BodySpec Partners with Longevity Telehealth Clinic on DEXA Scans
Hone Health, an AI‑enabled telehealth clinic focused on longevity, has integrated BodySpec’s clinical‑grade DEXA body composition scans into its patient app. The partnership lets users purchase scans directly, view detailed metrics such as lean muscle, visceral fat, bone density and resting metabolic rate, and receive clinician‑reviewed interpretations. By combining imaging data with hormone and metabolic markers, Hone aims to personalize care plans and intervene earlier. The move reflects a broader shift toward preventive, biology‑focused healthcare driven by growing longevity investments.
Keebler Health Raises $16M for AI Risk Adjustment Platform
Keebler Health, a North Carolina AI‑enabled risk adjustment startup, announced a $16 million Series A round, bringing its total capital raised to $23 million. The round was led by Flare Capital Partners with participation from a slate of venture firms including Sands Capital...
Helping Healthcare IT Teams Do More and Avoid Burnout
UVA Health’s chief technology officer, Zeb Elliott, used the HIMSS Executive Connect program to redesign how his IT department engages staff. By adopting agile sprint cycles, mental‑health check‑ins, and automation tools, the team lifted output while curbing overtime. The changes...
AWS Launches Amazon Bio Discovery for AI-Powered Scientific Experimentation
Amazon Web Services unveiled Amazon Bio Discovery, a cloud‑based platform that supplies scientists with a curated library of biological foundation models (bioFMs) for generating and evaluating drug molecules. The service lets researchers train custom models on their own experimental data...
NHIT INSPIRED Takes Students From Mentorship to Employment
NHIT INSPIRED, launched by NHIT and HIMSS, pairs college students with HIMSS mentors and health‑tech industry partners. The initiative aims to bridge the clinical workforce gap by providing real‑world experience and networking opportunities. Early participants have already secured entry‑level positions...
Exclusive: Redesign Health-Backed Starfire Launches to Help Pharma Commercialize Therapies
Starfire, backed by Redesign Health, has launched an agentic commercial intelligence platform aimed at helping pharmaceutical and biotech firms commercialize therapies. The AI‑driven system overlays both external and internal data to automate patient‑journey analyses, cost‑outcome models, and executive‑ready presentations. Redesign...
Stryker to Acquire Amplitude Vascular Systems for Peripheral Vascular Portfolio
Stryker has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Amplitude Vascular Systems, bringing the latter’s intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) technology into its peripheral vascular portfolio. Amplitude’s CO₂‑generated pressure‑wave balloon catheter targets heavily calcified arteries, promising faster, more efficient revascularization. The companies will...
Sibel Health Wins FDA Clearance for Maternal-Fetal Monitoring Platform
Sibel Health announced FDA 510(k) clearance for ANNE Maternal, a wireless wearable that continuously monitors a pregnant woman's vital signs, fetal heart rate, and uterine activity. The platform adds visual and audio alarms plus an automated Modified Early Obstetric Warning...
Q&A: WestBridge Capital on AI-Driven Consolidation of Power, Startup Survival
WestBridge Capital’s Kamal Singh says AI chatbots like Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT Health will displace generic wellness and nutrition digital‑health startups, but specialized solutions with proprietary data will survive. He predicts a consolidation where a few platform‑centric AI firms...
TEFCA Can Enable Patient-Centered Data Exchange
University of Iowa Health Care’s Josh Wilda highlighted that the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) could go beyond provider‑to‑provider connectivity to unify the nation’s fragmented patient portals. By establishing a single, standards‑based access point, patients would retrieve their...
b.well Announces Partnerships with Noom, Humana, Welldoc
b.well Connected Health announced strategic integrations with Noom, Welldoc and Humana, linking each to its national health data network under the CMS Health Technology Ecosystem. Humana will receive real‑time member data to streamline claims and provider queries. Welldoc’s AI‑driven cardiometabolic...
Korea OKs First Gen AI-Powered CXR Reporting Tool
South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) granted Class III approval to Soombit.ai’s AIRead‑CXR, the nation’s first generative AI‑powered software for draft chest‑X‑ray reporting. The vision‑language model was trained on more than 14 million chest X‑ray studies and can identify...
AI-Enabled Smart Sensor Identifies Fatigue
Researchers at the National University of Singapore unveiled an AI‑enabled smart sensor that detects fatigue with 92% accuracy, a jump from 64% using conventional sensors. The metahydrogel‑based platform combines nanoparticle vibration damping and liquid filtering to deliver an ECG signal‑to‑noise...
CorTec Becomes First German BCI Company to Get FDA Breakthrough Designation
The U.S. FDA granted Breakthrough Device designation to CorTec GmbH’s Brain Interchange, a fully implantable brain‑computer interface aimed at stroke rehabilitation. The system combines cortical signal recording with adaptive electrical stimulation in a closed‑loop platform to restore motor function. CorTec...
Q&A: The Slack Channels Powering CMS' Interoperability Framework
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched an Interoperability Framework that relies on public Slack channels to bring together a broad coalition of health‑tech firms, consultants, and government agencies. By inviting any interested party to join as...
