The bill that could help fuel telehealth expansion: Lawmakers proposed Cures 2.0 Act, the successor bill of the 21st Century Cures Act—here’s how it could help cushion provider and telehealth vendors’ pockets beyond the pandemic.
Collaboration is key to solving interoperability woes: Health tech startup Seqster is teaming up with CommonWell Health Alliance to fast-track interoperability efforts across the US—here’s why widespread interoperability calls for cross-industry collaboration.
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.