Virtual care
Grindr is acquiring health startup Freddie for US$250m in its first major acquisition, expanding into HIV-prevention telehealth and pharmacy services. The dating app plans to integrate Freddie’s services into Grindr Health, which brings its healthcare offerings together through an in-app portal. Freddie provides telehealth access to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), medication taken before exposure to [...]
Implicity has raised €35m to expand its cardiac monitoring platform internationally, with a focus on the US and further development of its AI capabilities. The Paris-based health tech company plans to use the funding to scale its commercial operations and develop its next generation of heart failure prediction algorithms. Implicity specialises in remote cardiac monitoring [...]
Hope Care has raised US$7m in Series A funding to expand its remote patient monitoring business across Europe. The Portuguese start-up develops OpMA, a regulated remote patient monitoring and telehealth platform that combines data from medical devices, patient-reported information and clinical workflows. The platform supports monitoring programmes for a range of chronic diseases. [...]
By James Hitchen, patent attorney, HGF A single telehealth consultation may involve a patient's phone in Manchester, a clinician's terminal in Madrid, an inference model running on cloud infrastructure in Virginia, and a device manufacturer's telemetry service in Bengaluru. The technology is built to ignore borders. However, the patents protecting it cannot, as each of [...]
Cera, the home healthcare company that pairs artificial intelligence and robotics with frontline care visits, has added US$100m in annualised recurring revenue (ARR) in just 100 days, as it continues its expansion across the UK's care sector. The company said it was now delivering 3m patient home visits every month - a figure it says [...]
A portable blood test could allow patients to monitor their health at home through an app, potentially reducing some hospital or GP visits. King’s College London spinout Algocyte has developed the small blood-testing device that connects via Bluetooth and uses AI to build a picture of an individual’s health over time. The technology could be [...]
A digital referral service helping children reach mental health and neurodevelopmental support faster will expand from Calderdale to Leeds this autumn. Yorkshire charity Northpoint is rolling out the service’s next phase in partnership with health technology company Aire Innovate and with support from local NHS commissioners. The work builds on Northpoint Navigator, a redesigned digital [...]
Withings has acquired Biosency, expanding its remote monitoring capabilities for patients with respiratory insufficiency. The connected health company said the deal supports its ambition to build an independent European business serving changing healthcare systems. Founded in Rennes in 2017, Biosency has developed a modular remote monitoring system for patients with respiratory insufficiency and their caregivers. [...]
Ladder Health has raised US$7m to expand its virtual paediatric therapy service and cut waiting times for children with developmental needs. The Boston-based company said the oversubscribed seed round will support expansion across North Carolina, Massachusetts and Maryland, as well as entry into additional states. It will also fund further investment in its AI-enabled care [...]
An international study is using smartphones and wearables to improve digital heart monitoring, with an additional pathway planned for people with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Researchers from Imperial College London’s National Heart and Lung Institute have joined UK collaborators and the Stanford University team behind the My Heart Counts app. The study aims to help [...]
