Digital and AI

Orchid develops first-of-its-kind virtual note taking tool for mental health

Orchid, a US-based, behavioural health electronic health record vendor, has developed a first-of-its-kind generative AI-enabled note taking tool to support mental health providers who are struggling with the burdens of administrative tasks and help patients get the care they need faster.

August 9, 2024

Period tracking app Flo reaches unicorn status

London-based Flo Health, a menstrual cycle and ovulation tracking app, has raised over $200 million in a Series C round led by General Atlantic, a New-York based private equity firm. The funding values Flo at over $1 billion, making it the “first purely digital consumer women’s health app to achieve unicorn status”, as well as the first European femtech company to.

August 2, 2024

How software can help hospitals improve their knowledge management and save them millions — an interview with Galia Schwarz, CEO of C8 Health

C8 Health is a software company founded two years ago to solve healthcare’s pervasive knowledge management problem. In an interview with HBI, Galia Rosen Schwarz, C8 Health’s CEO, explained why inefficient knowledge management is such a big issue in hospitals and how C8’s software addresses it.

August 2, 2024

Use of AI and robots in cancer diagnosis and surgeries — an interview with Dr. T. Manohar of Apollo Institute of Urology, India

The healthcare sector is increasingly relying on AI and robots, from diagnosis to surgeries. HBI spoke with Dr. T. Manohar, Director & Chief of Urology Services at Apollo Institute of Urology, Uro Oncology, and Kidney Transplantation, about the use of AI in cancer diagnosis.

July 23, 2024

Learna’s new postgraduate course on AI for healthcare workers

Online medical education platform Learna has put together a postgraduate programme on AI use in medicine, aimed at healthcare professionals who want to brush up their understanding and skills in how AI works and how they can make use of it. Dr Anish Kotecha, Learna’s Head of Medical Education, spoke to us about the motivation for creating the course and what it covers.

July 22, 2024

EU Artificial Intelligence Act comes into law

The European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act), was published last Friday in the Official Journal of the European Union, the final step in bringing the Act into law.

July 19, 2024

What innovations are health tech investors most excited about in 2024?

Healthcare is a sector in which it can be hard to innovate. Regulations are tight and risk aversion is rife. This is understandable — justifiable, even — given lives are at stake. But it means the sector doesn’t see much creative destruction in the models it uses for delivering care.

July 19, 2024

WHO launches European digital health transformation initiative

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has unveiled a new international and cross-sectoral initiative aimed at fast-tracking the digital transformation of healthcare systems across its European member states.

July 18, 2024

How AI is improving diagnostic imaging

Diagnostic imaging faces similar capacity and workforce issues as other areas of healthcare. But hundreds of start-ups are developing AI tools to ameliorate the situation. According to Antoine Jomier, CEO & Co Founder of Incepto Medica, a platform for imaging AI applications, there is at least a 30-40% time-saving for radiologists and as much as a seven percentage point EBITDA margin increase for providers at stake. Patients, payors and health systems at large also stand to benefit.

July 11, 2024

PMI’s changing business model

Access to primary care is now the number one reason people in the UK want private medical insurance (PMI), according to data collected by UK health insurer Vitality. Other NHS countries have been seeing similar trends since Covid. Katie Tryon, Vitality’s Director of Health Strategy, spoke about how this has completely changed the PMI business model — for the better — at HBI’s conference last month.

July 3, 2024

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