Sunday, September 8, 2024
For a recent interview, we caught up with Sabria Lagoun, former programme manager at Health Hub Vienna, and current AI innovation manager at MSD Österreich, to talk about all things digital and health in Austria. Talking about her background, Sabria told us that she is originally French-Algerian and initially moved […]
Caresyntax, a US-based company specialising in surgical intelligence and automation technologies, has secured $180 million in funding for its AI-powered precision surgery platform. Described as “a scalable, end-to-end software and AI platform”, Caresyntax’s solution captures and analyses large volumes of video, audio, images, clinical and operational data in and around […]
Berlin-based tech company Clare&me has raised €3.7 million in funding for its clinical large language model (CLLM), underlining the company’s vision to develop non-judgemental mental health support to “close the gap between the demand and supply”. The solution allows individuals seeking mental health support to schedule regular calls with ‘Clare’, […]
DIGITAL, a Canadian global innovation cluster for digital technologies, has announced a commitment worth an estimated $44 million to develop and deploy AI tech, with the aim of supporting healthcare providers and enhancing patient outcomes. The funding comes under the Health Compass II project, which aims to launch four AI-driven […]
The European Commission has announced that AI Act, a legal framework which seeks to address the risks of AI and place Europe “to play a leading role globally” by setting out clear requirements and obligations in support of “trustworthy AI”, has officially entered into force today. Designed to address risks […]
A $20 million donation to Mayo Clinic, a not-for-profit American academic medical centre, has been made by Dwight and Dian Diercks to “fuel key elements of Mayo Clinic’s vision for the future of healthcare”, with the fund intended to boost initiatives such as developing generative AI tools for insight into […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published a technical brief on the role of AI in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), outlining uses and risks across health education, screening, diagnosis, care management, and more. As well as recognising the opportunities for digital innovations to “improve access to and […]
California-based Maxim AI, described as an “enterprise-grade evaluation and observability platform for AI applications”, has raised $3 million in a funding round to help “test and rapidly ship AI products”, with Maxim also announcing the general availability launch of the platform. The platform is designed to streamline the AI development […]
At the Web Summit in Lisbon, we had the opportunity to chat with Irina Shymko, VP of business development at Ukrainian health tech start-up Datuum.AI, on how the company is working to overcome some of the challenges relating to healthcare data on a global level. Irina began by sharing some […]
Boston Children’s Hospital has launched a pilot of an AI solution for imaging analysis in paediatric radiology, aiming to “improve image quality and the speed and accuracy of image interpretation”. Using the Red Hat OpenShift solution, the hospital is hoping to replace “time-consuming” manual quantitative measurements, with the application automatically […]
