Digital Health and Informatics | September Round-Up 2025

October 16, 2025
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Clinical Diagnostics

Disease Management / Digital Therapeutics

University of Melbourne researchers developed Baby Moves VIEW, a smartphone app using AI and video sharing to accelerate early cerebral palsy screening and intervention. Philips launched its next-generation Telemetry Monitor 5500 and platform to reduce alarm fatigue, optimize workflows, and extend cardiac monitoring beyond hospital discharge. Apple introduced Apple Watch Series 11 with new hypertension notifications and a sleep score feature, expanding its role in the consumer health space.

Informatics / Healthcare IT Solutions

Lila Sciences is advancing autonomous science with AI-driven “Science Factories” that generate hypotheses, design experiments, and iterate across materials, chemistry, and life sciences. Innovaccer has acquired Story Health to extend its Healthcare Intelligence Cloud into AI-assisted specialty care, enabling continuous patient engagement, improved medication adherence, and reduced hospitalizations. Abridge is partnering with Seattle Children’s to deploy its AI-powered ambient clinical intelligence platform systemwide, reducing documentation burden and enhancing pediatric care across inpatient, outpatient, and emergency settings.

Women’s Health / Femtech

Samsung has partnered with startup Galeon to integrate AI-powered ultrasound devices with a decentralized, blockchain-based EHR, improving women’s health diagnostics while preserving patient privacy. Visana Health raised $24 million to scale its virtual-first, whole-person women’s health clinic, expanding chronic condition management, AI-driven workflows, and employer partnerships to improve outcomes and reduce costs. Neura secured $11.4 million in Series A funding to expand its virtual neurology platform, offering nationwide access to board-certified neurologists, AI-supported workflows, symptom tracking, and memory care, addressing the neurology access gap amongst women and improving patient engagement.

Disease Management / Digital Therapeutics 

1 | New cerebral palsy screening app by the University of Melbourne improves accessibility and paves the way for early diagnosis

2 | Philips launches smart cardiac telemetry platform to improve monitoring and continuous care

3 | Apple unveils new Apple Watch Series 11 with hypertension alerts and sleep score

Informatics / Healthcare IT Solutions 

 1 | Lila Sciences raises $235M to Build Scientific Superintelligence Platform

2 | Innovaccer Acquires Story Health to Scale Continuous, AI-Driven Specialty Care

3 | Seattle Children’s Implements Abridge’s AI-Powered Platform to Streamline Pediatric Documentation

Women’s Health / Femtech 

1 | Samsung Partners with Web3-Based Healthcare Startup Galeon for Women’s Health Diagnostics

2 | Visana Health Raises $24M Series A to Build Virtual Women’s Health Clinic

3 | Neura raises $11.4M Series A for Neurological Care 

Disease Management / Digital Therapeutics 

1 | New cerebral palsy screening app by the University of Melbourne improves accessibility and paves the way for early diagnosis

The University of Melbourne has developed Baby Moves VIEW, a smartphone app designed to accelerate the early diagnosis of cerebral palsy by enabling parents to record and share videos of their infant’s movements from home. The app digitizes the General Movements Assessment (GMA), the first stage of screening, which typically requires in-person hospital visits, making it more accessible during the critical 12–16 week testing window. By integrating AI-driven video quality checks, secure data transmission, and a clinician review workflow, Baby Moves VIEW addresses barriers faced by families in rural or remote areas and reduces the average age of diagnosis. The app has been validated in over 20 international studies involving 10,000 families and is now being commercialized with $366,000 in funding from Australia’s Economic Accelerator program. The team aims to launch the app publicly within two years and ultimately secure government support to make early cerebral palsy screening universally available.

2 | Philips launches smart cardiac telemetry platform to improve monitoring and continuous care

Philips has launched a next-generation telemetry platform centered on the Telemetry Monitor 5500 to address key healthcare challenges such as staff shortages, alarm fatigue, and workflow inefficiencies in cardiac monitoring. The platform combines wearable monitors with advanced alarm filtering, data insights, and mobile-enabled workflows to improve clinical efficiency and patient safety. By integrating with Philips’ Central Monitoring Unit (CMU), it enables simplified workflows, scalable monitoring for high-acuity cases, retrospective analytics on alarm activity, and bedside coordination via the Care Assist mobile app. Beyond the hospital, Philips extends monitoring through its Mobile Cardiac Telemetry (MCOT), supporting up to 30 days of post-discharge cardiac surveillance for continuity of care. 

3 | Apple unveils new Apple Watch Series 11 with hypertension alerts and sleep score

Apple has unveiled the Apple Watch Series 11, combining its most advanced health capabilities with a thinner design and longer battery life. The device introduces novel hypertension notifications, using optical heart sensor data and machine learning to passively detect consistent signs of chronic high blood pressure, a leading risk factor for heart attack and stroke that often goes undiagnosed. Apple has also added sleep scoring to its growing list of Apple Watch features. Drawing on factors such as duration, consistency, awakenings, and time spent in each sleep stage, sleep score provides an overall rating with a detailed breakdown to help users identify priorities for improvement. Backed by guidance from sleep organizations and developed with over 5 million nights of study data, the feature integrates into the Sleep app, watch faces, and the Health app for long-term tracking.

Informatics / Healthcare IT Solutions 

1 | Lila Sciences raises $235M to build scientific superintelligence platform

Lila Sciences has raised $235M in a Series A, co-led by Braidwell and Collective Global, to advance its mission of building scientific superintelligence through a unified AI, software, and robotics platform. The funding combines Lila’s technological vision with the knowledge and long-term support of AI and science investors, enabling progress across life sciences, chemistry, and materials. By integrating AI-driven reasoning with real-world experimentation in its AI Science Factories, Lila is creating autonomous scientific systems capable of generating hypotheses, designing experiments, and iterating at scale and speed. These platforms aim to impact medicine, diagnostics, materials, energy, and computing by shortening research timelines and opening new paths for discovery. 

2 | Innovaccer acquires Story Health to scale continuous, AI-driven specialty care

Innovaccer Inc. has acquired Story Health to expand its Healthcare Intelligence Cloud with agentic care augmentation, transforming specialty care from episodic visits to continuous, AI-assisted management. The acquisition combines Innovaccer’s integrated healthcare operating system - including data unification, patient engagement, pharmacy and actuarial intelligence - with Story Health’s vertically integrated cardiovascular platform, which delivers AI-driven clinical pathways, advanced medication workflows, and human-led coaching. Together, the companies aim to reduce hospitalizations, improve medication adherence, and increase patient engagement while minimizing clinician burden. By embedding AI agents and health coaches into existing EHR workflows, Innovaccer and Story Health will enable scalable, continuous specialty care, extending proven outcomes in heart failure, hypertension, and atrial fibrillation across health systems.

3 | Seattle Children’s implements Abridge’s AI-powered platform to streamline pediatric documentation

Abridge has finalized an enterprise-wide agreement with Seattle Children’s to deploy its AI-powered ambient clinical intelligence platform across the health system, following a successful 90-day pilot across 18 pediatric specialties. The platform integrates into clinician workflows to reduce documentation burden - achieving a 79% average reduction during the pilot - while generating structured, high-quality clinical notes that support care continuity and billing accuracy. By capturing pediatric-specific nuances such as developmental milestones and multi-caregiver interactions, Abridge enables clinicians to focus more on patient care. Seattle Children’s plans to scale the platform across inpatient, outpatient, and emergency settings, leveraging ongoing product enhancements to further improve documentation, decision-making, and workflow efficiency. 

Women’s Health / Femtech 

1 | Samsung partners with web-based healthcare startup Galeon for women’s health diagnostics

Samsung has partnered with healthcare startup Galeon to integrate its AI-powered ultrasound devices with Galeon’s decentralized, blockchain-based electronic medical record system, focusing initially on women’s health diagnostics. The collaboration combines Samsung’s imaging technology with Galeon’s Blockchain Swarm Learning, enabling AI-driven analysis on anonymized, encrypted data without centralizing sensitive patient records. Each ultrasound device is connected via a secure Galeon connector, allowing real-time transfer of imaging data into patient records, improving access to precise fetal measurements, biometrics, and follow-up care. The partnership also incorporates a research component through Galeon’s Atlantis platform and GALEON token, empowering a community to guide funding priorities. 

2 | Visana Health raises $24M Series A to build virtual women’s health clinic

Visana Health has closed a $24 million Series A funding round led by Noro-Moseley Partners, with support from Cigna Group Ventures, Intermountain Ventures, and existing investors, to expand its virtual-first, whole-person women’s health clinic. The funding enables Visana to scale nationwide, extending care for chronic and complex conditions, including weight management, cardiometabolic care, and chronic disease management, while continuing to partner with national and regional health plans covering over 35 million lives. By integrating AI-driven workflows and personalized care, Visana aims to reduce employer medical costs, avoid unnecessary procedures, and improve patient outcomes.

3 | Neura raises $11.4M Series A for women’s neurological care 

Neura Health, a virtual neurology clinic, has raised $11.4 million in a Series A round led by the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Venture Fund. The platform expands access to comprehensive, patient-focused neurological care, addressing conditions such as migraine, epilepsy, chronic pain, stroke recovery, dementia, which disproportionately impact women, with board-certified neurologists via virtual visits. By integrating AI-powered workflows, symptom tracking, care coaching, and personalized education, Neura aims to reduce wait times, streamline care navigation, and support high-quality outcomes. 

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