form of an […]
mhealth unveils myOp, an app with the potential to halve post-surgery complication rates
Healthcare app pioneer mhealth has partnered with the University Hospital of Southampton to create myOp, a high-potential app that aims to halve post-surgical complication rates and improve recovery times for even the most at-risk patients before surgery. Up to 30% of patients experience complications after surgery, leading to an overall increase in healthcare costs, hospital […]
Student mental health start-up Mantra Health expands its offering to include teletherapy services for bipolar I disorder
Student-focused New York-based Mantra Health recently unveiled a new programme to support people with bipolar I disorder, just over a year after adding support for patients with bipolar II disorder to its platform. The healthtech company is offering the solution as part of an integration with its customers’ university health services, paving the way towards […]
SWORD Health secures $85 million in Series C funding to further boost its digital MSK offering
Earlier this month, digital musculoskeletal care startup SWORD Health announced $85 million in Series C funding that will go toward continued growth of its digital solution. The announcement comes about six months after the company closed its $25 million Series B funding round. Led by General Catalyst with participation from BOND, Highmark Ventures, BPEA, Khosla […]
Moletest offers clinicians an innovative, CE-marked melanoma screening test
Moletest, an Edinburgh-based healthtech company, is offering nomela, a CE-marked screening test for pigmented skin lesions suspected of melanoma, to healthcare professionals nationwide. The solution aims to offer healthcare providers the ability to reduce dermatology referrals to secondary care through its rapid process involving the taking of high-quality images and the provision of immediate analysis […]
WIRED HEALTH IS BACK FOR THE 5TH YEAR RUNNING:
THE WIRED EVENT DEDICATED TO DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY’S TRANSFORMATIVE IMPACT ON THE HEALTH SECTOR 15 March 2022 Milan, 7 March 2022 – For the fifth consecutive year, Wired Health – the Wired event sponsored by the City of Milan and dedicated to digital technology’s transformative impact on the health sector – will return on the 15th […]
XRHealth and Reducept join forces to launch VR therapy for pain management
XRHealth, the developer of therapeutic and extended reality apps, recently announced its collaboration with Reducept to develop its VR therapy offering for pain management. Through Virtual Reality, patients are able to engage in exercises that teach chronic pain sufferers to better manage their pain, potentially reducing the need for medication. Reducept’s VR Game follows a […]
Komodo Health Announces Acquisition of Breakaway Partners to Improve Patient Journey
Komodo Health recently announced the acquisition of Breakaway Partners with the goal of creating the industry’s first commercial prescription drug access solution based on a comprehensive, real-time view of actual outcomes and costs. By merging Komodo’s Healthcare Map and software suite with Breakaway Partners’ formulary data, policy criteria and analytics software, the partnership will deliver […]
Peloton announces the gamification of its famous bike workouts
Stationary bike company Peloton has announced plans to enter the video game business with an in-app video game temporarily called Lanebreak. A members-only beta is expected to launch in the winter of 2021 and the game will be officially available to the public in 2022. Now in beta, the new program is designed to gamify […]
Agilisys to integrate its visionary data platform into Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust recently announced its partnership with Agilisys to integrate a state-of-the-art data platform programme that will enable the Trust to effectively drive the digitisation of its care provision. Treating over 1.5 million patients each year, including over 200,000 emergency patients, Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest Trusts in the […]
Swedish digital health start-up Doktor.se secures a further €29.5 million for the global expansion of its services.
The startup Stockholm-based Doktor.se has secured €29.5 million in funding from Chinese technology group Tencent Holdings. Of the total amount raised, €23 million will be new capital and €6.5 million will come from existing shareholders, to be operating in more than seven countries by end of 2021. The funding comes in the form of an […]
mhealth unveils myOp, an app with the potential to halve post-surgery complication rates
Healthcare app pioneer mhealth has partnered with the University Hospital of Southampton to create myOp, a high-potential app that aims to halve post-surgical complication rates and improve recovery times for even the most at-risk patients before surgery. Up to 30% of patients experience complications after surgery, leading to an overall increase in healthcare costs, hospital […]
Student mental health start-up Mantra Health expands its offering to include teletherapy services for bipolar I disorder
Student-focused New York-based Mantra Health recently unveiled a new programme to support people with bipolar I disorder, just over a year after adding support for patients with bipolar II disorder to its platform. The healthtech company is offering the solution as part of an integration with its customers’ university health services, paving the way towards […]
SWORD Health secures $85 million in Series C funding to further boost its digital MSK offering
Earlier this month, digital musculoskeletal care startup SWORD Health announced $85 million in Series C funding that will go toward continued growth of its digital solution. The announcement comes about six months after the company closed its $25 million Series B funding round. Led by General Catalyst with participation from BOND, Highmark Ventures, BPEA, Khosla […]
Moletest offers clinicians an innovative, CE-marked melanoma screening test
Moletest, an Edinburgh-based healthtech company, is offering nomela, a CE-marked screening test for pigmented skin lesions suspected of melanoma, to healthcare professionals nationwide. The solution aims to offer healthcare providers the ability to reduce dermatology referrals to secondary care through its rapid process involving the taking of high-quality images and the provision of immediate analysis […]
Afon Technology unveils wearable, non-invasive blood glucose sensor
photo credit: Afon Technology New images have been released of the world’s first real-time, non-invasive, wearable blood glucose sensor. The device, designed to be placed inside the user’s wrist, uses bluetooth to send glucose level information to a companion app that displays the wearer’s blood glucose trends and reports high or low glucose levels and […]
Lifelight® partners with Open Telehealth to optimise Population Health Management platform
Lifelight and Open Telehealth (OTH.io) announced the beginning of a promising partnership that will result in the integration of Lifelight’s vital signs monitoring into OTH.io, a comprehensive and robust remote patient monitoring (RPM) platform for healthcare professionals that enables remote access to care for thousands of patients worldwide. In the wake of the pandemic and […]
Epipole contributes its tech to a €1.1 million collaborative project for the development of an ICP diagnostic technology solution
The project, funded by the Eureka Eurostars program, is a collaboration between Epipole, the Danish ICP Statumanu and the University of Southern Denmark. The objective is to develop an efficient technological solution for the diagnosis of intracranial pressure (ICP). What is intracranial pressure? Intracranial pressure is an increasing pressure inside the skull that usually results […]
Pear Therapeutics to go public in a $1.6 billion SPAC transaction to expand its DTx offering
Pear Therapeutics announced plans to go public by merging with Thimble Point Acquisition Corp. in a $1.6 billion special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The company said the move is expected to facilitate commercialisation and expansion. According to the announcement, the newly merged company will operate under the name Pear Holding Corp and will be listed […]
Thymia raises $1.1m for video game-inspired tool to assess and track depression
Thymia has raised a £780k/$1.1m pre-seed round to scale its platform to assess for and monitor depression. The Thymia technology removes the subjectivity from mental health assessments: instead of answering questionnaires, patients play specially designed video games which use cutting-edge Neuropsychology, Linguistics and Machine Learning to detect signs of depression, as well as monitor whether […]
Revolab’s at-home blood testing digital platform is gaining momentum for expansion
Revolab, winner of the 2020 EIT Digital Venture Program, is ready to expand its at-home blood testing kit and platform across Europe following CE mark approval for its solution. In less than a year, the Lithuanian startup centered on self-monitoring of the user’s overall physical well-being has gone from inception to closing a seed round […]
Hephaï files patent that improves inhaler use
Earlier this month, Paris-based Hephaï filed a patent application covering the software technology used in its digital educational tool, which was designed to optimise inhaler use. The patent – the first filed by Hephaï – aims to protect its digital platform, designed to assist patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in gaining […]
AmalgamRx secures CE Mark for its insulin titration algorithm
Digital therapeutics company AmalgamRx recently announced that it has received EU CE Mark approval for its insulin titration algorithm, called iSage Rx, and its white-label variants, and concluded a commercialisation agreement with Novo Nordisk. The green light for operation in the EU market comes more than four years after FDA approval in the U.S. for […]
Newsweek’s World’s Best Smart Hospitals 2021 Humanitas ranked first Italian hospital
Out of 250 hospitals from 26 different countries, assessed according to the level of digital integration, development of remote services and use of Artificial Intelligence, Humanitas ranks first among Italians. An ongoing trend accelerated by the pandemic, and which will increasingly represent the future of healthcare. IRCCS Istituto Clinico Humanitas was ranked 1st among Italian […]
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WIRED HEALTH IS BACK FOR THE 5TH YEAR RUNNING:
THE WIRED EVENT DEDICATED TO DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY’S TRANSFORMATIVE IMPACT ON THE HEALTH SECTOR 15 March 2022 Milan, 7 March 2022 – For the fifth consecutive year, Wired Health – the Wired event sponsored by the City of Milan and dedicated to digital technology’s transformative impact on the health sector – will return on the 15th […]
XRHealth and Reducept join forces to launch VR therapy for pain management
XRHealth, the developer of therapeutic and extended reality apps, recently announced its collaboration with Reducept to develop its VR therapy offering for pain management. Through Virtual Reality, patients are able to engage in exercises that teach chronic pain sufferers to better manage their pain, potentially reducing the need for medication. Reducept’s VR Game follows a […]
Komodo Health Announces Acquisition of Breakaway Partners to Improve Patient Journey
Komodo Health recently announced the acquisition of Breakaway Partners with the goal of creating the industry’s first commercial prescription drug access solution based on a comprehensive, real-time view of actual outcomes and costs. By merging Komodo’s Healthcare Map and software suite with Breakaway Partners’ formulary data, policy criteria and analytics software, the partnership will deliver […]
Peloton announces the gamification of its famous bike workouts
Stationary bike company Peloton has announced plans to enter the video game business with an in-app video game temporarily called Lanebreak. A members-only beta is expected to launch in the winter of 2021 and the game will be officially available to the public in 2022. Now in beta, the new program is designed to gamify […]
Agilisys to integrate its visionary data platform into Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust recently announced its partnership with Agilisys to integrate a state-of-the-art data platform programme that will enable the Trust to effectively drive the digitisation of its care provision. Treating over 1.5 million patients each year, including over 200,000 emergency patients, Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest Trusts in the […]
Swedish digital health start-up Doktor.se secures a further €29.5 million for the global expansion of its services.
The startup Stockholm-based Doktor.se has secured €29.5 million in funding from Chinese technology group Tencent Holdings. Of the total amount raised, €23 million will be new capital and €6.5 million will come from existing shareholders, to be operating in more than seven countries by end of 2021. The funding comes in the form of an […]
mhealth unveils myOp, an app with the potential to halve post-surgery complication rates
Healthcare app pioneer mhealth has partnered with the University Hospital of Southampton to create myOp, a high-potential app that aims to halve post-surgical complication rates and improve recovery times for even the most at-risk patients before surgery. Up to 30% of patients experience complications after surgery, leading to an overall increase in healthcare costs, hospital […]
Student mental health start-up Mantra Health expands its offering to include teletherapy services for bipolar I disorder
Student-focused New York-based Mantra Health recently unveiled a new programme to support people with bipolar I disorder, just over a year after adding support for patients with bipolar II disorder to its platform. The healthtech company is offering the solution as part of an integration with its customers’ university health services, paving the way towards […]
SWORD Health secures $85 million in Series C funding to further boost its digital MSK offering
Earlier this month, digital musculoskeletal care startup SWORD Health announced $85 million in Series C funding that will go toward continued growth of its digital solution. The announcement comes about six months after the company closed its $25 million Series B funding round. Led by General Catalyst with participation from BOND, Highmark Ventures, BPEA, Khosla […]
Moletest offers clinicians an innovative, CE-marked melanoma screening test
Moletest, an Edinburgh-based healthtech company, is offering nomela, a CE-marked screening test for pigmented skin lesions suspected of melanoma, to healthcare professionals nationwide. The solution aims to offer healthcare providers the ability to reduce dermatology referrals to secondary care through its rapid process involving the taking of high-quality images and the provision of immediate analysis […]
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WIRED HEALTH IS BACK FOR THE 5TH YEAR RUNNING:
THE WIRED EVENT DEDICATED TO DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY’S TRANSFORMATIVE IMPACT ON THE HEALTH SECTOR 15 March 2022 Milan, 7 March 2022 – For the fifth consecutive year, Wired Health – the Wired event sponsored by the City of Milan and dedicated to digital technology’s transformative impact on the health sector – will return on the 15th […]
XRHealth and Reducept join forces to launch VR therapy for pain management
XRHealth, the developer of therapeutic and extended reality apps, recently announced its collaboration with Reducept to develop its VR therapy offering for pain management. Through Virtual Reality, patients are able to engage in exercises that teach chronic pain sufferers to better manage their pain, potentially reducing the need for medication. Reducept’s VR Game follows a […]
Komodo Health Announces Acquisition of Breakaway Partners to Improve Patient Journey
Komodo Health recently announced the acquisition of Breakaway Partners with the goal of creating the industry’s first commercial prescription drug access solution based on a comprehensive, real-time view of actual outcomes and costs. By merging Komodo’s Healthcare Map and software suite with Breakaway Partners’ formulary data, policy criteria and analytics software, the partnership will deliver […]
Peloton announces the gamification of its famous bike workouts
Stationary bike company Peloton has announced plans to enter the video game business with an in-app video game temporarily called Lanebreak. A members-only beta is expected to launch in the winter of 2021 and the game will be officially available to the public in 2022. Now in beta, the new program is designed to gamify […]
Agilisys to integrate its visionary data platform into Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust recently announced its partnership with Agilisys to integrate a state-of-the-art data platform programme that will enable the Trust to effectively drive the digitisation of its care provision. Treating over 1.5 million patients each year, including over 200,000 emergency patients, Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest Trusts in the […]
Swedish digital health start-up Doktor.se secures a further €29.5 million for the global expansion of its services.
The startup Stockholm-based Doktor.se has secured €29.5 million in funding from Chinese technology group Tencent Holdings. Of the total amount raised, €23 million will be new capital and €6.5 million will come from existing shareholders, to be operating in more than seven countries by end of 2021. The funding comes in the form of an […]
mhealth unveils myOp, an app with the potential to halve post-surgery complication rates
Healthcare app pioneer mhealth has partnered with the University Hospital of Southampton to create myOp, a high-potential app that aims to halve post-surgical complication rates and improve recovery times for even the most at-risk patients before surgery. Up to 30% of patients experience complications after surgery, leading to an overall increase in healthcare costs, hospital […]
Student mental health start-up Mantra Health expands its offering to include teletherapy services for bipolar I disorder
Student-focused New York-based Mantra Health recently unveiled a new programme to support people with bipolar I disorder, just over a year after adding support for patients with bipolar II disorder to its platform. The healthtech company is offering the solution as part of an integration with its customers’ university health services, paving the way towards […]
SWORD Health secures $85 million in Series C funding to further boost its digital MSK offering
Earlier this month, digital musculoskeletal care startup SWORD Health announced $85 million in Series C funding that will go toward continued growth of its digital solution. The announcement comes about six months after the company closed its $25 million Series B funding round. Led by General Catalyst with participation from BOND, Highmark Ventures, BPEA, Khosla […]
Moletest offers clinicians an innovative, CE-marked melanoma screening test
Moletest, an Edinburgh-based healthtech company, is offering nomela, a CE-marked screening test for pigmented skin lesions suspected of melanoma, to healthcare professionals nationwide. The solution aims to offer healthcare providers the ability to reduce dermatology referrals to secondary care through its rapid process involving the taking of high-quality images and the provision of immediate analysis […]
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WIRED HEALTH IS BACK FOR THE 5TH YEAR RUNNING:
THE WIRED EVENT DEDICATED TO DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY’S TRANSFORMATIVE IMPACT ON THE HEALTH SECTOR 15 March 2022 Milan, 7 March 2022 – For the fifth consecutive year, Wired Health – the Wired event sponsored by the City of Milan and dedicated to digital technology’s transformative impact on the health sector – will return on the 15th […]
XRHealth and Reducept join forces to launch VR therapy for pain management
XRHealth, the developer of therapeutic and extended reality apps, recently announced its collaboration with Reducept to develop its VR therapy offering for pain management. Through Virtual Reality, patients are able to engage in exercises that teach chronic pain sufferers to better manage their pain, potentially reducing the need for medication. Reducept’s VR Game follows a […]
Komodo Health Announces Acquisition of Breakaway Partners to Improve Patient Journey
Komodo Health recently announced the acquisition of Breakaway Partners with the goal of creating the industry’s first commercial prescription drug access solution based on a comprehensive, real-time view of actual outcomes and costs. By merging Komodo’s Healthcare Map and software suite with Breakaway Partners’ formulary data, policy criteria and analytics software, the partnership will deliver […]
Peloton announces the gamification of its famous bike workouts
Stationary bike company Peloton has announced plans to enter the video game business with an in-app video game temporarily called Lanebreak. A members-only beta is expected to launch in the winter of 2021 and the game will be officially available to the public in 2022. Now in beta, the new program is designed to gamify […]
Agilisys to integrate its visionary data platform into Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust recently announced its partnership with Agilisys to integrate a state-of-the-art data platform programme that will enable the Trust to effectively drive the digitisation of its care provision. Treating over 1.5 million patients each year, including over 200,000 emergency patients, Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest Trusts in the […]
Swedish digital health start-up Doktor.se secures a further €29.5 million for the global expansion of its services.
The startup Stockholm-based Doktor.se has secured €29.5 million in funding from Chinese technology group Tencent Holdings. Of the total amount raised, €23 million will be new capital and €6.5 million will come from existing shareholders, to be operating in more than seven countries by end of 2021. The funding comes in the form of an […]
mhealth unveils myOp, an app with the potential to halve post-surgery complication rates
Healthcare app pioneer mhealth has partnered with the University Hospital of Southampton to create myOp, a high-potential app that aims to halve post-surgical complication rates and improve recovery times for even the most at-risk patients before surgery. Up to 30% of patients experience complications after surgery, leading to an overall increase in healthcare costs, hospital […]
Student mental health start-up Mantra Health expands its offering to include teletherapy services for bipolar I disorder
Student-focused New York-based Mantra Health recently unveiled a new programme to support people with bipolar I disorder, just over a year after adding support for patients with bipolar II disorder to its platform. The healthtech company is offering the solution as part of an integration with its customers’ university health services, paving the way towards […]
SWORD Health secures $85 million in Series C funding to further boost its digital MSK offering
Earlier this month, digital musculoskeletal care startup SWORD Health announced $85 million in Series C funding that will go toward continued growth of its digital solution. The announcement comes about six months after the company closed its $25 million Series B funding round. Led by General Catalyst with participation from BOND, Highmark Ventures, BPEA, Khosla […]
Moletest offers clinicians an innovative, CE-marked melanoma screening test
Moletest, an Edinburgh-based healthtech company, is offering nomela, a CE-marked screening test for pigmented skin lesions suspected of melanoma, to healthcare professionals nationwide. The solution aims to offer healthcare providers the ability to reduce dermatology referrals to secondary care through its rapid process involving the taking of high-quality images and the provision of immediate analysis […]
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