Healthcare automation company Olive is selling its AI-enabled utilization management tool for payers to health information network Availity.
The deal marks another product divestiture for Olive. Axios first reported last fall the company was selling its population health and 340B management tools to healthcare AI company Rotera.
Those sales came several months after Olive announced it was laying...
Audio-only telehealth visits still make up a significant portion of primary and behavioral healthcare at federally qualified health centers in California, according to a RAND Corporation study published in JAMA.
Though audio-only visits have declined from the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers found they accounted for one in five primary care visits and two in five behavioral health...
Canadian direct-to-consumer virtual care startup Felix announced last week it had raised C$18 million ($13.3 million).
The round was led by BDC Capital with participation from the Canadian Business Growth Fund (CBGF), Whitecap Venture Partners and Mantella Venture Partners.
WHAT IT DOES
Felix offers online consultations and prescriptions for birth control, PrEP, weight loss, hair loss, erectile...
Though health tech investment dropped last year, there's still plenty of need for innovation in healthcare, said Peter Micca, audit and assurance partner and national health tech leader at Deloitte.
Micca sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the consulting firm's recent report on the health tech investment environment and the growing role of platform-enabled ecosystems.
MobiHealthNews: What...
Aetna, the insurer owned by CVS Health, on Thursday announced a value-based care partnership with digital gastrointestinal care startup Oshi Health.
Oshi offers virtual access to a team of providers – including a gastroenterologist, dietitian, behavioral health clinician and a health coach – to patients with digestive concerns like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), Crohn's Disease and ulcerative...
Online alcohol recovery programs Monument and Tempest shared users' personal information with third-party advertisers for several years, according to a data breach notification filed last week with California's attorney general.
In the notice, first reported by TechCrunch, Monument said it used pixel-tracking technologies from companies like Meta, Google, Bing and Pinterest "without the...
Black children and kids from lower socioeconomic backgrounds were less likely to participate, share data and engage with research that used wearable devices, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.
The study included wearable device data collected from more than 10,000 children ages 11 through 13 years old in the ongoing Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study. ...
Digital health startups raised $3.4 billion across 132 deals in the first quarter, according to Rock Health's latest funding report.
Though investment in Q1 surpassed the last two quarters – where companies notched $2.7 billion in Q4 and $2.2 billion in Q3 – the authors noted this probably isn't a return to the booming funding environment seen in 2021 and early 2022.
"Overall, Q1’s mega-deal...
Medtech company Masimo announced it had received FDA De Novo clearance for Opioid Halo, the company's opioid overdose alert system.
The monitoring system aims to prevent overdose by alerting family members or caregivers when a patient is experiencing opioid-induced respiratory depression, or slowed or stopped breathing that can be fatal.
Opioid Halo includes four components: a fingertip sensor, a...
Wellth, a digital health startup that offers small financial rewards for completing health-related tasks, scooped up $20 million in Series B funding.
The round was led by SignalFire, with participation from former Evolent Health CEO Frank Williams and previous investors the Social Entrepreneurs’ Fund, CD Venture, Yabeo and the Partnership Fund for NYC.
WHAT IT DOES
Wellth works with insurers,...
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