For Sam Shames, co-founder and COO of Embr Labs, a degree of renown has followed the Boston-based technology startup since it launched in 2017 with the Embr Wave, a wrist-worn device designed to provide comfort through thermal energy. Unlike traditional watches, the Wave uses algorithms...
New Mountain Capital is reportedly combining three HealthTech firms in a $3 billion deal. The merger is designed to employ artificial intelligence (AI) to help improve payments from health plans to providers, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Sept. 5). According to the report, the deal will bring...
Healthcare payments firm RevSpring has added its Arrived and PersonaPay solutions to Oracle’s Healthcare Marketplace. “RevSpring’s Arrived and PersonaPay provide patient self-service and staff-assisted tools for scheduling, patient intake, and payments, creating one coordinated experience for patients and clinicians without leaving the workflow,” the company...
Lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic are racing to establish artificial intelligence (AI) regulations, with California poised to vote on strict AI oversight as the U.S. Congress considers a “regulatory sandbox” for financial services. Meanwhile, the European Union’s AI Act is set to transform...
July 29, 2024
Digital innovation, no matter the sector, relies on scalable, secure and interoperable technological infrastructure. Within healthcare, where innovation is often spoken about but rarely fully realized at scale, those needs are crucial to transforming — and standardizing — the way care and research are delivered and experienced. “There is so much disparity between one geography […]
July 04, 2024
During the pandemic, they were heroes. Now, they’re apparently expendable. In what is becoming a pattern in healthcare, on Tuesday (July 2), Oregon Health & Science University cut a telehealth nursing...
March 01, 2024
The connected economy now has a mirror. A “smart” mirror of course, powered by artificial intelligence (AI). After winning the “smart home” category for eight years running at the Consumer...
February 16, 2024
From the advent of digital health platforms and the proliferation of wearable health devices to remote patient monitoring and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical decision-making, advancements in...
December 05, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) startup iGenius said it is building one of the world’s largest Nvidia DGX AI supercomputers with Nvidia Grace Blackwell superchips and will use it to deploy AI models for financial services, healthcare and public sector customers around the world. The supercomputer, dubbed iGenius Colosseum, will be located in Europe and is expected to deliver 115 […]
September 05, 2024
New Mountain Capital is reportedly combining three HealthTech firms in a $3 billion deal. The merger is designed to employ artificial intelligence (AI) to help improve payments from health plans...
August 21, 2024
Healthcare payments firm RevSpring has added its Arrived and PersonaPay solutions to Oracle’s Healthcare Marketplace. “RevSpring’s Arrived and PersonaPay provide patient self-service and staff-assisted tools for scheduling, patient intake, and...
August 14, 2024
PayZen has raised $232 million for its AI-powered healthcare affordability program. The Series B funding, led by NEA and announced Tuesday (Aug. 13), came in the form of $32 million...
