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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]