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 […]
Startups March 3, 2025
OpenEvidence Closes $75M in Series A Funding March 3, 2025
OpenEvidence might be the new kid on the medical chatbot block, but it’s already “the fastest-growing platform for doctors in history,” and $75M of Series A funding just made it the youngest unicorn in healthcare. Founder Daniel Nadler describes OpenEvidence as an AI copilot, with an experience that feels similar to ChatGPT yet is actually […]
Artificial Intelligence February 27, 2025
AI Enthusiasm Heats Up With Doctors February 27, 2025
The unstoppable march of AI only seems to be gaining momentum, with an American Medical Association survey noting greater enthusiasm – and less apprehension – among physicians. The AMA’s Augmented Intelligence Research survey of 1,183 physicians found that those whose enthusiasm outweighs their concerns with health AI rose to 35% in 2024, up from 30% […]
Startups February 24, 2025
Abridge Lands $250M and Debuts Contextual Reasoning Engine February 24, 2025
One of the top stories to come out of last week’s ViVE conference was Abridge closing $250M in Series D funding, yet that somehow wasn’t even the biggest news in the announcement. On top of raising a nine-figure round at a $2.5B valuation, Abridge hit the 100 health system milestone after adding to a string […]
Digital Health February 20, 2025
ViVE 2025 Recap and Major Announcements February 20, 2025
Hot chicken, cold weather, and artificial intelligence – ViVE Nashville had it all. Over 10,000 attendees made the trip to Music City, making the event roughly a third larger than the last time it was in town in 2023. About a hundred of those attendees even stuck around for the last day, risking the snow […]
Digital Health February 13, 2025
Health Tech’s Defining Decade February 13, 2025
We’re using today’s top story to circle back on Define Venture’s report on “Health Tech’s Defining Decade,” which included too many highlights to squeeze into last week’s update. The analysis dives into the performance of venture-backed health tech startups that went on to go public, with a sprinkle of survivorship bias given that it doesn’t […]
Telehealth February 10, 2025
Hybrid Care: Interest Outstrips Infrastructure February 10, 2025
Provider organizations are hungry for more hybrid care, but new research in NEJM Catalyst highlights a notable gap between their interest and infrastructure. A survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council – made up of clinical leaders and executives from care delivery orgs across the globe – showed that a majority of the 730 respondents […]
Telehealth February 6, 2025
Teladoc Aims to Catapult Over Obstacles With Acquisition February 6, 2025
Teladoc is looking to catapult over some of its recent obstacles with its first acquisition under CEO Chuck Divita, picking up Catapult Health for a lofty $65M. The closing price is over three times what Teladoc shelled out for BetterHelp in 2015, which could be justified if Catapult’s at-home testing synergies pan out as intended. […]
Value-Based Care February 3, 2025
NeuroFlow Acquires Quartet as Behavioral Health Consolidation Heats Up February 3, 2025
It turns out that Quartet offloading its psychiatry business last week was only half of the story, and NeuroFlow will be writing the next chapter after acquiring the rest of the value-based behavioral care enabler. Quartet works with health plans, health systems, and community centers to connect patients with behavioral care needs directly to high-quality […]
Startups January 30, 2025
Eleos Series C Brings AI to Behavioral Healthcare January 30, 2025
There’s riches in niches, and “the most widely deployed behavioral health AI solution on the market” just landed another $60M with Eleos Health’s Series C fundraise. Eleos’ clinical documentation solution looks a lot like other ambient AI tech on the surface: The ambient AI arena is packed with companies catering to the broad needs of […]
Digital Health January 27, 2025
HIPAA Gets First Major Update in Over a Decade January 27, 2025
It might have taken the biggest data breach in healthcare history to make it happen, but HHS finally announced the first major changes to HIPAA in over a decade. Big changes need big titles, and the HIPAA Security Rule Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Strengthen Cybersecurity for Electronic Protected Health Information packs 393 pages of […]
Digital Health January 23, 2025
Rock Health 2024 Overview: David vs Goliath January 23, 2025
If last year’s digital health market felt like David vs. Goliath, Rock Health’s full-year funding recap has you covered with the reason why. Here’s 2024 by the numbers: There’s a tale of two trends unfolding between the early-stage startups and late-stage incumbents battling for market share, and neither side is helping out the funding total. […]
Startups January 16, 2025
Innovaccer Dives Into AI With Series F Raise January 16, 2025
We’re barely halfway through the first month of 2025, and Innovaccer already raked in what could end up being the biggest raise of the year with its $275M Series F funding round. Innovaccer got its start in 2014 with the goal of breaking down healthcare’s data siloes and using that connected fabric of information to […]
Artificial Intelligence January 13, 2025
First Snapshot of AI Oversight at U.S. Hospitals January 13, 2025
A beautiful paper in Health Affairs brought us the first snapshot of AI oversight at U.S. hospitals, as well as a glimpse of the blindspots that are already adding up. Data from 2,425 hospitals that participated in the 2023 AHA Annual Survey shed light on the differences in AI adoption and evaluation capacity at hospitals […]
