Know What's Happening in HealthTech
Know What's Happening in HealthTech
In this episode, John Driscoll chats with Lekan Wang, a partner at AI‑first venture fund JSL Health Capital, about the evolution of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Wang traces his journey from early work at Palantir integrating disparate health data for the CDC to the modern AI boom driven by massive data, advanced compute, and transformer models. He explains why today’s AI can finally tackle longstanding healthcare challenges such as administrative burden, access barriers, and drug discovery, citing examples like Symphony’s AI‑driven medicinal chemistry platform. Wang also outlines JSL’s investment focus on AI‑first companies that can deliver measurable clinical and operational improvements.
Researchers at Technion’s Levenberg Laboratory have created a first‑of‑its‑kind three‑dimensional implant that merges muscle, fat, a hierarchical blood vessel network and, uniquely, a lymphatic system. The construct is printed with a custom extracellular‑matrix bio‑ink and matured in a flow‑controlled bioreactor....
Healthcare e‑commerce is expanding rapidly, but its transactions must juggle payment security, regulatory compliance, prescription verification, and complex logistics. The article outlines eight strategic pillars—including PCI DSS‑compliant checkout, end‑to‑end encryption, AI‑driven order validation, cold‑chain shipping, and seamless EHR integration—to create...
PocDoc and The Brooke Surgery in Hyde have launched a week‑long mass cardiovascular disease (CVD) screening program in Greater Manchester, deploying a mobile Neighbourhood Testing Bus to reach 1,000 patients between 2‑9 March. The region records the highest CVD death...
XCath is integrating NVIDIA Isaac for Healthcare into its autonomous telerobotic endovascular platform, creating digital twins of the robot, treatment devices, and patient vasculature. The digital‑twin rehearsal lets surgeons practice on a patient‑specific 3‑D model before the actual mechanical thrombectomy,...
Seven South West Integrated Care Boards will launch the NEC Rego electronic referral service in 2026, extending to Dorset in 2027. The platform will handle about 160,000 dental referrals annually across 12 pathways, covering 5.5 million residents, 900+ practices and 1,000...
Health systems are turning to outsourced tech support to boost patient portal adoption, as only 15%‑30% of patients currently use portal features. The primary barrier is not the technology but the lack of accessible, multilingual assistance for diverse patient populations....
Healthcare societies representing radiologists, technologists, physicists and nuclear medicine wrote to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services urging a fix to costly, outdated image‑sharing practices. They highlighted that despite broad adoption of the DICOM standard, inconsistent implementation forces...
Some experts do not think OpenClaw is relevant to AI in healthcare. They are wrong. OpenClaw represents us phase shifting in the way we relate to AI systems again. We are moving past promting a chatbot to ask a question so...
Will smartwatches measuring blood pressure hold up against other types of blood pressure monitors? I discuss it in this short video. https://t.co/vb09Bdo346
Scientists at University College London have engineered bio‑grown oesophageal segments using patient‑derived stem cells and implanted them into minipigs, restoring normal swallowing. The grafts were seeded onto decellularized scaffolds, covered with a biodegradable mesh, and integrated functional muscle, nerves, and...
Katie Jacobs Stanton, former Yahoo, Google and Twitter executive, transitioned into healthcare investing after a stint as CMO at Color Genomics. In 2019 she founded Moxxie Ventures, focusing on early‑stage AI‑driven health companies such as Dandelion Health, Pharos Health, Luminai...
PreSeed Fertility launched a recruitment and matching platform to address the stark gap between the over 100,000 U.S. families searching for sperm donors and the roughly 1,500 donors currently registered. The service pairs families with a concierge specialist and provides...
Electronic health record (EHR) implementations are often treated as pure technology projects, yet they represent enterprise‑wide operational transformations. In multi‑clinic health systems, divergent intake, documentation, and billing processes create hidden complexities that surface after go‑live when operational leadership is absent....
The FDA has cleared Mammotome’s Mammotome Prima MR Dual Vacuum‑Assisted Breast Biopsy System and its HydroMARK Plus MR biopsy site marker, marking the first in‑room MR‑guided biopsy solution. The system positions the vacuum‑assisted device beside the patient in the scanner, reduces...
Lifepoint Health partnered with AI‑driven Eon to launch the Eon Breast platform, extending incidental‑finding management across its 80‑hospital network. The solution consolidates screening and incidental alerts, enabling early detection of breast and other cancers and has been deployed in 53...
Corcym’s next‑generation Perceval Plus LANCELOT surgical aortic valve received FDA approval in May 2025. In September 2025, a CHI Health team performed the first U.S. implantation, and the patient fully recovered. The valve adds laser‑cut leaflets, thread holes, and a zero‑pressure fixation...
Aspen Valley Health, a Colorado critical access hospital, has become an Epic host for other rural providers through Epic’s Community Connect program. After abandoning a large‑system partnership in 2017, the hospital implemented Epic independently and now ranks near the top...
Basecamp Research announced the launch of its Trillion Gene Atlas, a project to collect and model genomic data from over 100 million species, expanding known genetic diversity a hundred‑fold. Backed by $85 million in venture funding, the initiative partners with Anthropic, Ultima...
More news on the health front. And oh boy, be careful... -> Perplexity launches Perplexity Health agent in US "Perplexity is preparing to enter the consumer health AI space with Perplexity Health, a dedicated section within its app that would...
Intel’s latest discussion highlights AI‑powered care navigation as a solution to fragmented patient journeys, especially for complex diagnoses. The conversation, featuring Digital Medicine Society CEO Jennifer Goldsack and Intel’s Alex Flores, underscores how legacy IT systems and data silos impede...
Canaccord lowered its price target for Neuronetics (NASDAQ:STIM) to $3 from $7, maintaining a Buy rating as the stock trades around $1.18, down 75% year‑to‑date. The downgrade coincides with the appointment of Dan Reuvers as CEO and a mixed fourth‑quarter...
Perplexity AI has partnered with b.well Connected Health to let users securely link their electronic health records to the search engine. b.well’s extensive FHIR‑based network spans over 2.4 million providers and 350+ health plans, providing cleaned, standardized data through its 13‑step...
Dermatology Partners, a large physician‑owned dermatology group, deployed EliseAI's agentic voice AI to handle its 2,000‑4,000 daily inbound calls. The system integrates with AdvancedMD and Modernizing Medicine EHR, allowing the AI to schedule appointments and capture simple clinical tasks. Early...
CMS is piloting a new patient‑centric data exchange model that uses biometric authentication to unlock electronic health records and QR codes to transmit them securely. Amy Gleason, administrator at U.S. DOGE Service and CMS strategic advisor, outlined how the approach...
The Defense Health Agency (DHA) has launched a five‑year data strategy to create a secure, interoperable AI ecosystem for the Military Health System. Partnering with Red Hat, DHA is building cloud‑native infrastructure, data lakes, and governance frameworks that can safely scale...
Researchers at Chalmers University decoded leg movement intentions directly from peripheral nerves of above‑knee amputees using ultrathin neural implants and a spiking neural network AI. The system accurately identified knee, ankle and toe motions and provided bidirectional sensory feedback through...
Researchers at Graz University of Technology unveiled VRSpi, a neuroadaptive virtual‑reality system that reads EEG and heart‑rate signals to automatically adjust spider exposure intensity. The prototype uses frontal alpha asymmetry to gauge real‑time anxiety, ensuring stimuli are neither too weak...
Medable has launched Agent Studio, a no-code/low-code platform that lets pharmaceutical companies configure and deploy AI agents across the clinical trial lifecycle. The platform currently powers two agents—a document‑classification ETMF agent that processes over 80,000 records a year, and a...
AI-powered handheld X‑ray devices and molecular diagnostics are rapidly reshaping tuberculosis detection in low‑resource settings. The Global Fund now backs AI‑driven screening in more than 22 countries, while Indonesia has moved treatment initiation to over 460 primary health centers, reducing...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Breakthrough Device Designation to Nia Therapeutics’ Smart Neurostimulation System (SNS) for treating episodic memory loss in adults with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. The fully implantable, closed‑loop system records neural activity from...
Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering clinical workflows, from diagnostic algorithms to administrative tools, but its adoption creates a new attack surface for cybercriminals. Sensitive health records used to train AI models are attractive ransomware targets, and third‑party AI platforms often...
Researchers analyzing Fitbit heart‑rate data from 14,489 participants in the All of Us study found that people who regularly exercised between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. had significantly lower odds of cardiometabolic diseases. Morning exercisers were 31% less likely to have coronary...
A new NHS‑first AI‑enabled case‑finding pathway has launched in North East Essex to detect oesophageal and gastric cancers earlier. The programme, built on the C the Signs platform, analyses routine electronic health records and patient‑reported data to flag high‑risk individuals....
Apple senior director Brian Lynch, who has overseen the company's home‑device hardware since 2022, has accepted a senior vice‑president role at Oura Health Oy. The move adds to a wave of senior departures from Apple’s home‑hardware group and underscores Oura’s...
Mave Health, a 2023 health‑tech startup, secured $2.1 million in seed funding led by Blume Ventures to commercialize its mental‑health wearable headset. The device uses low‑intensity transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to improve focus, mood and stress regulation, and is now...
Researchers from Oxford and Tanzania have validated a liquid‑biopsy blood test that identifies EBV‑positive Burkitt lymphoma with 98% accuracy. The assay cut the diagnostic timeline by an average of 40 days, allowing most patients to start therapy within a week of...
In episode 383 of #AskMikeReinold, physical therapists discuss how AI—especially ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and niche tools like OpenEvidence—is being woven into daily practice. They highlight OpenEvidence’s ability to surface PubMed‑linked research with minimal hallucinations, while ChatGPT and Gemini assist with treatment...
Health systems are tackling the pervasive problem of administrative waste by focusing on four key strategies: strengthening payment oversight with payment‑integrity technology to catch billing errors early; aligning new digital tools with actual clinical workflows to avoid added complexity; fostering...
Modern dental technologies are reshaping root canal treatment, making it faster, safer, and more predictable. Three‑dimensional CBCT imaging delivers precise diagnoses, while dental microscopes reveal hidden canals with unprecedented clarity. Nickel‑titanium rotary instruments and ultrasonic irrigation streamline cleaning and disinfection,...
Philips and Nvidia have unveiled an AI‑driven preview that generates a synthetic MRI image before the scan begins, using Philips' MR foundation model combined with Nvidia's NV‑Segment, NV‑Generate, and NV‑Reason tools. The preview ingests patient data and protocol settings to...
The U.S. FDA has extended its review of Lanteus’ PET imaging agent LNTH‑2501 by three months, moving the PDUFA target date to June 29. LNTH‑2501, a Ga‑68 edotreotide kit for detecting neuroendocrine tumors in adults and children, remains unapproved and...
Digital narratives on platforms like TikTok and Reddit are reshaping mental‑health outcomes by spreading misinformation and disinformation. A scoping review by the Royal College of Psychiatrists found that over half of top TikTok mental‑health videos contain misleading content, which erodes...
How many people will trust Fitbit enough to upload their medical records to it? Google just unveiled that if they do so, its AI health coach would review the records to generate responses and recommendations. It might be a pivotal point in...
health is pretty broad -- so when we turn it over to AI depends on the use case, starting where is the risk low and AI-knowledge high. Primary care is no-brainer for AI, today. Brain surgery is a full-brainer, so later.
AI replacing radiologists? @ShafiAhmed5 and I go at. A provocatively playful discussion... https://t.co/3MejjtUgSa #AI #radiology #medicine #digitalhealth https://t.co/GMj9HigoAI
Philips said it sees a near future where autonomous or “self-driving MRI” potentially becomes reality. https://t.co/LEH8CIIDgj
My Regulations dot gov comment analysis of 97 submissions on the Imaging Interop RFI is up and ready at https://t.co/fsO7u7hidD Quick summary article here...
HTI-5 may eliminate 34 certification criteria… But HTI-4 deadlines aren’t going anywhere. Are you ready for RTPB + ePA by 2028? Read the breakdown 🔗 https://t.co/NlwfwlKDwU @DrFirst #HTI5 #HITSM
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