June 15, 2023
The Ready4OP app servers as a digital companion supporting patients preparing for major operations. Capreolos provides evidence based, scientifically sound information and useful facts about surgery and hospital stays. The Ready4OP app also provides a guide to questions for doctor-patient discussions. It is intended to help patients and their care givers to optimally prepare for the first consultation with their surgeon. In everyday medical practice, general practitioners and other non-surgical specialists are often unable to fully cover all the relevant information and provide this support to their patients.
June 8, 2023
Life5 works with several insurance companies and simplifies the subscription process. Customers can sign up in a few minutes through Life5's website where they only need to fill out a form. The company's underwriting engine can handle 700 illnesses and risk professions, which greatly increases the acceptance rate. The startup acts as a managing general agent and partners with insurers and reinsurers, such as Axa and CNP Assurances. At the moment, some 9,000 families are covered by a Life5 insurance product.
Founded in 2019, London-based GetHarley takes a fundamentally different approach to skin health. It matches customers with its one thousand-plus (and constantly growing) network of clinicians to offer skin consultations hosted on the GetHarley platform. Patients can share their concerns and goals, speak to a clinician and be recommended and sent a bespoke skincare routine of the best medical-grade products. This seamless experience improves the quality of service that clinicians can provide, and also helps to open up the sector to consumers who would otherwise get overwhelmed or do not know where to start. Index Ventures led the round.
June 6, 2023
The acquisition has strengthened Olympus' recently announced strategy and initiatives in digital health and brings the promise of AI-powered real-time diagnosis and minimally invasive treatment of chronic diseases closer to reality, ultimately raising the standard of care across multiple medical specialties and improving patient outcomes.
June 3, 2023
By harnessing AI and clinical edge computing, the King's College London spin-out aims to revolutionize surgical outcomes and alleviate the global burden of surgical complications across diverse surgical specialties. The funding round was led by a syndicate of experienced European and American HealthTech investors, including HERAN Partners, Redalpine, LifeX Ventures, and ZEISS Ventures.
Lindus Health's clinical trial software has been used in over 80 trials in the UK, US and Europe since beginning in 2021. Organizers of clinical trials can conduct study design, recruitment and delivery through the Lindus platform. The company is currently working with Pharmanovia on trials for insomnia and a digital tinnitus one with Oto.
May 30, 2023
The company wants to be something other than a little sleep tracker; it wants to be a health tracker and a general-purpose application in payments, identity, and security access. And it has taken steps in that direction, having acquired a digital identification startup, Proxy, to help it move into some of those new areas of business in the not-so-distant future...
May 23, 2023
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) and Roche UK have partnered to harness the power of data by co-develop digital tools. The collaboration will develop the use of cutting-edge technologies, like artificial intelligence and machine learning to enable better use of data that is routinely collected in treatment to improve care for children and young people at GOSH and beyond.
While WHO is enthusiastic about the appropriate use of technologies, including LLMs, to support health-care professionals, patients, researchers and scientists, there is concern that caution that would normally be exercised for any new technology is not being exercised consistently with LLMs. This includes widespread adherence to key values of transparency, inclusion, public engagement, expert supervision, and rigorous evaluation...
Patient21, a four-year-old German startup that combines a digital healthcare platform with real-world brick-and-mortar clinics, has raised €100 million ($108 million) in a Series C round of funding led by Israeli VC firm Pitango, constituting a mix of equity and debt. Founded out of Berlin in 2019, Patient21's platform spans pretty much the whole patient cycle, from online bookings through digital case histories, check-ins, billing, insurance and more.
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