Solera Health Introduces New Platform To Reduce Point Solution Fatigue
Solera Health recently launched HALO, a platform that allows payers and employers to manage both Solera point solution partners and non-Solera point solutions in one place.
Weight Loss Drugs Will Have Impact Far Beyond Just On Drugmakers
A new PitchBook report listed several predictions for digital health companies in regards to weight loss drugs, including the potential for new weight loss startups and possible challenges for existing nutrition companies.
When Investment Rhymes with Canada
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
Peterson Center on Healthcare Launches $50M Institute To Assess Digital Health Solutions
The Peterson Health Technology Institute will function as an “independent evaluator” of digital health solutions. It will analyze solutions' clinical effectiveness, how they’re affecting healthcare costs, their ability to improve health equity, and their privacy and security capabilities.
Affect Therapeutics Secures $16M for Digital Addiction Recovery Platform
Affect Therapeutics' $16 million Series A funding round was led by ARTIS Ventures and included participation from AlleyCorp, CityLight, LifeArc Ventures, Samsung Next and What If Ventures. In total, Affect Therapeutics has raised about $26 million, said Kristin Muhlner, co-founder and CEO of the company.
Why Digital Health Startups Should Embrace a Provider-Centric Approach, Per an AMA Exec
Providers often have a checklist of requirements they use to determine whether they should bring new technology into their organization. Digital health startups would be wise to learn about these criteria when taking their products to market, said Meg Barron, the AMA's vice president of digital health strategy, at a recent conference. That way, startups can build their products around meeting providers' needs.
Women’s Health Startups Graduate from PharmStars Digital Health Accelerator
A new cohort of startups has graduated from PharmStars, a digital health accelerator. This latest group focused on women’s health and health equity.
Using Informed Awareness to Transform Care Coordination and Improve the Clinical and Patient Experience
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
New Israeli Health Tech Fund Launches to Invest in Pre-Seed and Seed-Stage Startups
Israeli health tech fund Shoni Health Ventures recently launched to invest in digital health and medical device startups that are in the pre-seed and seed stages of fundraising. The fund is affiliated with Sheba Medical Center, the largest hospital in Israel. Startups will have access to the hospital’s innovation center so that they can develop, pilot and commercialize their products.
Pharma Injecting Life into Digital Health Amidst Funding Downturn
Numerous clinical, regulatory and financial factors are behind this digital shift in pharma. Regardless of the reasons, investors, pharma, and research organizations are recognizing that advanced digital health tools will be a significant competitive advantage and generate meaningful return on investment (ROI) in an industry that is becoming more personalized and specialized.
Which Digital Health Tools Will Be the Greatest Victim to Turnover from Hospitals?
Hospitals’ digital health adoption exploded during the pandemic, leading to many vendor contracts spanning three to five years. As these contracts reach their expiration dates over this year and next, a new report predicts that telemedicine platforms and remote patient monitoring tools face the highest risk of being turned over by hospitals.
Experts Release New Framework to Evaluate Digital Health Products
A group of healthcare researchers and health system leaders recently proposed a new framework to evaluate evidence for digital health products. The framework seeks to provide hospitals, payers and trade organizations with a clear set of steps they can use to determine whether or not a digital health product is evidence-based and therefore suitable for their company to adopt.
The Impact Brands: Empowering Wellness Through Natural and Holistic Solutions
In an era of escalating healthcare costs and a growing preference for natural, holistic approaches to health, The Impact Brands emerges as a collective of diverse brands dedicated to supporting overall wellness through natural means.
Hyro Raises $20M for Conversational AI Assistant Used by Intermountain, Novant & More
Hyro — a New York-based startup selling a conversational AI platform for providers — recently closed a $20 million Series B funding round. The platform is "mostly plug-and-play" and requires minimal effort and resources from providers, CEO Israel Krush said.
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Digital Health Funding Steadied in Q1 After a Year of Decline
Global funding for digital health companies finally stabilized in Q1 of this year. The sector raised $3.4 billion — this marks the first time the digital health world didn’t experience a quarter-over-quarter funding decline since Q4 of 2021. By holding steady, digital health startups defied the dwindling fundraising totals seen across the broader venture capital landscape, where funding dropped by 13% quarter-over-quarter.
Payers Need Clear Outcomes Data to Reimburse Digital Health, Experts Argue
It’s clear that services like telehealth and remote patient monitoring have potential to provide value within the healthcare industry, but hospitals and digital health companies need to show payers clearer evidence of the outcomes these care modalities can produce in order to earn reimbursement, panelists argued during MedCity's INVEST conference.
Health Tech Startups Show Stakeholders How Digital Solutions Can Offer ROI
A panel during the MedCity News INVEST conference discussed what digital health technologies need to do to demonstrate return on investment for payers, providers, and other stakeholders.
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