The financing round was led by Concord Health Partners, with AlbaCore Capital Group and Hambro Perks also contributing. The latest haul follows a $125 million raise that the company announced in October.
The money will also boost Akili’s expansion into treatments for major depressive disorder and cognitive decline associated with multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Gaming in healthcare has a new supporter in funnyman Will Ferrell, who’s the face of a new crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a charity that provides video games to children with cancer. Ferrell’s offering up the chance to win a one-on-one gaming session that will be broadcast live on video platform Twitch in exchange […]
Novo Nordisk teamed up with UK digital healthcare agency emotive to put together a neat diabetes education tool that allows healthcare professionals to get a glimpse inside the body of hypothetical patient.
Here’s another addition to the list of potential health applications for Oculus Rift. Last fall video game artist Pri Firstenberg got ahold of an early version of the virtual reality headset for her grandmother, who was dying from cancer and unable to leave home. She filmed the above video of her grandmother, Roberta, trying some […]
When I was in grade school, kids got in trouble for playing with their Giga Pets and Tamagotchis in class. While a smartphone is more likely to be the culprit these days, the idea hasn’t changed: Kids love games. Mobile health gaming startup LifeGuard Games wanted to combine the stickiness of mobile devices with that […]
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
If tech startups like Paofit have their way, people will no longer be able to cite boredom as an excuse not to exercise. Paofit is combining high-definition video with avatars and mobile technology to turn the treadmill into a virtual reality experience that takes runners and walkers through courses all over the world. The app, […]
I probably looked ridiculous, sitting in a Starbucks waving two brightly colored bean bags through the air, eyes glued to my computer screen. But Israeli entrepreneur Eran Arden wanted to demonstrate the developmental therapy games for children he’s hoping to bring to the U.S. later this year. The platform is called Timocco, and it was […]
The patient pictured above is playing a game on Microsoft Kinect where she’s paddling and steering down a river, swatting bats inside a cave, grabbing things out of the river and catching parachutes of supplies. She’s had a stroke and, as a result, has impaired motor function in her right hand. The game she’s playing […]
Ten years ago, it would have seemed strange that a health insurance company would want to encourage children to play video games. With today’s healthcare gaming culture, though, it makes total sense. Cigna thinks every young cancer patient should have access to Re-Mission 2: Nanobot’s Revenge, a video game designed to empower kids to fight […]
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That gray feline avatar — that’s Shadow Cat. He’s a virtual comic book character that an early-stage Cleveland startup is turning into a tool to improve cognitive training, performance data collection and research for autism spectrum disorders. Tamar Medina and a pair of co-founders started J-LYNN Entertainment in 2011 to commercialize what they call video […]
Using the 150-year-old eye chart today is a little like riding a horse and buggy around town, as Richard Tirendi sees it. To bring vision screening up-to-date and remove some of the human variability and subjectivity in it, Tirendi and his eye surgeon friend reinvented the eye chart in the form of a computer game. […]
Galvanic, an Irish company, has married gaming with a Kickstarter campaign to score more than $100,000 for the PIP, a biosensor that measures fluctuating stress levels. The PIP is held between the fingertips and uses the gathered electrodermal activity measurements to chart stress and then sends the info via Bluetooth to an iOS or Android device. […]
Two-thirds of the 700,000 Americans who have a stroke each year survive and require rehabilitation. But fewer than one in three post-stroke patients undergoing physical therapy perform the at-home exercises their physical therapists recommend. A team of researchers at Ohio State University is using a $653,000 grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to develop […]
As the ground shifts under their very feet, savvy health insurers are figuring out that engaging consumers will be the key to succeeding long term. Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini has famously proclaimed the death of the insurance industry model as we know it. And the new model necessarily involves talking to consumers who historically maintain […]