This year’s ViVE conference featured a variety of news announcements — from company launches to new products to partnerships to acquisitions and more. In this list, MedCity News compiled short summaries for nine of the conference’s most notable announcements.

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Amazon launched a new initiative to help connect people to digital health benefits that they may not know are available to them. Omada Health is its first partner. CEO Sean Duffy said his company stood out from the many other virtual diabetes care companies out there because about 20 million Americans — many of whom shop on Amazon — are eligible for Omada’s programs.

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It makes sense that when care navigation prioritizes the patient and better links them to care by reducing barriers and smoothing out the road to seeing a provider, the patient experiences better outcomes. Better outcomes also translates to fewer hospital readmissions, saving money for both patients and their employers.

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Omada’s new program provides coaching, peer support and educational materials to patients struggling with chronic obesity and taking GLP-1s. The company chose not to prescribe the weight loss drugs itself.

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Steve Driver is an interventional cardiologist as well as medical director of digital therapeutics at Advocate Aurora Health, which last year merged with Atrium Health. In this episode, he talked about a pilot involving Omada Health targeting a prediabetes population, among other things.

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Insurers and employers are optimistic about the possibilities of virtual care, but they’re not very enthusiastic about the care modality’s larger influence on the healthcare industry, according to a recent report. Just 29% of employers and 34% of payers and benefits consultants said that virtual care will drastically change the way healthcare is provided and outcomes are achieved.

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Omada got funds from two new investors – Fidelity Management & Research Company and aMoon as well as existing ones. Verily’s Onduo is bringing its virtual diabetes management platform to an integrated care delivery and health plan that has 6 million members in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, and New York.

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Omada’s chief privacy and regulatory officer shared how she set the stage for new interoperability rules while working at the ONC, and how digital health companies should navigate them.  

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CNBC’s healthcare reporter has left the world of journalism behind to become a venture capitalist at OMERS Ventures. In an interview, she makes some healthcare predictions about 2021 and beyond.

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The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. A validated program that can effectively help people manage their disease is invaluable, especially at a time when in-person physician visits are unavailable.

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Omada Health acquired Physera Health, a company that offers telehealth physical therapy appointments. The deal would add another digital health platform to Omada’s toolbox, which includes solutions for diabetes, hypertension and behavioral health.

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With worries over health and the economy affecting most employees, companies are looking for ways to roll out more mental health tools. In turn, many digital health startups have found new clients.

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The markets may be battered, the economy shaken by Covid-19 concerns, but that didn’t prevent a discussion with a top digital health CEO about the attractiveness of an IPO.

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The company, which will be listed on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol “LVGO,” offers tech-enabled solutions that help to monitor and manage people with chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension and behavioral health issues.

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The round also included participation from previous investors including Cigna Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Kaiser Permanente, Sanofi Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners, reportedly values the company at $600 million.

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The new devices are part and parcel with the programs launched by the company last year to help support the treatment of patients with hypertension and Type 2 diabetes.

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The startup previously developed the Sleepio application, which is targeted at insomnia, and is offered to around 12 million users through partnerships with payers and employers like Boston Medical Center, Comcast and the NHS.

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The company has signed a perpetual licencing deal for the software, curriculum and content of Lantern, which built digital therapeutics for mental health conditions before shutting down operations last year.

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In 2018 alone, ten companies have inked mega-deals of more than $100 million including Livongo, 23andMe and American Well.

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Cigna competitors who have launched their own venture arms include Humana, Kaiser Permanente and UnitedHealthGroup’s Optum division.

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Omada Health, known for its Type 2 diabetes prevention, is adding new programs that reflect an expansion into managing chronic conditions such as hypertension and Type 2 diabetes.

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The CDC status gives the company’s case for its program a shot in the arm at a time when Omada Health is striving to get Medicare reimbursement for virtual DPP programs.

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The San Francisco digital health company now has three payers on board as investors – Humana, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, and Cigna.

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How can digital health companies capture hospitals’ interest? Three panelists at MedCity INVEST proffered a few suggestions.

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Omada Health added Lucia Savage as it prepares to roll out its diabetes prevention program to Medicare beneficiaries in 2018.

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Counsyl is shutting down its oncology business just seven months after launching the division. Some 24 jobs will be lost as the company concentrates its efforts in women’s health and carrier screening.

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A look at some of the hidden challenges of diabetes management and how the patient experience can be improved.

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AMA’s president had called unproven digital health apps 21st Century’s version of snake oil, and now the doctors’ group is formally partnering with a digital health company for the very first time.

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