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Spanish home care startup Senniors raised $5.6 million, and health benefits company Thatch launched with more than $6 million raised in pre-seed and seed funding.

The funds will be used to expand its research and development teams in the U.S. and Israel.

With the rise of digital health solutions, the healthcare industry has an opportunity to reimagine care delivery – and the Digital Medicine Society’s Applied Digital Health Ethics course is ready to prepare healthcare professionals for this new future.

In discussing health IT trends in 2023, AJ Missaghi, CTO for Healthcare & Life Sciences at Dell Technologies APAC and Japan, says the data explosion resulting in wider use of wearable devices will improve patient experience.

The Digital Medicine Society partnered with digital health and pharma players like the FDA, Janssen, GSK, Medable and THREAD to build a toolkit aimed at improving diversity in digital research.

Data is collected via a sensor on a user's chin during sleep and analyzed using AI to aid in diagnosing sleep apnea or other sleep-related conditions.

Virtual care can help fill gaps left by specialist deserts across the country as well as provider shortages, says Kuldeep Singh Rajput, CEO of Biofourmis, a tech vendor turned telemedicine provider organization. 

A WTW survey of 232 U.S. employers revealed 88% of respondents plan to change their vendor partnerships in the next two years.

The electronics giant said this is the first time the Natural Cycles fertility algorithm has been adapted for a smartwatch.

Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Saudi Arabia, is working to make great advances in healthcare for the kingdom. Dr. Tamara Sunbul, medical director of clinical informatics, explains.