If you’re looking for a silver lining in the COVID-19 dark cloud still enshrouding the world, consider this: The pandemic has turbocharged widespread acceptance of at-home digital health solutions. Forced to function in a world of social distancing, healthcare providers and physicians have quickly discovered how easily telehealth visits, remote patient monitoring (RPM) and digital therapeutics can improve patient care.
Many of these digital health innovations are designed to address
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Digital Health Disconnect Creates Unnecessary Roadblock to Patient Engagement
By all accounts, the last two years have accelerated consumer adoption of digital tools for managing nearly every aspect of our lives. Ordering takeout? Odds are good you used a digital payment method, alongside the 93% of consumers who say they’ve used tools like Venmo and Zelle over the last year. Visiting your primary care physician? There’s a good chance you had at least some interaction with a patient portal or telehealth platform. Even the
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Hims & Hers & Carbon Health Partner to Expand Care Options for California Customers
What You Should Know:
- Hims & Hers & Carbon Health partnership adds the seventh U.S. state to the Hims & Hers provider network, which enables seamless care for a wide range of conditions.
- Collaboration advances Hims & Hers efforts to transform healthcare by adding another high-quality provider to its growing network of provider relationships.
Hims & Hers Health, the multi-specialty telehealth platform focused on providing modern personalized health and wellness
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Invitae Launches Genomics-Forward Digital Health Platform
What You Should Know:
- Invitae launches a seamless digital platform to enhance patient and provider experiences and further bring genetics to mainstream medicine.
- Offering seamless integrations with EHR solutions, Invitae Digital Health will provide healthcare systems with a customizable suite of tools in a single, intuitive platform.
Invitae, a San Francisco, CA, based medical genetics company, announced the launch of Invitae Digital Health—a connected
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Brightside Health Raises $50M for Personalized Anxiety & Depression Care
What You Should Know:
- Today, Brightside Health announced it raised a $50M Series B, led by ACME Capital and Mousse Partners, bringing its total funding to $75M to date.
- The funding will help Brightside expand access to high-quality mental healthcare to more people across the country, enhance the platform, forge new partnerships, and grow as a team, from about 57 now to an expected 175 later this year.
Brightside Health, a telemedicine platform that offers fast access to
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What The Finance Industry Can Teach Healthcare About Digital Transformation
The COVID-19 pandemic feels like a once-in-a-lifetime event for those of us involved in healthcare, but the patterns of how the crisis affected our industry feel familiar.
Stop me if you have heard this before: incumbent players in a broad industry made very slow and fragmented technological advances for years with no real threat to their business. Then, a sudden and transformational event catapulted direct-to-consumer technologies, forcing the incumbents to fundamentally alter their business
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Why Mainstream Precision Medicine Hinges on Healthcare HPC Storage
The healthcare industry is experiencing a data deluge, and it shows no sign of slowing down.
In 2020, estimates reported that healthcare data comprised a staggering 30% of the world’s total data volume; projections for 2025 bump that number up to 36%, a growth rate outpacing every other industry.
This is promising news for precision medicine, the data-driven healthcare initiative that promotes the right treatment for the right patient at the right time.
Precision (or personalized)
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NVIDIA Launches AI Computing Platform for Medical Devices
What You Should Know:
- NVIDIA today introduced Clara Holoscan MGX, a platform for the medical device industry to develop and deploy real-time AI applications at the edge, specifically designed to meet required regulatory standards.
- Clara Holoscan MGX expands the Clara Holoscan platform to provide an all-in-one, medical-grade reference architecture, as well as long-term software support, to accelerate innovation in the medical device industry.
Clara Holoscan MGX Overview
As part
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Cityblock Health Names Co-Founder Dr. Toyin Ajayi as CEO
What You Should Know:
- Cityblock Health, a value-based healthcare provider for Medicaid, dually-eligible and lower-income Medicare beneficiaries appoints co-founder Dr. Toyin Ajayi to CEO. Co-founder Iyah Romm is stepping down as CEO but will continue serving as a member of the board.
- Dr. Ajayi most recently served as president, where she oversaw the company's growth and clinical model. As CEO, Toyin will help lead the next stage of Cityblock’s growth and further its vision of an
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Fresenius Health Partners, InterWell Health, and Cricket Health Announce $2.4B Merger
What You Should Know:
- Cricket Health is announcing today that it will merge with Fresenius Health Partners (the value-based care arm of Fresenius), and InterWell Health, to form the nation’s premier, value-based kidney care provider with a totally new model of addressing kidney disease. The new company will operate under the InterWell Health brand and is valued at $2.4B.
- Together, Fresenius Health Partners, InterWell Health, and Cricket Health will drive innovation and industry
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