Andrew Trister, Verily’s chief medical and scientific officer sat down with Medtech Insight during the recent ViVE conference to talk about how Verily is leveraging AI to address public health issues and global health inequities and the new web-based version of the Onduo platform, the use of GLP-1s to combat chronic diseases, and more. This is the first part of a two-part series on Verily. 

Medtech Insight spoke with two executives and a surgeon with expertise in immersive technologies about potential use cases for the Apple Vision Pro mixed-reality headset, for example, for surgical training. They agreed that the Vision Pro’s eye-tracking, gesture-based controls and other capabilities show great promise, but there are factors that could limit its deployment in the operating suite.

In this month’s Digital Health Roundup, Medtech Insight’s Marion Webb highlights interviews with industry leaders in medtech and healthtech and demos of some of the most innovative tech seen at CES 2024 in Las Vegas. Hannah Daniel dives into the latest developments in the intellectual property dispute between Apple and Masimo over blood oxygen sensors in the newer Apple Watch models.

AI tools are increasingly making their way into behavioral health clinics to decrease the administrative burden of notetaking and other support tasks. Experts believe that AI tools and chatbots can offer patients benefits short of replacing the human therapist.