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Harbor Health, a Texas-based primary care clinic group that offers virtual and in-person care, announced it scored $95.5 million in funding, led by General Catalyst, with participation from Alta Partners and 8VC.
The investment brings the company's total raise to more than $128 million.
The funds will be used to grow its services and expand its specialty care offerings, including designing...
An antitrust lawsuit has been filed against Cigna-owned online pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Express Scripts by several community, independent pharmacies. The suit alleges the company teamed with rival PBMs to fix pharmaceutical reimbursement rates and fees and collect a portion of the revenue.
PBMs manage pharmacy benefits for healthcare plans, and can negotiate prescription prices...
Connecticut-based suicide prevention telehealth platform Vita Health has secured $22.5 million in Series A funding.
LFE Capital, CVS Health Ventures, Athyrium Capital Management, Flare Capital Partners, Connecticut Innovations, CU Healthcare Innovation Fund and HopeLab participated in the round.
WHAT IT DOES
Vita Health connects telehealth providers with youth and adults contemplating suicide....
Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai, together with Oita University in Japan, has built what could be the world's first AI model that uses data from wearable devices to predict Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.
Their research team embarked on a study to create a cost-effective, practical tool to pre-screen people suspected of developing the disease. Their findings were...
The Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore has developed a mobile parenting app which found to be particularly helpful for mothers dealing with postpartum depression amid the recent global pandemic.
The Supportive Parenting app provides information and tips through videos, podcasts, and written articles based on the expertise...
At the JPM Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Amazon announced the launch of its new Health Condition Programs, which allow customers to tap into digital health benefits offered through their employer or insurance carrier, with chronic care management company Omada Health as the company's launch partner.
Amazon aims to help individuals access digital health tools that can help them manage...
Boston-based virtual reality platform XRHealth announced it secured $6 million in funding, led by Asabys Partners, with participation from NOVA Prime Fund and the company's current investors.
WHAT IT DOES
XRHealth's platform allows patients with stress and anxiety, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, and neurological conditions to connect with a provider via telehealth and receive recommended therapies...
Healthcare data analytics company Socially Determined and Uber Health, the ride-hailing company's healthcare arm for patients and providers, are partnering to improve access to food and prescription delivery as well as transportation services by leveraging social determinants of health analytics.
Socially Determined offers payers, providers, life sciences organizations and others an analytics...
Imagineering is the research and development arm of the Walt Disney Company, which is responsible for creating, designing and constructing Disney theme parks, merchandise development, Disney games and other attractions globally.
Joe Lanzisero, former Walt Disney imagineer and current VP of Zeitgeist Design & Production, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the creation process of...
California-based real-world data platform Atropos Health announced that healthcare data analytics company Arcadia has joined its health portfolio, giving Arcadia's provider customers and life sciences users access to Atropos' offerings.
Atropos Health offers AI innovations, evidence generation, analytics augmentation and data evaluation to help physicians access real-world evidence to guide...
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