‘I’m ready to embrace AI doctors’
Consultant paediatrician Martin Farrier faces a nightmarish future – and finds it reassuringly familiar
Lately I’ve been counting AI doctors like (electric) sheep as I attempt to drift off to sleep. And I blame…
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Why Claims Data Alone Leave Gaps in Understanding the Patient Journey
Noah Nasser, CEO at datma
In today’s precision medicine landscape, pharmaceutical companies and access teams face a critical challenge: understanding not just whether therapies work, but how they are accessed, adopted, and experienced by real-world…
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The Overlooked Connection Between GLP-1s, Obesity, and Eating Disorders
Gretchen Zimmermann, MBA, RD, VP of Clinical Strategy at Vida Health
The false belief that people with obesity do not have eating disorders is one of the most harmful misconceptions in obesity care. In reality,…
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Approaching health system-level IT redesign
What does it take for a private hospital group to become a blueprint for national health system digital maturity? At the upcoming HIMSS25 Asia-Pacific (APAC) Conference in July, Dr Kun-Ju Lin, deputy chief of Chang…
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Aussie AI scribe startup to go global with $12M funding
Melbourne-based startup Lyrebird Health has recently raised $12 million in new funding from a venture round led by Five V Capital and United Kingdom-based Octopus Ventures, with participation from Startmate. Launched in 2023, it offers…
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More accurate ageing clock relies only on clinical data
A new algorithm-based biological ageing clock developed in Singapore has shown potential to better predict mortality and health outcomes by only using clinical data. Researchers from the National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School…
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Multimodal model for the diagnosis of biliary atresia based on sonographic images and clinical parameters
It is still challenging to diagnose biliary atresia (BA) in current clinical practice. The study aimed to develop a multimodal model incorporated with uncertainty estimation by integrating sonographic images and clinical information to help…
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Sword Health raises $40M at $4B valuation, expands into mental health
Sword Health, which touts itself as shifting healthcare from human-first to AI-first through its AI care program, announced it has raised $40 million, bringing its total funding to $380 million and its valuation to…
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From Vision to Reality: PlatforMed Showcases How Platform-Driven Care is Transforming Medicine
At PlatforMed 2025, the fourth annual gathering focused on platform transformation in healthcare, one message resonated above all: a platform-based approach is no longer just aspirational — it’s delivering measurable, meaningful change.
Held June 3-4 at…
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