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The federal government of Australia recently announced that it will invest A$5M to facilitate the implementation of PainChek’s pain recognition app in Australian residential aged care centres (RAC’s).
Established in the US in 2013, Shanghai-headquartered QTC Care, a healthcare platform that uses AI to streamline treatment recovery and disease prevention, announced that it has raised $7M in series A funding.
Chatbots, symptom checkers and other AI healthcare guidance services should take a page from Amazon and others on to engage users, experts say.
Also: Sensor system monitors Parkinson's medication fluctions; Babylon Health ramps up North America hires.
Aidoc, an Israel-based provider of AI solutions for radiologists, announced that it has raised $27M, bringing its total funding to $40M.
Also: New funding rounds for Enlitic, Diameter Health and Candid.
Governor Charlie Baker said that while AI has great potential it is important for healthcare to keep privacy and implementation hurdles top of mind.
The Series A round comes just half a year after the Columbus, Ohio-based startup's prior fundraise.
An exploratory whitepaper dropped yesterday lays out a framework that the FDA hopes to present in a future draft guidance.
At the MEDinIsrael conference in Tel Aviv, Director of Analytics and Big Data Dr. Lena Granovsky talked about technology, big data, and analytics' growing role at the company.