Artificial Intelligence December 19, 2024
House Task Force AI Policy Recommendations December 19, 2024
The House Bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence closed out the year with a bang, launching 273-pages of AI policy fireworks. The report includes recommendations to “advance America’s leadership in AI innovation” across multiple industries, and the healthcare section definitely packed a punch. The task force started by highlighting AI’s potential across a long list […]
Startups December 16, 2024
Redesign Raises $175M Venture Building Fund December 16, 2024
Launching a healthcare company is hard. Launching dozens of them is even harder, but that’s exactly what Redesign Health plans to do after raising $175M for its largest fund to-date. Redesign isn’t a venture capital firm, although it’s funded more digital health startups than most VCs. It’s not an accelerator, yet it’s launched more companies […]
Digital Health December 12, 2024
Rock Health’s Innovation Maturity Curve Heading Into 2025 December 12, 2024
Rock Health is wrapping up the year in style by updating its Innovation Maturity Curve with the hottest trends of 2024, and sharing its predictions for what lies ahead. The curve uses three major data categories to plot digital health innovations: Here’s how 2023’s biggest trends progressed over the course of the year: AI in […]
Startups December 9, 2024
Soda Health Cracks Open $50M of Funding December 9, 2024
Soda Health is cracking open $50M of Series B funding to shake up supplemental benefits. Medicare Advantage plans deliver $131B/year in benefit funds for transportation, fitness, and grocery programs – yet the impact often falls flat due to an outdated tech infrastructure that makes it difficult for members to take advantage of their benefits. Soda’s […]
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). […]
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 […]
Startups October 28, 2024
CopilotIQ and Biofourmis Merge to Build Single Pane Home Care October 28, 2024
One of the biggest stories to come out of last week’s HLTH meetup was the surprise merger between Biofourmis and its under-the-radar remote care competitor CopilotIQ. CopilotIQ launched a few short years ago in 2021 to provide remote patient monitoring for seniors managing chronic conditions through its High-Frequency Connected Care platform. Biofourmis on the other […]
Digital Health October 24, 2024
HLTH 2024 Recap and Major Announcements October 24, 2024
That’s a wrap on HLTH 2024, and the showfloor was every bit as electric as outside on the Vegas strip. Over 12k attendees made the trip out to Sin City, and they all had the same two things on their minds: Busta Rhymes and artificial intelligence. The blind excitement of 2022 and the hallucination trepidation […]
Startups October 21, 2024
Oshi Lands $60M Series C for Virtual GI Care October 21, 2024
Oshi Health just found 60 million reasons why becoming the first virtual gastrointestinal center of excellence in the U.S. was a great decision. Since launching in 2020, Oshi has raised nearly $120M (half from its just-closed $60M Series C) to help the ~70M Americans suffering from GI conditions control their symptoms while decreasing their total […]
Digital Health October 17, 2024
IT Leaders Are Ready For New Solutions October 17, 2024
The future’s looking bright for digital health after the Peterson Health Technology Institute’s 2024 State of Digital Health Purchasing Survey found that decision-makers across the industry are ramping up their tech investments. Three quarters of purchasers have already grown their budget for new solutions, motivated primarily by consumer demand (83%) and improved outcomes (62%). Purchasers […]
Startups October 14, 2024
Maven Clinic, Suki, Glooko Start Q4 in Style October 14, 2024
It isn’t every week we see digital health startups score a hat trick of massive funding rounds – let alone one that rakes in a combined $295M – but Maven Clinic, Suki, and Glooko clearly came to play. Maven Clinic kicked off the action by closing $125M of Series F funding and vaulting its valuation […]
