Telehealth May 5, 2025
Teladoc Adds In-Network Therapy With Uplift Acquisition May 5, 2025
Teladoc wrapped up a bumpy Q1 with the acquisition of virtual therapy provider Uplift, a move that it hopes will help turnaround its persistently problematic BetterHelp segment. UpLift provides virtual therapy, psychiatry, and medication management services – all crucially covered by most major commercial payors, as well as Medicare and Medicaid. The $30M acquisition shores […]
Digital Health May 1, 2025
CB Insights State of Digital Health Q1 2025 May 1, 2025
CB Insights put out its State of Digital Health report for the first quarter, and it looks like it’ll take more than a stock market nosedive to stop the health tech rebound. Although some of the themes might sound familiar to those that keep up with Rock Health’s analysis – primarily more funding directed toward […]
Artificial Intelligence April 28, 2025
AI Can Help Doctors Change Their Minds April 28, 2025
A recent study out of Stanford explored whether doctors would revise their medical decisions in light of new AI-generated information, finding that docs are more than willing to change their minds despite being just as vulnerable to cognitive biases as the rest of us. Here’s the set up published in Nature Communications Medicine: The initial […]
Value-Based Care April 28, 2025
PointClickCare SUMMIT 2025 Recap and Major Announcements April 28, 2025
PointClickCare SUMMIT 2025 is officially a wrap, and we’re back from Vegas with a roundup of the biggest highlights and announcements from the show. The market-leading senior care EHR’s 12th annual SUMMIT brought together over 2,000 of the industry’s top professionals to connect, learn, and advance care together. PointClickCare CEO Dave Wessinger kicked things off […]
Artificial Intelligence April 24, 2025
The Healthcare AI Adoption Index April 24, 2025
Bessemer Venture Partners’ market reports are always some of the best in the business, but its recent Healthcare AI Adoption Index might just be its finest work yet. The Healthcare AI Adoption Index is based on survey data from 400+ execs across Payors, Providers, and Pharma – breaking down how buyers are approaching GenAI applications, […]
Remote Care April 21, 2025
Peterson Center on Healthcare Takes Aim at Remote Patient Monitoring April 21, 2025
The Peterson Center on Healthcare is back with another report that doesn’t mince words when it comes to remote patient monitoring: “RPM reimbursement in Medicare is misaligned with the clinical value of these tools.” The report synthesized Peterson’s past evaluations of diabetes, hypertension, and musculoskeletal solutions, which encompassed the trio of conditions associated with the […]
Startups April 17, 2025
hellocare.ai Growth Round Fuels Smart Hospital Transformation April 17, 2025
The shift from point solutions to platform approaches has been one of the defining trends of the past few years, and hellocare.ai is positioning itself to capitalize on the transition with $47M of growth funding from prominent health system backers. hellocare.ai’s unified virtual care platform transforms any hospital room into a connected care environment, enabling […]
Artificial Intelligence April 14, 2025
K Health’s AI Clinical Recommendations Rival Doctors in Real-World Setting April 14, 2025
Real-world comparisons of AI recommendations and doctors’ clinical decisions have been few and far between, but a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine gave us a great look at how performance stacks up with actual patients. The early verdict? AI came out on top, but that doesn’t mean doctors should pack their bags […]
Digital Health April 10, 2025
Rock Health Q1 2025 Funding Recap, Late-Stage is Back April 10, 2025
In a first quarter packed with uncertainty and policy shifts, digital health didn’t skip a beat. Rock Health’s Q1 Digital Health Market Update counted $3B in venture funding across 122 rounds (up from $2.7B in Q1 2024), and it sounds like there’s finally some optimism in the air again. Early-stage startups dominated the deal count, […]
Startups April 7, 2025
Thatch Raises Series B to Dislodge Health Coverage From Employment April 7, 2025
Help is on the way for employers grappling with rising healthcare costs after Thatch locked in $40M of Series B funding to help tailor benefits to the needs of employees. Thatch is dislodging health coverage from employment by providing individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements (ICHRA) that let employees choose their own benefits. Thatch CEO Chris […]
Startups April 3, 2025
Layer Health Takes AI to Chart Review With Series A April 3, 2025
The healthcare AI momentum isn’t showing any signs of letting up, and chart review automation startup Layer Health just added another $21M to the segment’s quickly growing venture total. Layer’s AI platform leverages LLMs trained on longitudinal patient data to automate data abstraction for the medical chart reviews that underpin a wide range of clinical […]
Artificial Intelligence March 31, 2025
PHTI Delivers Mixed Reviews on Ambient Scribes March 31, 2025
The Peterson Health Technology Institute’s latest technology review is here, and it had a decidedly mixed report card for the ambient AI scribes sweeping across the industry. PHTI’s total count of ambient scribe vendors stands at over 60, but the bulk of its report focuses on the early experiences and lessons learned from the top […]
Startups March 27, 2025
Navina Lands $55M to Bring AI Insights to VBC March 27, 2025
As the number of providers transitioning to value-based care continues to grow, the need for timely clinical intelligence is climbing right alongside it, and Navina just landed $55M in Series C funding to become the definitive source for AI-driven insights. Navina’s AI clinical intelligence platform aggregates data from a wide range of sources like the […]
Startups March 24, 2025
DispatchHealth Acquires Hospital-at-Home Provider Medically Home March 24, 2025
DispatchHealth is acquiring fellow hospital-at-home provider Medically Home to give more patients access to their preferred hospital bed: the one they already have at home. DispatchHealth delivers full-service high-acuity care to patients across the country by sending clinicians directly to the patient’s own bedside. Medically Home has a similar value proposition, with technology, logistics, and […]
Digital Health March 20, 2025
Dr. Oz Sheds Light on Potential Priorities at CMS March 20, 2025
Dr. Mehmet Oz appears to have passed his Senate testimony with flying colors, and the surgeon-turned-TV-personality’s confirmation as CMS administrator seems all but locked in. The nearly three hour testimony wandered through a range of topics with a direct impact on digital health, giving us a first look at what might change – or get […]
Artificial Intelligence March 17, 2025
AI Misses the Mark on Detecting Critical Conditions March 17, 2025
Most health systems have already begun turning to AI to predict if patient health conditions will deteriorate, but a new study in Nature Communications Medicine suggests that current models aren’t cut out for the task. Virginia Tech researchers looked at several popular machine learning models cited in medical literature for predicting patient deterioration, then fed […]
Startups March 13, 2025
Hinge Files for Long-Awaited IPO March 13, 2025
When the digital health market needed a hero, Hinge Health answered the call. Hinge officially filed for its IPO, braving the biggest stock market downturn in recent memory to pull the tech-enabled services category out of a years-long slump. Diving into the S-1, Hinge grew its revenue by 33% to $390M in 2024. It also […]
Artificial Intelligence March 10, 2025
Stress Testing Ambient AI Scribes March 10, 2025
Providers are lining up to see if ambient AI can live up to its promise of decreasing burnout while improving the patient experience… and researchers are starting to wonder the same thing. A new study in JAMA Network Open investigated whether ambient AI scribes actually decrease clinical note burden, following 46 clinicians at the University […]
Digital Health March 6, 2025
HIMSS 2025 Recap, Launches, and Major Announcements March 6, 2025
It’s the final day of HIMSS 2025 in Las Vegas, and although the exhibitors are still diligently manning their stations, most of the announcement cards have already been dealt and it’s time to round up the biggest stories from the show. HIMSS centered around the familiar themes of digital transformation, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and workforce […]
