Pennsylvania-based vitamin and supplement retailer GNC announced its healthcare division, GNC Health, is expanding its offerings to include virtual care services for individuals and families via three membership plans.
Consumers can purchase a GNC Health Basic plan for $34.99 per month, which offers unlimited access to free virtual urgent and lifestyle care and more than 100 prescription...
Indonesian health tech company Halodoc has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Astra Digital, a subsidiary of diversified conglomerate Astra International. The round was also joined by Openspace and Novo Holdings.
Established in 2016, Halodoc provides online integrated health services, which include telemedicine, medicine ordering, lab test and doctor appointment booking, third...
Australian Pharmaceutical Industries, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ASX-listed conglomerate Wesfarmers, is buying local telehealth business InstantScripts for A$135 million ($91 million).
Founded in 2018, the online health clinic offers a range of digital services, including telehealth consultations, online prescriptions, medical certificates, blood test requests, health management plans and...
Over two years since it was first acquired, GP2U Telehealth is being sold off again.
Its parent company, UK-based Doctor Care Anywhere Group, signed a share purchase agreement to sell its Australian subsidiary to My Emergency Doctor for A$3 million ($2 million).
The deal, which is still subject to shareholder approval, is expected to be completed by end June.
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Soccer players may present a higher rate of depression and burnout than the general population. Still, Connor Tobin, professional soccer player and cofounder and executive director of the United Soccer League Players Association, says professional soccer lacks the resources to support players' mental health.
Tobin sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss how USLPA aims to aid players through a...
Singapore-headquartered telehealth company ORA has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round – touted to be the largest telehealth funding in Southeast Asia to date – led by TNB Aura and Antler. The round was also participated by Gobi Partners, Kairous Capital, and GMA Ventures.
WHAT IT DOES
ORA runs a vertically-integrated telehealth platform that delivers over 250,000 consultations since...
During the first year of the COVID-19 public health emergency, Medicare improperly paid for $580 million of psychotherapy care, including $348 million of telehealth services, according to an audit by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General.
The report, which estimated that Medicare paid for $1 billion of psychotherapy that year, included more than 13.5 million...
After years of slow movement advancing telehealth, remote patient monitoring and other digital health technologies, the landscape changed rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, said Jodi Daniel, managing director of Crowell Health Solutions.
At HIMSS23, Daniel, who previously served as the founding director of the Office of Policy in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...
Audio-only telehealth visits still make up a significant portion of primary and behavioral healthcare at federally qualified health centers in California, according to a RAND Corporation study published in JAMA.
Though audio-only visits have declined from the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers found they accounted for one in five primary care visits and two in five behavioral health...
Virtual health company MediBuddy has acquired the telehealth business of US-based managed healthcare company Aetna in India.
vHealth by Aetna, which is run by Aetna's subsidiary Indian Health Organisation (IHO), offers subscription-based primary healthcare services, including telephone and video consultations and delivery of medicines, blood tests and other home healthcare products across 38...
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