€1m Digital Mental Health Strategy for Ireland
Ireland has unveiled a €1 million digital mental health strategy that outlines a national roadmap for digital tools, shared records and technology‑enabled services. The plan builds on the 2020‑2030 "Sharing the Vision" policy and prioritises the HSE Health App, a national shared care record, community care record and electronic health records. Core principles include co‑design with service users, robust standards, GDPR compliance and digital inclusion. Implementation will span apps, wearables, AI predictive modelling and a new data governance framework to improve accessibility and quality of mental health care.
Canary Speech, JubileeTV Partner on AI Voice Biomarkers for At-Home Care
Canary Speech has partnered with JubileeTV to embed its AI‑driven vocal‑biomarker technology into consumer video calls, marking the first deployment outside clinical settings. The system analyzes 40 seconds of natural conversation, extracting thousands of acoustic features to generate nondiagnostic scores...
TigerConnect Aims to Use AI to Modernize Hospital Operator, Management Systems
TigerConnect unveiled a cloud‑native operator console aimed at replacing decades‑old hospital switchboards. The platform unifies call routing, code activations, and alarm management into a single dashboard while integrating with EHRs, telephony and scheduling tools. AI‑driven automation and intelligent search streamline...
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At a recent round‑table, a speaker outlined how the NHS 10‑year plan can be accelerated by applying platform‑centric principles drawn from the Platformland framework. The presentation highlighted four pillars: digital ways of working, platform‑based clinical functions, converting the public into...
Switching to Syai CGM for Easier Glucose Monitoring
I just started testing a new continuous glucose monitor (CGM) device from Syai. I tried Abbott Freestyle Libre 2 and Sibionics before, but the need for the reader with Libre was a pain in the process, and the Sibionics app is...
Kyndryl and University of Liverpool to Spearhead Health Innovation with Agentic AI
Kyndryl and the University of Liverpool’s Civic Health Innovation Labs have launched a partnership to apply Kyndryl’s Agentic AI Framework to co‑develop blueprints for next‑generation healthcare technologies. The first phase will generate conceptual AI projects, emphasizing conversational agents that help...
MiraDx Launches New PROSTOX Genetic Test for Prostate Cancer Patients
MiraDx has launched PROSTOX Standard, a clinically validated genetic test that predicts long‑term urinary toxicity for prostate cancer patients receiving conventional or moderately hypofractionated radiation therapy. The test uses a cheek swab and returns results in five to seven days,...
FDA Grants Breakthrough Designation to Orthonika’s Synthetic Total Meniscus Implant
Orthonika, an Imperial College London spin‑out, received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its synthetic Total Meniscus Replacement (TMR) implant and an invitation to the Total Product Life Cycle Advisory Program. The designation promises prioritized regulatory engagement, speeding the path to...
Swallowable Robots Promise Safer, Remote Diagnostics
The future of medicine might be something you swallow. When I first read about PillBot, I paused. A tiny ingestible robot camera that replaces traditional endoscopies? That is not incremental innovation. That is a shift. Instead of invasive tubes and hospital procedures,...
Epredia and Mindpeak Announce EU Distribution Agreement for AI-Powered Image Recognition in Cancer Diagnostics
Epredia and Mindpeak have signed a distribution agreement to bring Mindpeak’s AI‑driven image‑recognition software to Epredia’s European digital pathology customers. The AI modules deliver pixel‑level analysis for breast, lung, gastrointestinal cancers and biomarker quantification, operating without cloud connectivity to preserve...
Every Cure and Computational Pharmacophenomics: A New Field of Medicine
The nonprofit Every Cure is launching computational pharmacophenomics, an AI‑driven approach that systematically evaluates all 4,000 FDA‑approved drugs for the 14,000 diseases lacking treatments. Its MATRIX platform integrates massive biomedical knowledge graphs, generates graph embeddings, and ranks 75 million drug‑disease pairs,...
GSMA Foundry and NUHS Singapore to Drive 5G and AI Innovations in Healthcare Through New Strategic Partnership
GSMA Foundry has signed a strategic partnership with Singapore’s National University Health System (NUHS) to accelerate 5G‑enabled, AI‑driven healthcare solutions. The collaboration will leverage private 5G networks, digital twins, XR, IoT and ambient AI to enable remote surgical assistance, immersive...
b.well Connected Health Unveils Bailey™
b.well Connected Health launched bailey™, a white‑label AI health assistant that can be embedded into an organization’s existing apps in weeks. Powered by b.well’s Health AI SDK and a 13‑step data refinery, bailey accesses a longitudinal health record compiled from...
InnoScot Issues Call for Early-Stage Innovations Around Patient Care, Efficiency, Workforce, and Transformation
InnoScot Health has launched a call for early‑stage innovators—including final‑year trainees, first‑year practitioners, SMEs and student entrepreneurs—to submit ideas that improve patient care, efficiency, workforce wellbeing, or enable data‑driven remote care. Successful applicants will receive a support package covering intellectual‑property...
FDA Approves Allurion’s PMA Application for Gastric Balloon System
Allurion received FDA clearance for its Gastric Balloon System featuring the Smart Capsule, a swallow‑able, endoscopy‑free obesity treatment. The capsule is placed during a 15‑minute office visit, inflates in the stomach for about four months, then exits naturally, with a...
Puresta Bags $3.7 Mn To Build AI-Powered Full-Stack Dermatology Platform
Puresta raised ₹34 Cr (≈$3.7 M) in a pre‑seed round led by Spring Marketing Capital to build an AI‑powered full‑stack dermatology platform. The startup acquired HealthQ Life Science, the parent of D2C skincare brand SKINQ, to integrate dermatologist‑formulated products into its technology...
Combining Soft and Hard Properties: Synergistic Innovation of Magnetic Hydrogel Microrobots in Precision Medicine
Magnetic hydrogel microrobots (MHMs) are emerging untethered soft robots that combine magnetic actuation with responsive hydrogel matrices. Recent research highlights dual design strategies that integrate material optimization and functional integration, enabling precise, spatiotemporal control. Innovations in bionic structures and multimodal...
CMS Updates MIPS for 2026: Administrative Claims, TEFCA Bonuses, and AI Safety Measures
CMS released its 2026 Merit‑based Incentive Payment System updates, adding administrative claims scoring, a TEFCA participation bonus, and a new AI safety measure. The changes affect quality, interoperability, improvement activities, and cost categories, with retroactive application to 2025 for large...
Tech Alone Won’t Save UK Healthcare – Finn Stevenson, Flok Health
Finn Stevenson, CEO of AI‑driven physiotherapy startup Flok Health, discussed on the UKTN Podcast how slow reform in the NHS hampers patient care, especially for back‑pain sufferers. He highlighted Flok's hybrid model that combines algorithmic triage with live physiotherapist sessions...
China’s Health AI App Hits 100 Million Users Worldwide
The world’s largest health-focused AI app is from China now, with over 100 million (!) users. Ant Group just released this number and more details of what their plans are with the app. "Among its new users, 52% came from third-tier cities...
Physicians Must Lead AI Governance in Healthcare
AI governance in health care: Why physicians must lead the design https://t.co/W2SZujkFXz #Physician #HealthIT via @kevinmd
Ambience Healthcare Recognized as 2026 KLAS/CHIME Trailblazer Award Winner
Ambience Healthcare was named the 2026 KLAS/CHIME Trailblazer Award winner, recognizing its leadership in AI‑driven clinical documentation and revenue integrity. The award, now in its second year, evaluates vendors on KLAS performance scores, client feedback, and measurable industry impact. Ambience’s...
Drug-Controlled CAR T Cells May Enable Safer Immunotherapy
Researchers at EPFL have created a drug‑controlled CAR‑T platform called DROP‑CAR that can be turned off on demand with the FDA‑approved BCL‑2 inhibitor venetoclax. The system places a reversible protein‑protein interaction on the cell surface, causing the CAR to dissociate...
Flatiron Health Attends the 2026 American Society of Genitourinary Cancers Symposium to Answer Oncology’s Most Critical Questions
Flatiron Health showcased its global Prostate and Bladder Cancer Panoramic datasets at the ASCO GU 2026 symposium, leveraging over 420,000 longitudinal patient records from the US, UK and Germany. Six research presentations highlighted critical gaps in genetic testing, equitable access...
Adapthealth Corp (AHCO) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
American Well Corp (AHCO) reported Q4 2025 revenue of $55.3 million, a 22.1% YoY decline, as the company completed its pivot from a multi‑product telehealth provider to a pure SaaS platform. Subscription revenue now represents 53% of total revenue, reflecting...
Ceribell Inc (CBLL) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Ceribell reported a 34% year‑over‑year revenue increase to $24.8 million in Q4 2025, reaching $89.1 million for the full year. Gross margins remained high at 87% for the quarter, with a cash balance of $159.3 million, while net loss widened to $13.5 million due...
India Expands Digital Health Impact Domestically and Globally
India reaffirmed its commitment to digital health at the IGSTC Strategic Conclave 2026, spotlighting telemedicine advancements for the Armed Forces and the broader public. The event announced expanded collaboration with Germany and highlighted the integration of telehealth into the Ayushman...
University of Iowa Proposes $12M Radiology Department Renovation
The University of Iowa Health Care has proposed a $12 million renovation of its downtown radiology department. The plan replaces end‑of‑life CT and nuclear medicine scanners and adds two new CT units plus a cardiac camera. The upgrade targets faster patient...
Android Mental Health Apps with 14.7M Installs Filled with Security Flaws
Security firm Oversecured scanned ten Android mental‑health apps with more than 14.7 million combined installs and uncovered 1,575 vulnerabilities. The flaws include 54 high‑severity and 538 medium‑severity issues such as insecure intent handling, plaintext API keys, and weak random number generation....
Care.com and Headspace Launch Mental Health Partnership for Caregivers
Care.com and Headspace announced a partnership to bolster mental‑health support for family caregivers. The collaboration introduces ten exclusive micro‑mindfulness videos, each under three minutes, and provides free Headspace subscriptions to Care.com members. The initiative responds to data showing roughly one‑third...
Accelerating Next Generation Medicine with New Drug Delivery Platform
Scientists at the University of Nottingham have unveiled a modular materials platform that self‑assembles with RNA to form nanoscale delivery particles. The system uses reversible host‑guest linkages, allowing rapid tuning of stability and behavior for diverse therapeutic needs. In pre‑clinical...
Prime-Edited Therapy Restores Immune Function in Teen
Below is the story of the first patient treated with a prime-edited therapeutic, developed by @PrimeMedicine in a trial led by Dr. Élie Haddad and his team at CHU Sainte-Justine. This teenager suffered from chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), an immunodeficiency,...
ASE Promoting 3D Echo as a Better Way to Treat Congenital Heart Disease
The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) is championing 3‑dimensional echocardiography as the preferred tool for diagnosing and guiding treatment of congenital heart disease. ASE is standardizing image display and terminology to align imagers, interventional cardiologists, and surgeons, and will deliver...
Q&A: Datavant on AI Hype and Stock Market Volatility
Datavant CISO Dan Walsh told MobiHealthNews that AI is not in a bubble but is over‑hyped, and its true value will emerge as a productivity tool rather than a market disruptor. He likened current hype to past tech cycles, noting...
The Future of Senior Living Requires Better Care Coordination
PointClickCare’s senior‑care chief medical officer warns that senior‑living occupancy has surged to 90‑95%, rendering the old fee‑for‑service, staff‑driven model untenable. The industry must move from reactive emergency‑department transfers to proactive, in‑place care coordination. Success hinges on comprehensive digital resident records,...
Copan’s PhenoMatrix Software Gets FDA 510(k) Clearance
Copan Group’s PhenoMatrix software, an AI‑driven image assessment tool for bacterial culture plates, received FDA 510(k) clearance as a Class II in‑vitro diagnostic device. The clearance covers analysis of blood, chocolate, MacConkey and ChroMagar agar plates, enabling semi‑quantitative colony counting and...
Gen AI Is Coming for Medical Bills; 3 Ways to Prepare
Patients are turning to generative AI tools like ChatGPT to question and dramatically reduce their medical bills, with high‑profile cases showing savings of over $150,000. OpenAI reports nearly 2 million weekly messages about health insurance, indicating a surge in consumer‑driven AI...
ONC Contest: Make Patient-Exported EHI More Usable
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has launched the EHIgnite Challenge, a $490,000 competition aimed at turning raw patient‑exported electronic health information into usable, actionable insights. Phase 1, closing May 13, 2026, seeks concept and design submissions that provide...
AI Personal Trainer Revolutionizes Strength Training
I love my new AI personal trainer. In addition to knowing all my metabolic parameters & strength of each of my muscle groups, she also identifies imbalances and helps me correct it. Is this the future of strength training? https://egym.com/us
Engage Caregivers Early to Make AI a Support Tool
AI adoption in healthcare coding starts with people. Nick Judd of Cleveland Clinic shares why engaging caregivers from day one helped teams see generative AI as a support tool—not a replacement. 🔗https://t.co/cMNcrP9ZWl @ClevelandClinic @DukeHealth #AKASA #AHIMA25 #HITSM https://t.co/FtfPW5BWKP
Why Red Teaming Is Vital for Health Systems, and Not Just for Cybersecurity
Red‑team exercises simulate real cyber‑attacks to test how healthcare organizations respond under pressure. Pieter Ceelen of Fortra explains that these engagements uncover hidden vulnerabilities such as credential sharing, unpatched legacy medical IoT, and unclear emergency procedures like shutting down internet...
Space Medicine Framework Can Redefine Value-Based Care Strategy
Shannon Kennedy will present a HIMSS 2026 workshop that applies space‑medicine constraints to redesign value‑based care. She introduces the "Orbital Quintuple Aim" framework, which evaluates five interdependent dimensions of health delivery under extreme resource limits. Participants act as spacecraft medical...
Officials Build Digital Backbone for Federal Health Care Reform
The Trump administration is constructing a federal digital backbone to support the Great Healthcare Plan, focusing on interoperability, patient identity verification, and transparent prescription pricing. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are advancing a Health Technology Ecosystem that will...
SIIM Offers Opportunity for Imaging Information Champions
SIIM is expanding its educational offerings to cultivate imaging informatics champions, providing training, mentorship, and a new virtual hospital sandbox for safe IT practice. The society’s partnership with RSNA has produced a National Imaging Informatics Course, creating a standardized pathway...
Designing Scalable Measurement-Based Care Systems for Expanding Health Care Organizations
Measurement‑Based Care (MBC) uses patient‑reported outcome measures like PHQ‑9 and GAD‑7 to turn subjective symptoms into quantitative data, driving up to 95 % improvement in outcomes. As patient volumes grow, manual MBC processes become inefficient, leading to incomplete assessments, clinician burnout,...
One Physician's Committed Effort to Bring Virtual Kidney Care to Rural Georgia
Georgia faces a silent kidney disease crisis, with 1.2 million adults affected and only 147,000 aware of their condition. Dr. Sharica Brookins launched Remote Renal Care in 2018, the state’s first fully virtual nephrology practice, to bridge the specialist gap in...
FDA Unveils Pathway for Ultra-Rare Disease Therapies
The FDA released draft guidance introducing the Plausible Mechanism Framework, a new approval pathway for individualized therapies targeting ultra‑rare diseases. The framework permits sponsors to seek clearance for gene‑editing and RNA‑based treatments when traditional randomized trials are infeasible due to...
Faster Cancer Screening? New AI System Offers a Better Way to Detect Abnormal Cells
Researchers unveiled Whole‑Slide Edge Tomography, an AI‑driven 3D scanning platform that digitizes every cell on a cytology slide and classifies abnormalities with near‑human accuracy. In tests on cervical samples, the system recorded AUC scores from 0.84 for early changes up...
Pixel Health Introduces One Thread™: An AI-Powered Experience Layer for Unified Patient Access
Pixel Health unveiled One Thread™, an AI‑powered experience layer that sits above existing EMR and technology stacks to unify patient portals, apps, websites, and contact centers. The platform provides a universal patient identity, personalized interactions, and automated workflow coordination while...
How Health Systems Are Tackling Behavioral Health Fragmentation
Health systems are confronting fragmented behavioral‑health delivery through multiple tactics, including rapid expansion of telepsychiatry, creation of integrated pediatric health hubs, and the launch of dedicated behavioral‑health urgent‑care sites. In West Virginia, virtual visits now account for just over half...