The U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence endorsed the Qb Test by Qbtech AB of Stockholm to aid in diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in those aged 6 to 17.
The U.S. Medicare program has a notorious problem with regard to coverage of digital products and software as a service, but the agency is dependent on Congress to add new benefit categories via legislation.
The U.S. FDA gave the 510(k) green light to Echo IQ Ltd.’s Echosolv AS for its AI-enabled software as a medical device to be used as a decision support aid in detecting severe aortic stenosis.
A collaborating team of researchers from the U.K.’s University College London and the Incliva Biomedical Research Institute in Valencia, Spain, filed for protection of a machine learning model called AMMON-OHE to predict occurrence of overt hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis of the liver.
Mental tech startup Doctorpresso Co. Ltd. launched an audio journaling mobile application called Redi, in South Korea, as a voice analysis software capable of detecting depression through artificial intelligence-aided speech analysis.
Australia is the skin cancer capital of the world, but with a shortage of dermatologists, patients often wait too long to get skin checks that could end up costing them their lives.
The U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence reported that mental health professionals experienced a dramatic increase in referrals for anxiety and depression over the past decade but noted that digital therapies might help manage the caseload, representing a significant opportunity for developers of these products.
Australia is the skin cancer capital of the world, but with a shortage of dermatologists, patients often wait too long to get skin checks that could end up costing them their lives.
Days ahead of its contentious annual shareholders’ meeting slated for Sept. 19, Masimo Corp. established partnerships with two big players – Google LLC and Qualcomm Technologies Inc. – to significantly expand and support the ecosystem for Wear OS smartwatches by developing a next-generation smartwatch reference platform for original equipment manufacturers.
The U.S. FDA approved Apple Inc.’s Airpods Pro 2 as an over-the-counter assistive hearing device for adults with mild-to-moderate hearing loss, making the ubiquitous devices the first assistive hearing technology to receive this designation.