What You Should Know:
- Proscia, a pathology AI company, has announced the next step in its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to address two of digital pathology’s most pressing challenges: managing surging data volumes and standardizing siloed data.
- The company has integrated its Concentriq® platform with AWS HealthImaging, providing laboratories and life sciences organizations with a cloud-native foundation to accelerate workflows and fuel AI-driven precision
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Why AI Isn’t Curing Disease, Yet: Crossing Pharma’s Valley of Death with Physical Intelligence
We were told AI would cure disease in years. That’s a fallacy.
Today, over 90% of clinical drug candidates still fail. It costs more than $2 billion and over a decade to bring a single drug to market. And now the industry faces a brutal paradox, which is the promise of exponential progress stuck inside a system governed by diminishing returns.
This is pharma’s version of Eroom’s Law, i.e. the inverse of Moore’s Law, where the return on drug development declines as science
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Peerbridge Health Raises $7M, Appoints MedTech Veteran Dan Reuvers to Board
What You Should Know:
- Peerbridge Health, a company transforming how heart disease is diagnosed has closed its latest fundraising round, raising $7M to support the commercial rollout of its new product.
- Additionally, it has submitted its next-generation wearable, the Cor MDx™, for FDA 510(k) clearance and appointed medical-technology executive Dan Reuvers to its Board of Directors. It is expected to launch later this year, pending regulatory clearance.
Strengthening
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Fay Becomes First Nutrition Service to Join Amazon Health Benefits Connector
What You Should Know:
- Fay, a dietitian platform, has become the first nutrition care service to join Amazon’s Health Benefits Connector.
- The strategic collaboration allows eligible Amazon customers to easily find and enroll in Fay’s personalized, insurance-covered nutrition care while browsing for wellness and nutrition services. Fay intelligently matches individuals with a registered dietitian based on their health goals, history, and insurance eligibility.
Unlocking
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Smarter Medication Management: The Shift from Polypharmacy to Personalized, Data-Driven Care
As older adults increasingly find themselves managing 10 to 15 medications—spanning prescriptions, over-the-counter drugs, and supplements—the urgency to refine medication management has never been greater. Over the last two decades, the average number of prescriptions for individuals 65 and older has doubled, driven by a mix of longer life expectancy, chronic disease management, symptom-based prescribing, and the common practice of layering additional medications
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Half of Consumers Will Abandon Health Products Lacking Clear Scientific Evidence, Survey Reveals
What You Should Know:
A new survey by Lindus Health, a clinical trial company, has reveals that transparency about side effects and long-term safety are the top factors Americans consider when buying health products.
- The survey, which asked 175 participants about their health-based purchasing behaviors, revealed a significant gap between what consumers want and the information provided by physicians and manufacturers.
- The findings show that less than 14% of respondents
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MedSetGo Raises $2.4M to Modernize Patient Care Transitions with AI
What You Should Know:
- MedSetGo, an AI-driven healthcare company secures $2.4M in seed funding led by TurboStart with participation from Gold House Ventures and several high-profile angel investors.
- The new funding will accelerate product development and hiring, with a focus on expanding the company's engineering, data science, and commercialization teams.
Redesigning Patient Care Journeys with AI
MedSetGo aims to use AI to redesign how patients move across the healthcare
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Mount Sinai Launches Cardiac Catheterization AI Research Lab
What You Should Know:
- Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital has announced the launch of The Samuel Fineman Cardiac Catheterization Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Lab. The new AI lab will use the hospital's renowned Cardiac Catheterization Lab to advance interventional cardiology and enhance patient care and outcomes.
- Dr. Annapoorna Kini will serve as the Director of the new AI lab. She also directs The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Cardiac Catheterization Lab, which is
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Little Otter Health Secures Growth Funding to Expand Pediatric Mental Health Services
What You Should Know:
- Little Otter Health, a pioneering digital mental health company announced it has secured significant growth funding from Decathlon Capital Partners.
- The capital infusion will be used to invest in the continued expansion of the company’s mental health services for children and support the rollout of new electronic medical records (EMR) software.
Proven Outcomes Drive Strong Growth
Little Otter Health, which offers holistic, evidence-backed care for
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The Future of AI in Healthcare: Best Practices for Responsible Innovation
Our patients can’t afford to wait on officials in Washington, DC, to offer guidance around responsible applications of AI in the healthcare industry. The healthcare community needs to stand up and continue to put guardrails in place so we can roll out AI responsibly in order to maximize its evolving potential.
Responsible AI, for example, should include reducing bias in access to and authorization of care, protecting patient data, and making sure that outputs are continually
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