It’s been well established that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption and use of digital health tools. But now, stakeholders must figure out just how to take that increased utilization to address issues in healthcare, namely equity and accessibility.
To help answer these questions, the Morehouse School of Medicine teamed up with United Health Foundation Partners to conduct the Digital...
Morgan Health, JP Morgan Chase’s new healthcare business, is investing $50 million in Vera Whole Health, a company that aims to provide coordinated primary care.
“Our goal with this first investment is to build a strong coordinated healthcare model – with outstanding primary care and new ways to help employees navigate a healthcare system that is often very disconnected,” said Dan Mendelson, CEO...
Cayaba Care, a new maternal healthcare startup, launched today with $3.2 million in seed funding.
The financing round was led by Flare Capital and had participation from Digitalis Ventures, Kapor Capital, SteelSky Ventures and additional angel investors.
WHAT IT DOES
Cayaba Care was created to address the maternal health crisis that’s occurring worldwide, but especially in the U.S.
In 2018, there...
Healthcare software and services company WellSky is deepening its social determinants of health (SDOH) offerings by acquiring Healthify.
The New York-based startup has created an SDOH infrastructure that builds and supports networks of community-based organizations and local healthcare providers. Its interoperable technology platform then allows providers to search for local social services,...
Google is combating food insecurity with the launch of its new website called Find Food Support, which includes a Google Map locator tool and destigmatizing online resources.
The tech giant collaborated with No Kid Hungry, FoodFinder and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to pinpoint 90,000 locations with free food support across the country and has plans to add even more.
Making up the bulk of...
A new market segment is emerging in digital health with the aim of making healthcare more inclusive and accessible for a traditionally overlooked population: the LGBTQ+ community.
Prior to 2020, there weren’t any digital health companies in the U.S. exclusively focused on serving LGBTQ+ individuals that were backed by investors, according to Rock Health. That year, LGBTQ+ health startups came out...
With the rising visibility of the LGBTQ+ community this pride month and beyond, it might seem as though this historically underserved and discriminated-against group has overcome most of its obstacles.
From the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in the U.S. to last year’s SCOTUS decision that protected employees against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or...
The Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine today launched its Health Equity Tracker, a data platform that highlights the disparate impacts of COVID-19 on marginalized communities.
Built with support from Gilead Sciences, Google.org, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the CDC Foundation, the tracker is a data visualization tool that displays the scale of COVID-19 cases...
A new health equity initiative from Fitbit is aiming to put research tools into the hands of traditionally underrepresented early career researchers to empower investigations into health disparities.
Announced this week, the Health Equity Research Initiative will award up to $500,000 in Fitbit products and services to researchers looking specifically at health inequalities in underserved...
AI isn't ready for COVID-19 prime time. A systematic review of published this week in nature machine intelligence warns that new models using machine learning to review chest radiographs and chest computed tomographies for COVID-19 have major methodical deficiencies or underlying biases.
Among the 62 published or pre-print papers outlining these approaches, the authors wrote that not a single one...
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