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 […]
Startups January 9, 2025
Transcarent Builds Benefits Behemoth With Accolade Acquisition January 9, 2025
It’s already shaping up to be a huge year for digital health M&A, and the headlining announcement from our action-packed first week was Transcarent’s acquisition of publicly traded benefits rival Accolade. The $621M price tag is undeniably a big move for Transcarent, which launched in 2020 to make it easier for employees to access all […]
Digital Health January 6, 2025
Crystal Ball Compilation: Digital Health in 2025 January 6, 2025
Welcome back to the first Digital Health Wire of 2025! The healthcare news cycle might never sleep, but we hope our readers are heading into the new year well rested and ready for big things to come. The past few weeks have had plenty of fortune tellers predicting what those big things will be, so […]
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 […]
