After digital health startups scooped up huge amounts of investor dollars last year, the market slowed down significantly in 2022. But it's still a relatively new field, and there's plenty of room for startups that can prove their ability to improve care, says John Beadle, managing partner at Aegis Ventures.
He sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the growth in partnerships with health systems...
Smartphone urinalysis company Healthy.io is partnering with Blue Cross of Idaho to offer its at-home kidney damage test to members.
The multiyear collaboration will provide Healthy.io's Minuteful Kidney test, which recently received FDA clearance for home use, to Blue Cross employees and Medicare Advantage members. The insurer said the test kits will first be offered to employees this month...
Carallel, which offers digital health and support tools for family caregivers, scooped up $8.2 million in Series A funding.
The round was led by FCA Venture Partners, with participation from investors including 450 Ventures, Create Health Ventures, Gratitude Railroad, Loud Capital and Wanxiang Healthcare Investments.
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Carallel provides support for people caring for aging family...
New legislation would allow for reimbursement of prescribed digital therapeutics under Medicare, which proponents argue could increase access to these emerging treatments. Still, others say it's new technology, and the wrong reimbursement model could tamper innovation and increase patient costs.
The Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act of 2022, introduced in the U.S. Senate in March...
Headspace Health confirmed it has laid off 50 workers, or about 4% of its workforce.
First reported by Bloomberg, the cuts at the meditation and mental health company are the latest in a spate of layoffs at digital health and health tech companies this year.
Calm, another meditation app that has been expanding with clinical mental health offerings, laid off 20% of its staff in August.
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Health data startup Komodo Health has laid off 9% of its staff as part of a larger restructuring of its business.
The COVID-19 pandemic created opportunities for the analytics company, Komodo’s cofounders Arif Nathoo and Web Sun wrote in a message to employees that was also posted on LinkedIn. But the current economic environment is forcing its customers to seriously consider their purchasing...
Dexcom announced last week that its G7 continuous glucose monitoring system has received FDA clearance.
The latest model of its CGM, which can be used by people with all types of diabetes ages 2 and up, is expected to launch in the U.S. early next year. As the company works out insurance coverage for the G7, it plans to offer cash payment options for early adopters.
The CGM fits on the back of...
Several federal government agencies have released an updated "trail guide" that aims to help health app developers understand which privacy laws and regulations apply to their technology.
The Mobile Health Apps Tool was produced by the Federal Trade Commission as well as the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the Food and Drug Administration and the Office for...
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Some seniors run marathons. Others have difficulty getting up from their chairs. Most possess a level of physical fitness that falls somewhere between these two extremes.
“Medicare Advantage plans need to realize that a one-size-fits-all fitness solution no longer works. The needs of a generation that is in their eighties are so different from those aging into Medicare,” said Vince Pozinski, Head...
Disclaimer: Flare Capital Partners is an investor in Aetion, Cohere Health, HealthVerity, Inbound Health, Iora Health and VivorCare. See the broader Flare presentation here.
In part one of this article, we highlighted the various components of end-to-end cancer care delivery and management and how innovators have emerged to address today’s unmet needs. We unbundled the key challenges opposing...
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