Amazon's hybrid primary care provider One Medical announced partnerships this week with Hackensack Meridian Health to improve access to care for New Jersey residents, CommonSpirit Health's Virginia Mason Franciscan Health to increase care access to Seattle residents and the Health Transformation Alliance to expand care options for employers.
One Medical, which Amazon purchased for $3.9 billion...
Mendel.ai, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help structure medical information, announced the launch of Hypercube, an AI-powered platform that integrates structured and unstructured text data, democratizes analytics, and allows a user to ask questions in free text and receive outcomes from specific patient data.
Karim Galil, cofounder and CEO of Mendel.ai, announced the new...
Hemant Taneja, CEO and managing director of venture capital firm General Catalyst, and Dr. Marc Harrison, former CEO of Intermountain Health, announced the formation of a new business venture owned by General Catalyst dubbed the Health Assurance Transformation Corporation (HATCo) that will see Harrison as its CEO.
The pair also announced the intent to buy a health system that will put technology...
Grocery delivery company Instacart announced the launch of a new benefit in partnership with Mount Sinai Solutions, a division of Mount Sinai Health System offering health plans to employers and unions, to provide postpartum and postoperative patients access to grocery deliveries and Mount Sinai's Virtual Storefront.
Patients insured by a Mount Sinai Solutions' employer or union health plan in...
Multinational biotechnology company Biogen has confirmed it will shut down Biogen Digital Health, a global unit of the biotech company, and pull out of a study with Apple. Still, the company says it will continue to integrate some digital capabilities into other functions of its business.
"As our CEO Chris Viehbacher mentioned when he announced Fit for Growth, part of the initiative is removing...
Yamaha Motors announced the launch of its new healthcare company, dubbed Tuning Fork Bio. It will use an antibody-profiling service to test and analyze people's antibodies in order to help providers prevent disease and determine proper treatments when conditions are found.
Tuning Fork Bio will utilize the Cell Handler platform, a cell picking and imaging system launched in 2017 that streamlines...
Virgin Pulse, a mobile-first employee wellness and engagement company, announced its intent to merge with HealthComp, a benefits and analytics platform, to create a technology and data-enabled healthcare service for employers.
The reported $3 billion deal, first reported in the Wall Street Journal, will form a combined entity that utilizes technology and an AI-enabled data platform to deliver...
Healthcare navigation and pharmacy benefits platform Rightway and hybrid fertility and reproductive care company Kindbody are partnering to offer employers family-building and reproductive healthcare benefits.
New York-based Kindbody offers virtual and in-person services, including contraception care, fertility testing, gynecological care, egg freezing, and virtual wellness and coaching services...
Self-pay healthcare marketplace Sesame announced it is teaming up with Costco to provide the wholesaler's members with virtual and in-person healthcare at a discounted price through Sesame's network of providers.
Sesame's direct-payment healthcare marketplace provides consumers with access to telehealth and in-person services, including mental health consultations and urgent care visits. The...
Publicly traded telemedicine company LifeMD announced it is partnering with women's health-focused specialty pharmaceutical company ASCEND Therapeutics to improve access to EstroGel, a hormone therapy for postmenopausal women.
The FDA-approved gel is used to alleviate symptoms associated with a drop in estrogen levels. It is applied directly to the skin once a day and is used to help manage hot...