Otsuka Precision Health Inc. and Click Therapeutics Inc. pondered the signature question of cognitive behavioral therapy when setting the market approach for their jointly developed prescription digital therapeutic for major depressive disorder, Rejoyn.

Neurotech startup Synchron Inc. connected its brain implant to Apple’s Vision Pro headset, enabling patients with limited physical mobility to control the device using only their thoughts. Synchron is building an endovascular brain-computer interface designed to help patients with paralysis operate technology like smartphones and computers with their minds.

The $80 million in financing that Huma Therapeutics Ltd. recently raised is a testament to where the company is and what it achieved at a time when the digital health industry is struggling to raise significant financing, Mert Aral, chief medical officer at Huma, told BioWorld.

Artificial intelligence might solve a world of cost issues for medical science, but the results of a recent study suggest that the day has not yet come when hospitals and doctor’s offices can just feed data into a computer and expect a reliable and intelligible diagnosis.

Regulation of artificial intelligence for medical devices is still a developing space, but market competition authorities in the European Union, the U.K. and the U.S. are already examining the potential for anticompetitive behavior in this rapidly growing technological arena.

Paige AI Inc.’s partnership with Microsoft Corp., announced last September, appears to have paid off quickly, with a study published in Nature Medicine demonstrating that their jointly developed image-based artificial intelligence model, Virchow, detects 16 cancer types as well or better than tissue-specific clinical-grade models.

Australia’s Department of Health has released a new Aged Care Digital Strategy to increase the use of digital technology to enhance the care and wellbeing of older people in aged care facilities. By 2062, the number of people over 65 is expected to more than double, and the number of people over the age of 85 will more than triple. Australia’s aged care workforce is already under strain and will need to increase to meet this demand, a 2023 intergenerational report said.

Airs Medical Inc., of Seoul, South Korea, raised $20 million in a series C financing round to expand its artificial intelligence-based health care technology, including for better and faster magnetic resonance imaging scans for radiologists and patients.

AI-focused medical diagnostics company Spectral AI Inc. is collaborating with burn wound therapy company Polynovo Ltd. to test limited deployment of Spectral’s Deepview system for predicting burn healing in Australia.

The first patenting from South Korea’s Neudive Inc. sees its CEO, SungJa Cho, applying for protection of the company’s mobile digital social therapy device, NDTx-01, which helps build the social skills of neurodiverse individuals, and in particular children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and social communication disorder.