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Suicide prevention telehealth provider Vita Health receives $22.5M

  • January 10, 2024
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Connecticut-based suicide prevention telehealth platform Vita Health has secured $22.5 million in Series A funding.  LFE Capital, CVS Health Ventures, Athyrium Capital Management, Flare Capital Partners, Connecticut Innovations, CU Healthcare Innovation Fund and HopeLab participated in the round. WHAT IT DOES Vita Health connects telehealth providers with youth and adults contemplating suicide. The platform also […]

BMW nearly doubles its all-electric sales in 2023

  • January 10, 2024
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BMW iX2 xDrive30/Source: BMW BMW Group just released its sales numbers from 2023, and it was a very good year indeed. The automaker says it hit its target of 15% share of battery-electric vehicles – and expects to sell half a million BEVs in 2024. Last year, BMW sold 375,183 BEVs, up 74.4% year-over-year, representing […]

Health tech predictions for 2024

  • January 10, 2024
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Entering 2024, digital health technology stands on the brink of a major transformation. This shift is fuelled by breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, enhanced operational efficiency, seamless data integration, improved patient engagement, and innovative educational technologies. We spoke with a few leading health tech stakeholders, including an NHS clinician working at the coal face, to gather […]

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The Reveal: HTN Now Awards Finalists – htn

  • January 10, 2024
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From chief information officers to innovation directors, our fantastic team of judges have been busy deciding our winners! We are now delighted to share with you the finalists in the HTN Now Awards, and share the incredible entries we received for each category. Following hours of judging and our team’s writing-up, you can now delve […]

Can Fiat win over the hearts of Americans with its new, better 500e?

  • January 10, 2024
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Fiat’s new 2024 500e (source: Stellantis) To be frank, Americans don’t buy Fiats. The brand sold only a few hundred cars in the US last year. But Fiat hopes to – finally – charm the US with the “immersive Italian experience” of its upcoming Fiat 500e – Stellantis’s first all-electric car in the US. Unlike […]

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Researchers develop AI to make the internet more accessible

  • January 10, 2024
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In an effort to make the internet more accessible for people with disabilities, researchers at The Ohio State University have begun developing an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that could complete complex tasks on any website using simple language commands.  In the three decades since it was first released into the public domain, the internet has […]

Dr Jane Brightman joins Highland Marketing advisory board

  • January 10, 2024
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Dr Jane Brightman has joined the Highland Marketing advisory board, to bring a strong social care perspective to its debates on health and care technology and the guidance it provides to the agency and its clients. Dr Brightman, who recently became director of workforce strategy at Skills for Care after two-years as assistant director of […]

Centre could soon reduce the need for pharmaceutical trials on animals

  • January 10, 2024
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The University of Rochester in the US will house a new national centre focused on using tissue-on-chip technology to develop drugs more rapidly and reduce the need for animal Hani Awad, the Donald and Mary Clark Distinguished Professor in Orthopaedics and a professor of biomedical engineering, said that Congress passing the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 in 2022 made […]