Elation Health, which offers tools for telehealth, patient engagement and an EHR geared toward primary care providers, announced on Thursday that it had acquired billing and practice-management company Lightning MD.
Elation said it would combine the billing and revenue cycle software with its tools to offer an all-in-one product in beta starting this summer. Practices who use other management and...
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) and a suite of digital health and pharma players partnered to launch a toolkit aimed at improving diversity, equity and inclusion in clinical trials.
The resources include a guide to each step of a digital clinical trial, shared definitions of terms like "diversity" and "equity," a list of different digital tools that could be used and the potential benefits...
Samsung is partnering with Natural Cycles to add temperature-based period tracking to its Galaxy Watch5 series of smartwatches.
According to the electronics giant, the new cycle tracking capabilities will launch in the Samsung Health app in the second quarter in 32 markets in Europe, North America and Asia, including the U.S. The company said adding Natural Cycles' technology will "give users...
Faro Health, which offers software to help researchers design clinical trials, announced last week it had raised $20 million in a round led by General Catalyst.
Participants in the raise include returning investors Section 32, Polaris Partners, Zetta Ventures, and Northpond Ventures. The startup previously scooped up $15 million in Series A funding.
"Faro has developed software that allows rapid...
After nearly 25 years at Kaiser Permanente, Trina Histon recently took on a new challenge at Woebot Health, the company behind a chatbot for mental healthcare.
Histon's new role as vice president of clinical product strategy will focus on integrating Woebot into clinical care. She previously spent several years at Kaiser developing a process to get digital mental health apps from clinicians into...
Online birth control pharmacy The Pill Club reached an $18.3 million settlement with California authorities for allegedly defrauding the state's Medicaid program.
According to the California Department of Justice, the company billed Medi-Cal for services it hadn't provided, allegedly submitting claims for 30-minute face-to-face counseling sessions when its nurse practitioners didn't have direct...
GE HealthCare announced Thursday it had signed an agreement to acquire Caption Health, maker of AI-enabled ultrasound guidance software.
The deal marks the newly independent company's second acquisition announcement since it completed its spin-off a month ago. Shortly after the newly spun-off GE HealthCare debuted on Nasdaq, the company revealed it had entered into an agreement to buy French...
DarioHealth is partnering with Dexcom to integrate the company's continuous glucose monitors into Dario's chronic-condition management platform.
The collaboration will allow Dario's digital health tools for metabolic health to include data from Dexcom CGMs, wearable sensors that automatically monitor blood glucose levels for patients with diabetes.
Dario said integrating CGM data would provide...
After weeks of rumors, CVS Health announced plans to acquire Oak Street Health, a primary care provider geared toward the Medicare population, in a deal worth approximately $10.6 billion.
Chicago-based Oak Street Health runs 169 clinics in 21 states, employing about 600 primary care providers. CEO Mike Pykosz will continue to head up the company following the deal's close, which the companies...
CVS Health is reportedly getting close to an agreement to acquire Oak Street Health, a primary care provider geared toward the Medicare population, for about $10.5 billion including debt.
According to reporting by the Wall Street Journal that cites sources familiar with the deal, the companies are considering a price of about $39 per share. The acquisition could be announced this week, pushing...
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