| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.12.2024 | The Digital Revolution in Healthcare: Monitoring Blood Pressure Remotely | In the age of technology, healthcare is undergoing a seismic shift. Digital platforms are becoming the backbone of patient monitoring. Closed Loop Medicine, a pioneer in this field, has unveiled a groundbreaking study that showcases the pot... |
| 21.12.2024 | Исследование: игры с открытым миром оказывают положительное влияние на психоэмоциональное состояние игроков... | Видеоигры с открытым миром способны значительно улучшить расслабление и психическое благополучие пользователей, демонстрируют результаты исследования учёных из Великобритании и Австрии. Подобные игры предлагают форму когнитивного эскапизма,... |
| 17.12.2024 | Closed Loop Medicine demonstrates application of digital platform for remote blood pressure and medication monitoring | Study published in JMIR validates the feasibility, use and safety of a digital platform for remote, routine monitoring of blood pressure and medication in hypertension patients
Findings support the use of the Company’s combined drug + digit... |
| 22.10.2024 | Уроки о человеческом разуме от ИИ | Источник: журнал Skeptic. Рисунок адаптирован переводчиком
Изначально утверждения Блейка Лемуана для многих выглядели убедительно. В конце концов, разумное существо хотело бы, чтобы его личность была признана, и у него действительно были бы... |
| 22.10.2024 | South Korean Mental Tech Startup DoctorPresso Publishes Study to Detect Depression from User-Generated Diary test data in International Journal | SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Doctorpresso's study to detect depression from user-generated diary text data was published in the September 2024 issue of the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) in recognition of i... |
| 19.09.2024 | SciScore to check for adherence to rigor and reporting requirements in several American Heart Association journals | Expansion of SciScore to more AHA titles
An earlier pilot project found that using SciScore to evaluate submitted manuscripts effectively improved several aspects of rigor of research articles.
Researchers happily supply information on meth... |
| 20.05.2024 | A research paper in collaboration with Keio University on building a predictive model for patients who “feel like medicines are bulky and difficult to swallow” using PHR has been published in the medi... | A research paper on building a predictive model for patients who find it difficult to take medicine due to its size using PHR in
collaboration with Keio University was published in the medical journal “Journal of
Published in “Medical Inter... |
| 20.05.2024 | A research paper in collaboration with Keio University on building a predictive model for patients who “feel like medicines are bulky and difficult to swallow” using PHR has been published in the medi... | - |
| 10.05.2024 | Harnessing Clinical Intelligence to Advance Health Plan Member Education | Tim Price, Chief Product Officer at Infermedica
In an era where accessing health information is easier than ever, determining what is reliable poses increasing difficulty for health plan members. The complexity of modern health plans and th... |
| 01.05.2024 | Digital Health Platform Improves Asthma Symptoms: Now Published in Journal Of Medical Internet Research | juli achieves statistically significant superiority compared to an active control in randomized controlled trial conducted with University College London
The rigor with which the team at juli studied their product is exceptional; I know ver... |
| 29.04.2024 | HealthTech Company Mika Announces Publication of Peer-Reviewed Clinical Trial | Mika's Logo
Dr. Gandolf Finke, Mika-Founder and Managing Director (credit: Viktor Strasse)
Prof. Dr. Guy Montgomery, Director of the Center for Behavioral Oncology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. (credit: private)
The ... |
| 23.04.2024 | Forum Ventures report: where health systems say innovation is most needed | The report outlined four areas as a guide to help startups to sell into these systems
The last five years have seen a huge upheaval for the healthcare space: starting with COVID and the move to teleheath and virtual care, along with already... |
| 19.02.2024 | Can health apps help address the gender inequality in healthcare? | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
Women’s health apps and websites, also known as FemTech, boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic and continue to grow.
These women’s digital health technologies aim to support women with their health dur... |
| 05.02.2024 | Musk’s Neuralink chip is now implanted in a human but questions remain | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
Earlier this week, Elon Musk announced his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, had implanted a device in a human for the first time. The company’s PRIME study, approved by the US Food and Dr... |
| 09.01.2024 | Building Stronger Payer-Provider Alliances | The relationship between improved payer-provider collaboration and high-quality, affordable care is well-established, but the degree to which health systems and health plans develop true partnerships for value varies, a recent American Hosp... |
| 06.10.2023 | Inpatient Healthcare Delivery: The Emergence Of Virtual-First Strategy | Dr. Corey Scurlock MD, MBA is the CEO & founder of Equum Medical. |
| 01.09.2023 | Could AI be the spark that ends the opioid epidemic? | Jerel Ezell Contributor
Jerel Ezell is an assistant professor in Community Health Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. He is also the director of the Berkeley Center for Cultural Humility and a Fulbri... |
| 23.08.2023 | Can ChatGPT Be Accurate in Clinical Decision Making? New Study Has a Surprising Answer | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 23 August 2023, 07:08 am
A recent study led by researchers from Mass General Brigham has shed light on the accuracy of ChatGPT in clinical decision making.
The research revealed that the large-language model (LLM)... |
| 01.08.2023 | Can Doctor AI predict cancer, save lives? | A patient waits anxiously in the doctor’s office. The specialist walks in to inform them that they have been diagnosed with cancer. But there is good news. It has been discovered at an early stage. They have excellent prospects for a full r... |
| 31.07.2023 | 5 minutes of morning meditation can lower stress and anxiety for the rest of the day – here’s how to start | There are some things we all know we’re supposed to do to feel better: Drink more water, take more walks, go on fewer tequila benders. Meditation is another – research has shown it to help with everything from anxiety and depression to bett... |
| 15.06.2023 | Game-changers: MAN v FAT and Koa Health strive to transform men’s mental and physical health together with 71% uptake | MAN v FAT and Koa Health partner to transform men's mental and physical health - Photo courtesy of MAN v FAT Social norms and a tendency to downplay mental and physical health symptoms mean men are less likely to get help. Leading digital m... |
| 17.05.2023 | Can Machines Heal the Mind? A Dive into the Impact of AI on Mental Health | The year is 2030. You now live in a world in which an algorithm, not a human, listens patiently to your every woe, helping you confront your deepest fears and anxieties. Sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, doesn’t it? But this futu... |
| 12.05.2023 | It's Time To Expand Diagnostics Infrastructure Beyond Covid-19 | David is the CEO and co-founder of Ash Wellness, an at-home diagnostics company providing accessible and inclusive healthcare for all. |
| 12.05.2023 | Proposed rules to protect health data in an era of abortion bans fall short | When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it effectively rescinded national protections of reproductive health care. The decision was very quickly followed by abortion bans in 14 states with more pending such as the highly restrictive ... |
| 19.04.2023 | Health
Health | What’s Hot in Healthcare: Florida researchers can diagnose stroke with 83% accuracy | Cindy Krischer Goodman | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
In the nation’s emergency rooms, strokes are regularly misdiagnosed, but now Florida International University researchers have created an algorithm to diagnose this medical condition more ... |
| 18.04.2023 | What the recent failures of Mindstrong and Pear tell us about the future of digital mental health | Over the past five years, digital mental health has risen from a niche topic to a global health priority. Patients, researchers, regulators, and investors alike are thrilled by the potential of ubiquitous mobile technology like smartphones ... |
| 02.03.2023 | Patient Testing Benefits Too Important to Be Mired in Delays | Dr. Robert Segal, Cardiologist and Co-Founder of LabFinder
LabFinder Improves Access to Test Results; Cardiologist and LabFinder Co-Founder Dr. Robert Segal Offers Tips
Clinical testing is a cornerstone of health care, and patients need – a... |
| 28.02.2023 | JMIR AI | MOBILE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-POWERED ACCEPTANCE COMMITMENT THERAPY TOOL | "Smartphone-based conversational agents can provide psychologically driven interventions and support"
TORONTO and PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- JMIR Publications published "Adolescents' Well-being While Using a ... |
| 07.02.2023 | See the 10-slide presentation a hot mental-health startup used to win over Cigna Ventures and raise $34 million | Stephen Smith, NOCD's CEO. NOCD This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
NOCD in January raised $34 million as digital-health funding tumbles.
One investor said the startup has bee... |
| 13.01.2023 | At CES, A Tractor And A Patient Stethoscope Point To Digital Health Future | The AeviceMD stethoscope is worn by the patient – a sign the digital health revolution is finally ... [+] taking hold.Aevice Health |
| 13.01.2023 | Largest decentralised study of its kind shows high levels of engagement with Huma's study app | More than 90% of 2,524 participants invited to join a fully virtual COVID-19 study, run by Cambridge researchers, downloaded and registered on the study app1 Around 75% of participants completed digital biomarker assessments such as resting... |
| 08.01.2023 | Online mental health company uses ChatGPT to help respond to users in experiment — raising ethical concerns around healthcare and AI technology | A digital mental health company is drawing ire for using GPT-3 technology without informing users.
Koko co-founder Robert Morris told Insider the experiment is "exempt" from informed consent law due to the nature of the test.
Adve... |
| 07.01.2023 | Online mental health company uses ChatGPT to help respond to users in experiment — raising ethical concerns around healthcare and AI technology | ChatGPT, a AI chat bot, has gone viral in the past two weeks. NurPhoto/Getty Images
A digital mental health company is drawing ire for using GPT-3 technology without informing users.
Koko co-founder Robert Morris told Insider the experiment... |
| 13.12.2022 | Journal of Medical Internet Research | Continuous Glucose Monitoring Type 2 Diabetes Control | Source: Shutterstock; Copyright: Lightfield Studios; License: Licensed by JMIR
“Continuous Glucose Monitoring With Low-Carbohydrate Nutritional Coaching to Improve Type 2 Diabetes Control: Randomized Quality Improvement Program”
“Type 2 dia... |
| 30.11.2022 | UNC and AWS partner to launch 10 new digital health companies | They are launching a software factory to support 25 projects in the next three years
The digital health space is growing very, very quickly: as of June of this year, there were more than 1,900 digital health startups in the United States th... |
| 27.07.2022 | Journal of Medical Internet Research - Rigor & Transparency Index: Large Scale Analysis of Scientific Reporting Quality | Source: freepik; Copyright: pch.vector; License: Licensed by JMIR
Improving rigor and transparency measures should lead to improvements in reproducibility across the scientific literature
Research reproducibility is necessary for scientific... |
| 28.06.2022 | Digital health startups are generating billions, but they aren’t producing clinical outcomes | The news: Most digital health startups fail to demonstrate robust clinical evidence for their products, according to a new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR).
Researchers analyzed 224 venture-backed digital h... |
| 21.06.2022 | Study: Many digital health startups lack clinical trials, regulatory filings | Photo: DragonImages/Getty Images |
| 19.04.2022 | Unlearn.AI, a startup developing a ‘digital twin’ service for clinical trials, raises $50M | The idea of digital twins — digital representations of humans built with computer models — for medical research is gaining traction in both the private and academic sectors. With predictive simulation technology, some experts say that digit... |
| 09.03.2022 | Ignoring behavioral and social sciences undermines the U.S. response to Covid-19 | The U.S. has bungled many of its efforts to rein in the Covid-19 pandemic. We believe that Francis S. Collins, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, perfectly captured the country’s fundamental flaw:
“Maybe we underinves... |
| 31.01.2022 | Заря тапиграфии: знает ли ваш смартфон о вашем здоровье больше, чем вы сами? | Многие люди боятся слежки со стороны собственных смартфонов. А я добровольно участвую в слежке нового типа. Каждое моё прикосновение к экрану записывает специальное приложение TapCounter. В день в среднем я делаю порядка 1000 тапов и свайпо... |
| 21.01.2022 | Maximizing technology’s value with nursing informatics | The pandemic-driven technology revolution has transformed the healthcare industry more in the past two years than any other period in history. While some changes represent temporary measures, the rapid emergence of clinician-facing digital ... |
| 04.01.2022 | Breakthrough Nutrition App Heali Partners With Boston Heart Diagnostics to Deliver Enhanced Patient Support | This partnership demonstrates Heali’s ability to work with the most trusted of health diagnostics companies, and enable their customers & patients to adhere to dietary suggestions with our state-of-the-art food intervention platform.
SA... |
| 23.11.2021 | Kaia Health Appoints Lumeris Co-Founder Nigel Ohrenstein as President to Accelerate Growth, Increase Access to Affordable High-Quality Care | NEW YORK, Nov. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Kaia Health, the digital therapeutics company on a mission to democratize access to healthcare, today announced the appointment of Nigel Ohrenstein—healthcare entrepreneur and Lumeris co-founder—as pr... |
| 19.11.2021 | How psychologists can help treat chronic pain | By Sushma Subramanian
Over the past two decades, as the opioid crisis has shaken the public’s view of painkillers and pharmaceutical companies have come under fire for their marketing practices, many patients are looking for alternatives. O... |
| 18.11.2021 | FDA clears first VR-based tool for for lower-back pain | The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared a VR-based platform intended to treat chronic lower back pain. On Tuesday, it cleared AppliedVR’s EaseVRx platform, to help reduce pain in adults ages 18 and older.
It would be AppliedVR’s firs... |
| 16.11.2021 | AppliedVR Awarded FDA Approval for VR Therapeutic for Lower Back Pain | What You Should Know:
– AppliedVR, an L.A.-based advancing the next generation of immersive therapeutics, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted de novo approval for its flagship immersive therapeutic, ... |
| 12.11.2021 | Broadband access: Health care’s newest challenge | The past two years have underscored the long-standing but always disturbing reality that millions of Americans lack sufficient health care access. While the consequences have been particularly deadly during the pandemic, the challenges to o... |
| 04.11.2021 | Multi-Cloud Machine Learning with data from on-premises and training with Google Cloud Vertex platform (Part 2 of 2) | In part 1 of the blog series we introduced the components of the solution. In this part we will look at the use cases and the key takeaways.
Use Case 1: COVID-19 Detection Application (HealthCare)
The massive COVID-19 pandemic resulted in t... |
| 26.10.2021 | How To Maximize Non-Emergency Medical Transportation’s Potential To Address Social Determinants Of Health | President and CEO of Veyo. |
| 22.09.2021 | Digital Inequity in Latinx Communities: The Forgotten Social Determinant of Health | By Miguel Leon
For anyone without broadband access, it is difficult to participate in online education, work remotely, utilize telehealth, apply for jobs, and even actively engage in our democracy. Furthermore, the intersectionality of dig... |
| 13.08.2021 | Youper CEO and founder, Dr. Jose Hamilton, M.D on VatorNews podcast | Study shows Youper's tele-therapy chatbot reduced depression and anxiety within two weeks
Vator · VatorNews Podcast With Dr. Jose Hamilton, M.D, Co - Founder And CEO Of Youper
Bambi Francisco Roizen interviews Dr. Jose Hamilton, M.D, CEO an... |
| 03.08.2021 | Regulating digital health apps needs user-centered reform | When people seek health information, they expect what they get to be reliable and accurate. But these expectations can be dashed, especially by digital health devices, many of which are not reviewed the Food and Drug Administration or other... |
| 29.07.2021 | Why insurers should continue covering telehealth post-pandemic | Before the Covid-19 pandemic arrived, the burgeoning telehealth market was on a sluggish trajectory, with low adoption rates despite advancing technology.
Experts predicted that this would change gradually over the next three to five years.... |
| 22.07.2021 | Guest Opinion: David Gunderman and Eric Vance: Filling the gap on big data analysis
| Statistical infrastructure can help improve everything from health care to politics.
Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images
By David Gunderman and Eric Vance
The ability to collect and learn from large amounts of data has been a major d... |
| 19.07.2021 | Sweetch raises $20M to provide personalized health recommendations | The company uses AI and emotional intelligence to adapt recommendations for chronically ill patients
Even before COVID, there was a growing trend toward empowering patients with devices and apps to manage their own health. No longer would y... |
| 19.07.2021 | Sweetch raises $20M for a personalized engagement system designed to boost health outcomes | You’ve just sat down to dinner and your wearable device reminds you to get up and get in your steps for the day. Maybe the app has a point, but odds are you’ll push the notification to the side. The founders of Sweetch, an Israeli company c... |
| 13.07.2021 | Carrot gets FDA nod for over-the-counter use of smoking cessation device | Carrot received 510(k) clearance to use its Pivot sensor for smoking cessation. It measures carbon monoxide levels in a person’s breath. Photo credit: Carrot
Digital health startup Carrot received the green light from regulators for patient... |
| 23.06.2021 | Despite limitations, digital health apps are still helping to chip away at the mental health crisis | Courtesy of Spill
Startups are using technology to expand access to basic mental health services and preventive care.
Through expanding access to basic care, mental health startups are prioritizing prevention.
By even just taking therapy on... |
| 23.06.2021 | Through expanding access to basic care, mental health startups are working toward a healthcare system where prevention comes first | Startups are using technology to expand access to basic mental health services and preventive care.
Despite limitations, digital health apps are still helping to chip away at the mental health crisis.
By even just taking therapy online, the... |
| 17.06.2021 | Elon Musk’s Big Neuralink Paper: Should We Prepare For The Digital Afterlife? | 01 September 2020, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Tübingen: Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk goes from one ... [+] building to the next during his visit to the biotech company Curevac. Photo: Sebastian Gollnow/dpa (Photo by Sebastian Gollnow/picture ... |
| 20.04.2021 | Health Scholars Launches NIST-Funded Study of Virtual Reality Pediatric Emergency Training for EMS | Virtual Reality Training for Pediatric Assessment “The goal is to better prepare our frontlines for pediatric emergencies which helps to strengthen the whole community,” said Bruce Evans, Upper Pine River Fire Chief and President of the Nat... |
| 24.03.2021 | New Surveys Suggest Strong Support For Telehealth, But Policymakers Have Questions | U.S. consumers, providers and policymakers support expanded telemedicine access, but not without concern about the many unknowns. |
| 23.03.2021 | AppliedVR Lands $29M for VR Platform to Treat Chronic Pain | What You Should Know:
– AppliedVR, a Los Angeles, CA-based company advancing the next generation of digital medicine, today announced $29 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funds raised to date to $35 million. The round, which ... |
| 02.03.2021 | DarioHealth Study Examines Connection Between Personalization and Sustained Behavior Change in Digital Health | NEW YORK, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- DarioHealth Corp. (Nasdaq: DRIO), a pioneer in the global digital therapeutics (DTx) market, today announced the results of a new clinical study that have been published in the Journal of Medical Inte... |
| 18.02.2021 | Four Ways AI And Machine Learning Will Drive Future Innovation And Change | CTO & MD at AX Semantics, the SaaS-based, Natural Language Generation Platform that creates any content, in any language, at any scale. |
| 08.02.2021 | Global Sleep Duration Has Significantly Increased Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Potentially Strengthening Immune System's Response to Viral Pathogens and Vaccines | Sleep Cycle These results reveal the power of harnessing big data derived from consumer sleep trackers to assess changes in sleep associated with global events, such as COVID-19
BOSTON (PRWEB) February 08, 2021
A study published in the Jour... |
| 15.01.2021 | Fitbit : New Study Demonstrates that Engaging in Fitbit Premium + Health Coaching Leads to Better Health Outcomes | Improving your health through behavior change is important to your overall well being, but changing your behavior is not an easy task. Finding the right balance of activity, sleep, stress management, and nutrition that can help you be at yo... |
| 22.12.2020 | Carrot Enters Global Market for Tobacco Cessation with it’s CE Marked Breath Sensor | What You Should Know:
– Digital health company Carrot has obtained CE Mark Certification for its breath sensor, marking its official entry into the global market for tobacco cessation.
– Clinically proven to increase the motivation to quit,... |
| 18.11.2020 | Health systems are using AI to predict severe Covid-19 cases. But limited data could produce unreliable results | As the United States braces for a bleak winter, hospital systems across the country are ramping up their efforts to develop AI systems to predict how likely their Covid-19 patients are to fall severely ill or even die. Yet most of the effor... |
| 02.10.2020 | Clinical Trial Finds Carrot Inc.'s Pivot Breath Sensor Significantly Increases Motivation to Quit Smoking | |
| 17.09.2020 | Voice assistants are doing a poor job of conveying information about voting | Over 111.8 million people in the U.S. talk to voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant every month, eMarketer estimates. Tens of millions of those people use assistants as data-finding tools, with the Global Web Index reporti... |
| 17.09.2020 | Voice assistants are doing a poor job of conveying information about voting | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Over 111.8 million people in the U.S. talk to voice assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant every month, eMarketer estimates.... |
| 25.08.2020 | Lyra Health Hits $1.1 Billion Valuation, As Coronavirus Boosts Need For Teletherapy | Lyra Health cofounder and CEO David Ebersman. Lyra Health |
| 25.08.2020 | Lyra Health Reaches $1.1B Valuation After $110M Series D to Meet Demand for Teletherapy | What You Should Know:
– Mental health benefits provider Lyra Health raises $110M in Series D funding, bringing its valuation to $1.1 billion.
– Lyra has grown significantly in 2020. So far this year, the company has added more than 800,000 ... |
| 23.07.2020 | StuffThatWorks raises $9 million to build an AI-powered, crowdsourced medical knowledge platform | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
StuffThatWorks, a startup leveraging AI, crowdsou... |
| 23.07.2020 | StuffThatWorks raises $9 million to build an AI-powered, crowdsourced medical knowledge platform | StuffThatWorks, a startup leveraging AI, crowdsourcing, and machine learning to match patients with treatments, today closed a $9 million seed round. CEO Yael Elish says the proceeds will be used to accelerate go-to-market efforts as the co... |
| 12.03.2020 | Voice Assistants Don’t Often Know How to Respond to Questions of Health: Study | Voice Assistants Don’t Often Know How to Respond to Questions of Health: Study
Eric Hal Schwartz on March 12, 2020 at 4:00 pm
Voice assistants are more likely than not to give an inappropriate response to questions about health, according t... |
| 16.12.2019 | Instagram uses AI to warn users before they post offensive captions | Instagram is launching a new feature designed to make users think twice before posting videos or photos with offensive captions.
Moving forward, whenever someone tries to post a caption that Instagram detects as being potentially offensive,... |
| 16.12.2019 | Instagram uses AI to warn users before they post offensive captions | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Instagram is launching a new feature designed to make users think twice before posting videos or photos with offensive captions.
Moving... |
| 09.12.2019 | Proteus furloughed majority of employees last month after collapse of $100M funding round | |
| 03.10.2019 | Data standards may be wonky, but they will transform health care | A story with enormous implications for the health of all Americans is likely flying below their radar and that of their physicians. In a nutshell, it’s this: A proposed rule that sets data standards will make electronic health information m... |
| 02.10.2019 | Daybreak app: research shows promise for treatment of high-risk alcohol users | // Developed as an intervention to support individuals with high-risk drinking habits, new research from Curtin has confirmed the Daybreak app has achieved its purpose.
Research conducted by the National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) at Cu... |
| 10.07.2019 | Efforts to curb cyberbullying won’t stop the broader tech backlash | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
“We are committed to leading the industry in the fight against online bullying, and we are rethinking the whole experience of Instagram... |
| 10.07.2019 | Efforts to curb cyberbullying won’t stop the broader tech backlash | “We are committed to leading the industry in the fight against online bullying, and we are rethinking the whole experience of Instagram to meet that commitment,” proclaimed Instagram head Adam Mosseri in a blog post this week.
Technology co... |
| 25.01.2019 | This Planned Parenthood bot is teaching your kids about sex | More On: planned parenthood
Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Scott donated $3.9B in the last 9 months Abortions in Texas fell 60% in 1st month under new limits Data hacked for 400,000 Planned Parenthood patients Biden reverses Trump ban on fed... |
| 25.01.2019 | This Planned Parenthood bot is teaching your kids about sex | More On: planned parenthood
Anti-abortion group temporarily banned from suing Planned Parenthood under Texas law Mississippi AG argues Supreme Court should reverse 'wrong' Roe v. Wade ruling Iowa Supreme Court ruling blocks Planned Parentho... |
| 24.01.2019 | Teens Can Now Text This Bot to Answer Their Awkward Sex Questions | This morning, Planned Parenthood announced a new sexual health chatbot for teens called Roo. Developed in conjunction with digital product agency Work & Co, users can text the 24 hour chatbot with questions about their sexual health, re... |
| 12.12.2018 | Israeli startup Sweetch leverages AI for diabetes prevention | In a phone interview, co-founder and CEO Dana Chanan explained that her company’s solution “acts as a digital coach that works 24/7 for the user.” The company’s approach involves supplying users with the Sweetch app and a digital scale. Usi... |
| 04.10.2018 | A startup’s bold plan for a mood-predicting smartphone app is shadowed by questions over evidence | In the world of digital health, Silicon Valley-based Mindstrong stands out. It has a star-studded team and tens of millions in venture capital funding, including from Jeff Bezos’ VC firm.
It also has a captivating idea: that its app, based ... |
| 28.05.2018 | 5 health tech companies addressing chronic pain that offer alternatives to surgery and opioids | In a study of 162 participants in a randomized controlled trial of Hinge Health’s program for chronic knee pain, those who completed the program had a 61 percent reduction in VAS pain compared to 21 percent in the control group. The treatme... |
| 15.05.2018 | Millions of American Women Live More Than 100 Miles from an Abortion Clinic | One in four women in the United States will make the decision to end a pregnancy in her lifetime. The journey to access that important, life-changing health care, however, may be much longer and cumbersome than she anticipates. According to... |
| 20.04.2018 | Collaborations can drive digital disruption in healthcare | Collaborations can drive digital disruption in healthcare
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Corporations should team up with more flexible startups to drive digital transformation of healthcare, says a new paper stemming from collaboration between Cambridge Judge... |
| 20.04.2018 | 3 ways to expand access to mental health care beyond adding more psychiatrists | About once a shift, I see a patient who has been unnecessarily — and often to his or her dismay — routed to my hospital’s locked psychiatric emergency unit in the process of simply trying to figure out where to go for routine psychiatric ca... |
| 06.03.2018 | Sweetch’s AI-driven app claims to reduce risk of developing diabetes | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
While the world tries to decide whether artificial intelligence is here to help us or hurt us, AI is quietly infiltrating our daily liv... |
| 06.03.2018 | Sweetch’s AI-driven app claims to reduce risk of developing diabetes | While the world tries to decide whether artificial intelligence is here to help us or hurt us, AI is quietly infiltrating our daily lives — from streaming recommendations to image recognition. And in health technology, AI is making a real d... |
| 27.11.2017 | The Role-Playing Video Game Where Teens Navigate Sex | When Lynn Fiellin, an associate professor of medicine at Yale University, first started talking about designing a video game for young teens to help them improve their sexual health knowledge, she recalls thinking what a great tool it could... |
| 10.10.2017 | Updating Wikipedia should be part of all doctors’ jobs | When the Ebola pandemic erupted in West Africa in 2014, the English-language Wikipedia articles on Ebola were overhauled and versions were created or updated in more than 100 other languages. These pages would go on to be viewed at least 89... |
| 31.10.2016 | Happify expands into research with launch of Happify Labs | This move will enable the New York-based startup to team with academic researchers to conduct clinical trials on interventions related to positive psychology and neuroscience. It also will give researchers access to data from Happify users ... |
| 20.09.2016 | Study applies Fitbit for heart rate monitoring of intensive care patients | Despite the support healthcare and life science businesses give to the adoption of wearables for patient monitoring, among other things, accuracy remains a bugbear. That presents a challenge for companies such as Fitbit, which developed fit... |
