Background: Chatbots are an emerging technology that show potential for mental health care apps to enable effective and practical evidence-based therapies. As this technology is still relatively new, little is known about recently developed…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) based algorithms for classification of suspicious skin lesions have been implemented in mobile phone apps (mHealth), but their effect on healthcare systems is undocumented. In 2019, a large Dutch health insurance…
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Fertility tracking app Premom, owned by Easy Healthcare, came under fire by the Federal Trade Commission, which alleged the company shared consumers’ health data with third parties like Google, AppsFlyer and two China-based analytics…
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Background: Mobile health interventions are common in public health settings in Africa, and our preliminary work showed that smartphones are increasing in South Africa. We developed a novel smartphone app—CareConekta—that used GPS location data…
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Vitality has completed a pilot that found its health insurance members who used conversational AI support through the Wysa app demonstrated clinically significant reductions in anxiety and depression symptoms.A cohort of 60,000 UK VitalityHealth…
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California-based virtual care company Included Health is partnering with Denver-based in-home care provider DispatchHealth to add a virtual-to-in-home care model to its offerings. Included Health delivers healthcare benefits and insurance navigation services as well as…
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Florence has announced the launch of its new app ‘Florence for Business’, designed to help tackle the staffing crisis currently gripping the healthcare industry. The new app further elevates Florence’s offering for care homes, NHS…
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Speech recognition technology company Voiceitt announced its partnering with video conferencing platform Webex by Cisco to make virtual meetings more accessible for individuals with speech impairments.Voiceitt offers an AI-based speech recognition app for individuals…
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GP practices are being encouraged to join a new national online service making registering patients quicker and easier. More than 900 GP practices – around one in seven nationally (14%) – have already enrolled for the…
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by Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions 05/15/2023 Leave a CommentWhat You Should Know:Validic has acquired the assets of Trapollo LLC, a connected health, technical support, and device logistics provider that helps healthcare organizations care for…
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