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Startup backed by a16z, Jonathan Bush aims to help patients compare hospital prices
Most consumers wouldn’t buy a car, rent an apartment or even order food without knowing the cost. One startup wants to bring that…
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Chutes & Ladders—Amwell names pharma vet to C-suite post; Independence picks up chief people officer
Welcome to this week’s Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your…
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Google Cloud rolls out technology to map medical records data to FHIR standard
Large tech giants are jumping into a growing interoperability solutions market as new federal regulations spur the healthcare industry to…
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General Catalyst taps ex-Merck chief as it doubles down on health tech investments
Venture capital firm General Catalyst is ramping up its investments in healthcare and pharma and brought on big guns to…
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Merck taps Evidation to use apps, wearables to detect early stages of Alzheimer’s
Merck has tapped Evidation to explore whether data collected from smartphone apps and wearables can help to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease early. The two…
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WebMD purchases patient educational video maker The Wellness Network
WebMD Health Corp. has acquired The Wellness Network, a maker of patient education videos for use in hospitals and health…
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Carbon Health banks another $350M to become ‘largest primary care provider in the U.S.’
Carbon Health, a primary care provider combining brick-and-mortar clinics with virtual services, is targeting nationwide expansion with the announcement of a…
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YouTube partners with Mass General on health content amid misinformation backlash
The first thing many people do when they have a health question is head online, but when it comes to COVID-19…
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Ginger’s digital mental health services are coming to members’ teenage dependents
On-demand mental healthcare startup Ginger has pulled back the curtain on a new offering designed for users age 13 to…
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Amazon rolls out AWS For Health cloud services for healthcare, genomics and biopharma
Amazon’s cloud division has rolled out AWS for Health, a set of services and partner solutions for healthcare, genomics and…
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Startup that uses smartphone camera for wound care brings in $35M
Swift Medical built an app that helps care providers improve wound care and brought in $35 million to scale up…
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ClosedLoop partners with Booz Allen Hamilton to bring its predictive analytics to larger customers
Healthcare data science platform provider ClosedLoop has partnered with Booz Allen Hamilton to bring stronger predictive analytics capabilities to federal…
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Digital health dollars hit $15B high driven by telehealth investment in 2021
Global venture capital funding for digital health companies hit a $15 billion high in the first half of 2021, driven in…
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Chutes & Ladders—The Guthrie Clinic unveils new CEO; Grand Rounds Health and Doctor On Demand names COO
Welcome to this week’s Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your…
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8 signs the connected health device market is booming
Consumers are buying more connected monitoring devices, spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s a trend that’s expected to ramp…
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Microsoft taps Teladoc to integrate telehealth into Teams app
Teladoc Health is partnering with Microsoft to integrate telehealth into the Teams app for hospitals and health systems. The combination…
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Oscar launches new functionality for transgender, nonbinary members
Oscar Health has launched a new tool in its technology stack that aims to improve the experience of transgender and nonbinary…
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CVS study: How the pandemic is boosting healthcare consumerism
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed people to embrace new avenues of care, and take greater control of their own health, according…
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Intelerad Medical Systems acquiring HeartIT to boost cardiovascular imaging tech
Radiology company Intelerad is acquiring Heart Imaging Technologies, a company specializing in clinical workflow automation. The deal falls on the heels…
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Health tech funding snapshot—MA startup AllyAlign Health nabs $300M; Lyra Health draws up $200M for mental health
What do you get when you cross a biotech, a professional golfer and a handful of investment firms? Apparently, a…
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Fitbit readings highlight lingering physiological, behavioral changes after COVID-19 infection
Newly published data from a longitudinal study of Fitbit users describe activity, sleep and resting heart rate changes triggered by…
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Telehealth use drops for 3rd straight month as patients return to in-person appointments
Americans are slowly returning to medical facilities to receive care and are using fewer telehealth services after last year’s pandemic…
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CMS’ data interoperability rule can spur innovation for payers, experts say. Here’s how
On July 1, a final rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took effect that opens up patient…
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Healthcare Dealmakers—One Medical acquiring Iora Health for $2.1B; 23andMe wraps up SPAC with $3.5B valuation
Healthcare mergers and acquisitions are in no short supply as providers, payers, health tech companies and other industry players look…
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Digital health funding rockets up to $14.7B, speeding past 2020’s investment
Investors poured $14.7 billion into digital health companies so far in 2021, already outpacing all of 2020’s record-breaking funding. The…
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Excited to share Apple Health Records with a doctor? Thank data interoperability standards like SMART and FHIR
Back in early 2018, Apple entered the personal health record (PHR) space with its Apple Health Records platform. Built directly…
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Sword Health draws up $85M to build out value-based virtual MSK care
Sword Health banked $110 million in six months to fuel its global expansion and to build value-based care models for…
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$28M series B in hand, Syllable looks to revamp healthcare customer service with AI
Syllable, a customer service automation platform designed for healthcare organizations, has announced the close of a $28 million series B…
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CVS, Anthem, Intermountain form coalition to push for regulatory changes for home dialysis
Industry heavyweights along with a crop of startups are all chasing a lucrative home-based kidney care market. Several of those…
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Ro scoops up at-home testing startup Kit on the heels of Workpath, Modern Fertility acquisitions
Virtual health company Ro continues to bulk up its capabilities through M&A and is now moving into at-home testing. The startup…
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Industry Voices—To see where digital therapeutics is heading, look to MSK care
Sometimes investing gets personal. When I started looking at virtual, digital healthcare platforms for musculoskeletal conditions, it hit close to…
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How Cambia Health Solutions is using the cloud to ‘cut through the noise’ of digital health tools
At Cambia Health Solutions, a key focus of the technology work is treating each member like an individual and acknowledging…
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Swift Medical’s latest partnership accelerates its push into home health market
Digital wound care startup Swift Medical is making moves to corner a bigger share of the home health market. The…
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Biden administration ‘absolutely supportive’ of efforts to expand virtual care, HHS official says
Many provider groups are clamoring for Congress and federal regulators to permanently expand coverage for telehealth visits once the COVID-19…
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Telehealth use falls 37% from pandemic highs, while demand for healthcare services projected to flatten: report
Future demand for healthcare services will be relatively flat to declining, with little to no effect from the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Chutes & Ladders—Obama-era CMS vet joins Babylon Health; UnityPoint Health names Sioux City regional head
Welcome to this week’s Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your…
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J.D. Power: Telehealth use boosts members’ satisfaction with health plans
Increased telehealth use under the pandemic is encouraging members to engage more with their health plans, according to a new…
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Highmark, ChristianaCare launch value-based care, digital health joint venture
Highmark Health and ChristianaCare are launching a new joint venture that aims to harness data to accelerate value-based, equitable care.…
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Eden Health banks $60M series C investment to boost collaborative care
National medical practice Eden Health announced Thursday that it raised $60 million in series C funding it plans to use…
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