Best Buy Health and Mass General Brigham announced the tech giant would provide technology, human-centered aid and omnichannel logistics to scale and support the health system's acute home-based care offering, Home Hospital, and Medicare-certified home health business, Home Care.
Home Hospital provides home healthcare for patients with conditions such as infections, chronic obstructive pulmonary...
Editor's note: This story has been updated with a comment from Philips.
Royal Philips received an additional $44.6 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, bringing its total received to $60 million, to support the global deployment of the tech giant's AI-enabled, FDA-cleared Lumify Ultrasound System.
In 2021, Philips received an initial grant of $15.4 million from the Gates...
Direct-to-consumer virtual care company Hims & Hers Health reported 57% year-over-year revenue in the third quarter of this year at $226.7 million, compared to $144.8 million in the same period last year.
Net loss was $7.6 million in Q3 this year, down from $18.8 million in Q3 last year, and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) was $12.3 million,...
Retail giant Walmart's healthcare arm, Walmart Health, announced it has signed coordinated care agreements with Florida health insurer Ambetter from Sunshine Health and Orlando Health, a Florida-based network of community and specialty hospitals.
Walmart Health centers offer labs, primary care, x-rays and EKG, dental, behavioral health and select specialty services seven days a week with...
As vice president, Joe Biden launched the Cancer Moonshot, intending to accelerate progress in cancer treatments and accessibility, and as president, Biden reignited the Moonshot last year.
Earlier this year, as part of the Moonshot, the Department of Health and Human Services launched CancerX, a public-private partnership effort to boost cancer innovation in the U.S.
The Digital Medicine Society...
Digital gastrointestinal health company Vivante Health has signed a national distribution contract with health insurer UnitedHealthcare, becoming the first digestive solution on the UHC Hub.
Vivante's GIThrive platform provides personalized care plans and allows patients to track their symptoms and access educational content and self-guided behavioral health modules. A coordinated team of...
Viome Life Sciences, maker of at-home tests for gut and immune system health, announced it has acquired digital health-and-wellness data company Naring Health, including its subsidiaries DiscernDX and Foodome.
Viome is split into two divisions, one selling consumer products like microbiome tests that provide diet recommendations and supplements, and the other focused on identifying biomarkers...
IKS Health, a technology-backed care enablement platform that offers administrative, clinical and operational support, announced it acquired tech-enabled medical-coding, clinical-documentation and revenue-support company AQuity Solutions for $200 million.
IKS' platform includes technology and services for clinical support, revenue optimization, digital health and value-based care. The company...
Covera Health, an AI-enabled clinical data analysis company focused on improving radiology readings, announced it secured an additional $50 million in Series C funding and finalized its acquisition of CoRead, which uses AI to flag medical errors on radiology examinations.
The funds add to the company's $25 million Series C round announced in 2021.
Insight Partners led the 2021 round and the...
FireflyVR, a company that develops virtual reality software for mental healthcare, announced the appointment of Andy Mathis as its new chief business officer and Steve Howarth as its chief financial officer.
Mathis' previous roles include head of Android carrier partnerships in North America at Google, head of customer account management at Oculus, director of healthcare partnerships for the...
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