The 53 digital health mergers and acquisitions we covered in 2019
Alphabet, Amazon and Apple all made deals this year to buy digital health startups, and the year saw exits for Qualcomm Life, Fitbit and PatientsLikeMe.
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Artera expands patient communications platform support to additional
The platform includes language support, call-to-text functionality, a high degree of automation and community outreach features.
LLMs can converse with patients, but aren’t ready for clinical use
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Talkspace announces internal AI Innovation Group for responsible AI
The company’s first feature to emerge from the group is its “smart notes,” which generate clinical notes for providers based on their conversations with Talkspace…
Safe AI adoption through ‘computational leadership’
Harvard research associate Brian Spisak discusses how a “leadership-first, tech-last” approach can prevent organisations from deploying ticking time bombs.
Headway scores $100M, more than doubling its valuation to $2.3B
The funding comes less than a year after the virtual mental health company closed a $125 million Series C funding round.
Abridge partners with Epic, Mayo Clinic to create a genAI nurse
The three companies will collaborate with Mayo Clinic nurses to create a genAI documentation workflow tool that will integrate into Epic nursing workflows.
Learning from Pear Therapeutics to advise companies
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AHA on training professionals on digital health
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Duke launches $20M incubator to turn academic research into industry
Duke-NUS Medical School’s LIVE Ventures will bring together scientists and public and private sector entities to commercialize academic research concepts.