What You Should Know:
- Generative AI (Gen AI) is rapidly changing the healthcare industry, and a recent McKinsey survey reveals that a large majority of healthcare leaders are actively exploring or implementing this technology.
- The latest survey, conducted in Q4 2024, provides insights into the evolving perspectives and approaches of payers, health systems, and healthcare services and technology (HST) groups.
Widespread Adoption and Implementation
The survey found that 85%
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Mount Sinai Launches AI Small Molecule Drug Discovery Center
What You Should Know:
- The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has launched the AI Small Molecule Drug Discovery Center, a pioneering initiative that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionize the process of drug development.
- The new center aims to integrate AI with traditional drug discovery methods to identify and design novel small-molecule therapeutics with unprecedented speed and precision.
Accelerating Drug Discovery with AI
Unlike conventional drug
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Redox Joins CommonWell Health Alliance for Healthcare Data Interoperability
What You Should Know:
- Redox, a provider of healthcare data interoperability solutions, has announced its membership in CommonWell Health Alliance, a Qualified Health Information Network™ (QHIN™).
- Redox brings a key advantage to CommonWell's QHIN participants: real-time writeback for direct connections. This capability enhances data exchange and workflow efficiency.
Expanding Access to Critical Healthcare Data:
By joining CommonWell, Redox aims to empower a wide range of
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Venteur Raises $20M to Expand Personalized Health Benefits Platform
What You Should Know:
- Venteur, a personalized health technology platform secures $20M in Series A funding round led by Informed Ventures and American Family Ventures, with strategic investment from Morgan Health, Catalyst by Wellstar, and Ingeborg Investments. Existing investors also participated in the round.
- Venteur has been a pioneer in the ICHRA space, helping employers manage rising healthcare costs and offering a practical alternative to traditional group health plans. The
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SonderMind Expands Personalized Mental Healthcare Services Nationwide
What You Should Know:
- SonderMind, a provider of comprehensive, personalized mental health care, has announced its expansion to serve the entire country, now available in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
- The expansion brings a combination of human-powered care and AI-powered tools to individuals across the nation, ensuring access to the right care at the right time.
Comprehensive Mental Healthcare Approach
SonderMind's approach to mental healthcare goes beyond
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AvaSure Acquires Nurse Disrupted to Advane Clinically-Developed Virtual Nursing Across Care Settings
What You Should Know:
- AvaSure, the leader in AI-powered virtual care virtual care solutions, today announced the acquisition of Nurse Disrupted, a nurse-founded virtual nursing platform designed to enhance care delivery across both hospital and home-based settings.
- This strategic acquisition reinforces AvaSure’s commitment to clinically-driven innovation and marks the company’s second acquisition in nine months, following the purchase of Ouva’s Smart Room AI technology.
Nurse
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Locke Bio Partners with imaware to Bring Comprehensive Lab Testing to Telehealth
What You Should Know:
- Locke Bio, a leading telehealth platform, has partnered with imaware, a premier lab-testing provider, to integrate comprehensive diagnostic testing into its digital healthcare ecosystem.
- This collaboration removes one of the final barriers to fully remote healthcare, allowing telehealth providers to offer lab-validated treatments without requiring patients to visit a doctor’s office.
Locke Bio Expands Telehealth Capabilities with Lab Testing
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ATA Action Acquires Digital Therapeutics Alliance, Forms New Digital Health Coalition
What You Should Know:
- ATA Action, the advocacy arm of the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), has announced its acquisition of the Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA), the leading international organization focused on expanding access to digital therapeutics (DTx).
- The acquisition creates a powerful, unified platform for policy and advocacy, dedicated to advancing innovative technologies that are reshaping patient care. The Boards of Directors of the ATA, ATA Action,
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Chatbots Transforming Healthcare: From Diagnosis to Patient Support
What You Should Know:
- Chatbots are emerging as a revolutionary tool in healthcare, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to improve patient engagement across diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and support, according to a new report in the Cureus Journal of Medical Science.
- The study of clinical studies highlights the growing role of chatbots in various medical fields, particularly in oncology, psychiatry, and chronic disease management.
Key Applications of Chatbots in
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NCI Partners With Lunit to Drive AI-Powered Cancer Research
What You Should Know:
- Lunit, a provider of AI-powered solutions for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, has announced a collaboration with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
- The partnership will focus on exploring innovative applications of AI in cancer research, with the goal of improving personalized cancer care.
Focus on Tumor Microenvironment and Immune Phenotyping:
The collaboration will concentrate on
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