MDLive unveiled new data showing it captured patients who were otherwise forgoing primary care. We unpack why virtual primary care alone is not enough to sustain consumers in the post-pandemic future.
Health passports could leave travelers homesick
Payers iron out wrinkles in social determinants of health programs: Priority Health launched a project alongside three leading SDOH startups that could solve a major pain point in social health projects: quantifying health factors like food insecurity.
Hims&Hers puts more skin in the D2C healthcare game: The telehealth company is acquiring teledermatology startup Apostrophe—here’s how its telehealth expansion strategy across specialties will help it meet consumer demand.
Pear Therapeutics announced it’s going public via a $1.6B SPAC merger—while we think it could trigger a string of digital therapeutics M&As, CMS reimbursement will be the key to wide-scale expansion.
Are virtual clinical trials just as good as in-person? HumanFirst and Duke’s Clinical Research Institute are studying how clinical trials can best use remote monitoring tech—which starts to answer the big question of whether digital health tracking data is reliable enough to inform big healthcare decisions.
Amazon accelerates healthcare innovation: Amazon Web Services and KidsX launched an accelerator for digital health startups—here’s how it hints at Amazon’s eye for the pediatrics digital health market.
Employers and their workers don’t see eye to eye on mental health: A new study reveals employees don’t always agree with how accepting their workplace is of mental health issues—here’s how digital mental health benefits could come in handy.
Provider organization M&As foster more room for digital health transformation
Google's consolidating its health records and Search talent teams into its Fitbit business—this could signal its intent to pair Fitbit with personal health records, giving it enough ammo to catch up to Apple.
FCC paves more of the US with telehealth connectivity: Its Connected Care Pilot Program welcomed 36 new projects aimed at bridging the connectivity divide across the US—which could lure more telehealth vendors into new geographic markets.
On today's episode, we discuss how productivity is being reimagined in the WFH era, the implications of physical stores closing again this Thanksgiving, which companies have had recent turnaround performances, whether Netflix opening an online store makes sense, what the Olympics going ahead could mean for everyone, how to trick yourself into eating less, and more. Tune in to the discussion with eMarketer principal analysts Nicole Perrin and Paul Verna and analyst at Insider Intelligence Blake Droesch.