What You Should Know:
- A large majority of physicians feel GLP-1s are being overprescribed, according to a new survey from Virta Health, a leader in type 2 diabetes reversal.
- The Virta Health survey was conducted in partnership with Beresford Research and included 300 primary care providers, endocrinologists, and obesity specialists across the United States sheds light on the medical community's views on the rapidly growing class of GLP-1 medications, often hailed as
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Blue Shield of California, Virta Health Partners to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes in California
What You Should Know:
- Blue Shield of California has expanded its partnership with Virta Health to help reverse the human and financial impact of type 2 diabetes in the state.
- The partnership marks Blue Shield as the first health plan in California to implement a digital diabetes reversal solution across multiple lines of business.
Blue Shield is first health plan in California to implement digital diabetes reversal solution across multiple lines of business.
As part of Blue
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Virta Health Helps AutoZone Employees Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
What You Should Know:
- Type 2 diabetes reversal leader Virta Health revealed promising one-year outcomes from its partnership with AutoZone, Inc., a retailer and distributor of automotive replacement parts and accessories in the Americas.
- Virta provides virtual, continuous health coaching, medical supervision and personalized nutrition to help patients reverse their metabolic disease, lose weight, + get off medications. At one year, AutoZoners experience long-term blood sugar control
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4th Annual UCSF Health Hub: Digital Health Awards Announced
What You Should Know:
- UCSF Health Hub and the Digital Health Awards team announces the ten Best in Class winning companies, 40 Rising Stars, three Rising Star Champions and two Hall of Fame inductees for the 2022 Digital Health Awards.
- The winning companies were chosen from more than 1,200 submissions based on a rigorous judging criteria. In the first round of judging, the priority was on reviewing every aspect of
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Virta Health Raises $133M to Expand Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Platform
What You Should Know:
- Virta Health, a San Francisco, CA-based company raises $133M led by , to scale its virtual metabolic clinic and approach to reversing chronic metabolic conditions (type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, and obesity) to the masses led by Tiger Global.
- The Series E financing follows a recent $65 million raise in December of 2020, nearly doubling the company’s valuation in just 5 months to $2 billion.
- Buoyed by delivering transformational outcomes in patient health and
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Health Gorilla Nabs $15M to Expand FHIR-based APIs for Digital Health
What You Should Know:
- Health Gorilla raises $15M to scale its FHIR-based API solutions for digital health and expand into new markets.
- Health Gorilla will introduce new APIs to enable consumer access to medical records, payer-to-payer data sharing, and data quality assessments.
Health Gorilla, a Sunnyvale, CA-based provider of healthcare APIs, today announced it has raised $15 million in Series B financing co-led by IA Capital and Nationwide, with participation
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Data-Driven Future: Impact of Machine Learning on Diabetes Management
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other” – Bill Gates wrote this in 1999 and, nowadays, the same can certainly be said about information technology and healthcare.
The ability to collect, analyze, and use data is becoming ubiquitous with many of healthcare’s most exciting advancements. Whether it’s Google’s DeepMind using artificial intelligence (AI) to help
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Virta Health Reaches Unicorn Status After Raising $65M to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes
What You Should Know:
- Virta just
closed a $65 Series D round, to scale its virtual clinic and approach to
reversing chronic metabolic conditions (T2D, prediabetes, and obesity) to the
masses.
- The financing, led by Sequoia Capital Global Equities,
also hurdles Virta well into unicorn territory ($1.1B+ valuation), recognizing
pre-pandemic growth that has accelerated during the COVID era.
Virta Health, a
San Francisco, CA-based company delivering the first
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Blue Cross NC Launches No-Cost Virtual Programs to Quit Smoking and Reverse Diabetes
What You Should Know:
- Today, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina partners
with Carrot Inc. and Virta Health to help address two of the largest ongoing
health issues facing Americans today - smoking and type 2 diabetes.
- Virta and Carrot’s programs will be available to
individual under-65 members and fully insured group members beginning November
2020.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC), today announced it is teaming up with Carrot Inc. and Virta
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Virta Adds Prediabetes and Obesity Reversal to Services
What You Should Know:
- Virta is expanding its suite of treatment options to
include prediabetes reversal, obesity reversal, and type 2 diabetes management.
- By making this crucial expansion, Virta can scale its
treatment to support the tens of millions of additional patients with
prediabetes and obesity, as provide an on-ramp to reversal for those with T2D
that aren’t yet ready to reverse.
Virta Health, the
leader in type 2 diabetes reversal, today introduced the addition
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