OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and AI safety and research company Anthropic announced the formation of the Frontier Model Forum, a body that will focus on ensuring the safe and responsible development of large-scale machine learning models that are capable of surpassing the capabilities of current AI models, also known as frontier models.
The partners are looking for organizations to join the Forum...
The Google Pixel Watch, announced in March, included the addition of fall detection capabilities, which uses sensors to determine if a user has taken a hard fall and then subsequently alerts emergency services upon being prompted by the user or when no response from the user is received.
In part two of our two-part series, Edward Shi, product manager on the personal safety team of Android and...
Healthcare insurer Blue Shield of California announced a multi-year cloud development plan with tech giant Microsoft to offer its members an integrated data hub, dubbed the Experience Cube, that runs on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.
The Experience Cube will utilize Azure's analytics and storage capabilities to tie together near real-time member, provider and payer data, aiming to create more...
2023 will be known, sadly, as the year millions of Americans were removed from Medicaid. As states reset their Medicaid eligibility rules post-pandemic, more rapid “unwinding” out of the gate is being seen than was predicted.
Even though the public health emergency, which guaranteed continuous coverage for enrollees, just ended in May, 3,289,000 people on Medicaid have been disenrolled as of July...
Tech giant Google announced in March that it added fall detection capabilities to its Pixel Watch, which uses sensors to determine if a user has taken a hard fall.
If the watch doesn't sense a user's movement for around 30 seconds, it vibrates, sounds an alarm and displays prompts for a user to select if they're okay or need assistance. The watch notifies emergency services if no response is...
Maternity-care management platform Dorsata filed a lawsuit in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Civil Court yesterday against healthcare technology company athenahealth and nationwide women's health company Unified Women's Healthcare, alleging 11 counts against the providers, including theft of trade secrets, unjust enrichment, breach of contract and tortious interference with current customers. ...
A research team from the Tokyo University of Science has designed a novel sweat sensor for continuous monitoring of lactate, which is helpful for predicting muscle fatigue.
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In a study, researchers address a common issue in existing microfluidic technologies: when used to monitor sweat biomarkers, microfluidic channels tend to trap air bubbles, thus getting the measurement...
Home-based cancer care platform Reimagine Care announced it is partnering with in-home care provider DispatchHealth to provide virtual-to-home care for oncology patients.
Reimagine Care partners with providers and health plans to coordinate care in the home to avoid unnecessary inpatient visits. Reimagine clinicians can remotely monitor patients, work with oncologists to determine whether...
MediView XR, a medtech company utilizing augmented reality, announced it received FDA 510(k) clearance for its AR surgical navigation system dubbed XR90.
XR90 is an augmented reality visualization and surgical navigation platform that allows providers to see a patient's internal soft tissues, vascular, organ and skeletal structures in 3D based on their CT images.
It also combines CT imaging with...
Digital therapeutics company Big Health announced it acquired Limbix, a maker of prescription digital therapeutics aimed at treating depression in teens and young adults.
Limbix is the creator of SparkRx, a PDTx that uses the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy to address depression in teens and young adults ages 13 to 22.
The self-guided CBT-based treatment was released in October 2021...
