Samsung announced its plans to acquire French medtech startup Sonio. The startup’s AI platform, which was cleared by the FDA last year, automates ultrasound reporting so that healthcare providers can conduct these exams with greater accuracy and efficiency.
Samsung struck a partnership with IrisVision, a company that makes headsets for users with low vision. Samsung will help the company roll out its technology worldwide.
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
Technology companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle and Twitter are making inroads in healthcare. But will their efforts gain traction and scale? At HLTH, representatives from some of these companies will take part in the healthcare transformation conversation across AI, voice, diabetes management and more.
A remote cardiac rehab program developed by Samsung and Kaiser Permanente showed improved outcomes for cardiac patients in terms of higher program completion rates and lower heart failure hospital readmissions.
With the new feature, members have the ability to link their Apple, Fitbit or Samsung smartwatches to the company's app to receive health information on their wrist and share activity information back with Livongo to better personalize activity and health suggestions.
Virtual reality has evolved from being a technological novelty to a legitimate clinical tool in areas like chronic pain management and neurological rehab, leading experts to think through how best to integrate VR into healthcare.
3D medical animation services have emerged as a groundbreaking tool in the healthcare industry, revolutionizing the way medical concepts are taught, understood, and marketed.
The company's new Galaxy Active smartwatch upgrades its Galaxy Watch capabilities with increased health monitoring capabilities including blood pressure tracking, alongside standard fitness wearable features like heart rate monitoring and sleep and step tracking.
Anthem members with a Samsung Galaxy device and the updated Samsung Health app can now access LiveHealth Online, a telehealth service powered by American Well's technology.
A panel discussion at the Eye for Pharma conference in Philadelphia this week reflected how pharma companies such as GSK and Novartis are improving the way they use technology and lessons they've learned as data science becomes a driving force behind their businesses.
#CES2018 was chock-full of new technologies to check out on the healthcare front. But despite the overwhelming amount of booths and presentations, a few key trends emerged out of the Digital Health Summit.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
Although employer wellness programs have received mixed reviews, they can make the user experience for wearables owners stickier, creating an added incentive for technology companies to align themselves with insurers.
The picks span telecom giants to medtech companies but also include smaller companies with novel technologies such as digital therapeutics developer Pear Therapeutics and Tidepool -- an open source technology developer to support diabetes management, .
Samsung and UCHealth in Colorado are teaming up to tackle some of the biggest hurdles related to health IT.
Dr. David Rhew, chief medical officer with Samsung Electronics America took part in a Q&A by email on how Samsung is enlisting telemedicine, virtual reality and other digital health technologies. Rhew will deliver a keynote talk at MedCity INVEST conference this month.
As the healthcare industry looks for opioid alternatives, Samsung is working with a digital health startup to use virtual reality to relieve anxiety and pain in clinical studies at Cedars-Sinai.