Digital Health December 5, 2024

CB Insights 2024 Digital Health 50 December 5, 2024

CB Insights unveiled its annual Digital Health 50 rankings of the most promising private digital health startups, and this year’s list certainly included many of the industry’s brightest stars. Here’s the methodology / our disclaimer: The final cut was selected from a pool of 10k+ applicants based on “proprietary metrics” – Commercial Maturity and Mosaic […]

Artificial Intelligence December 2, 2024

Real-World Lessons From NYU’s ChatGPT Roll Out December 2, 2024

NYU Langone Health just lifted the curtain on its recent ChatGPT experiment, publishing an impressively candid look at all of the real-world data from its system-wide roll out. A new article in JAMIA details the first six months of usage and cost metrics for NYU’s HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT 3.5 (dubbed GenAI Studio), and the […]

Startups November 25, 2024

Oura Lands $75M From Dexcom to Bring Smart Rings to Healthcare November 25, 2024

Smart ring maker Oura is taking the leap into healthcare, and it just landed a major investment from Dexcom to help it cross the chasm. Things are looking up for the creator of the Oura Ring. In just the last week: Oura got its start in 2013 helping health-conscious consumers optimize their performance with insights […]

Telehealth November 21, 2024

Telehealth Prescribing Extended Through 2025 November 21, 2024

In a move that surprised basically no one, the DEA is extending pandemic-era telehealth prescribing flexibilities for controlled substances through the end of 2025. The “Third Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled Medications” was officially published on November 19th, ending a months-long stalemate among regulators. The third time’s the charm (hopefully). […]

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Telehealth November 18, 2024

Telehealth Doesn’t Lead to Low-Value Services November 18, 2024

University of Michigan researchers just delivered some compelling evidence that telehealth doesn’t increase wasteful care, and may actually reduce it in several key areas. This wasn’t a small study. The analysis in JAMA Network Open leveraged Medicare FFS claims data spanning 578k beneficiaries across 2,552 primary care practices between 2019 and 2022. The researchers tracked […]

Startups November 14, 2024

Babylon Founder Returns With Launch of Quadrivia November 14, 2024

Babylon founder Ali Parsa is rising from the wreckage with a new startup – Quadrivia – and he’s certainly hoping that his second AI wonder app works out better than his first. A LinkedIn post from Parsa laid out Quadrivia’s vision of using customizable AI agents to tackle “the main challenge” in healthcare: the structural […]

Primary Care November 11, 2024

Does Investing in Primary Care Lead To Lower Total Costs? November 11, 2024

The idea that increasing investment in primary care will reduce costs down the road makes intuitive sense, but a recent article in Health Affairs suggests that there’s “limited evidence that directly ties higher primary care spending to lower total spending.” Primary care is the foundation of an effective healthcare system, with plenty of evidence supporting […]

Startups November 7, 2024

Bessemer’s Key Benchmarks for Health Tech November 7, 2024

Bessemer Venture Partners put out an update to its top-tier blog series on benchmarks that health tech startups can use to see how they stack up against the competition. We won’t dive into the full industry overview, but here’s a look at a few of the key metrics Bessemer shared to illustrate how the health […]

Digital Health November 4, 2024

PHTI Delivers Mixed Review on Digital Hypertension Tools November 4, 2024

Digital hypertension management solutions received a mixed report card from the Peterson Health Technology Institute’s latest evaluation, which found significant differences in performance depending on the treatment approach. The 71-page report assessed clinical and economic evidence across three solution types: PHTI’s signature chart delivers a great summary of the findings: The analysis found that all […]

Artificial Intelligence October 31, 2024

Oracle Announces AI-Powered EHR, QHIN October 31, 2024

This week’s Oracle Health Summit in Nashville was a rodeo of announcements, and by this time next year it sounds like we could see both an entirely new AI-powered EHR and a freshly minted QHIN. The biggest headline from the event was the unveiling of a next-generation EHR powered by AI, which will allow clinicians […]

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