Health

Truepill trickles into virtual care: The digital pharmacy is diving into primary care and diagnostics, similar to Capsule—a move that’ll cushion them from giants like Amazon encroaching on their corners of the digital health landscape.

Digital therapeutics firm Onduo is branching beyond chronic care management into mental health treatment—here’s why this will pay off.

Geisinger Health rolled out its own remote patient monitoring (RPM) system—here’s why health systems are keen on RPM solutions.

Amazon Pharmacy could be coming in-store: Amazon is mulling physical locations for its Amazon Pharmacy business—we explore why it could succeed and why it could backfire.

Google gets health data deal with a top dog provider: The Big Tech co linked up with HCA Healthcare to boost its health records—though this cracks open another chance for Google to lock in its hold in healthcare, it’ll still contend with patient privacy concerns.

Teladoc, Epic rank best in KLAS: The latest KLAS report throned Teladoc and Epic for having the widest range of telehealth capabilities on the market—and having dynamic range in digital health can pay off down the road.

The Quest for AI-powered clinical diagnostics: Quest Diagnostics partnered with AI-driven digital diagnostics company Paige—another sign of the ongoing digitization of the diagnostics market.

Spelling out the value of virtual care: The AMA released a framework to measure the value of virtual care—this could help health systems get a clearer idea of the return on their telehealth investments, but they still have patient and provider woes to deal with to reap its full ROI.

JPMorgan gives healthcare another shot: A few months after shuttering a healthcare JV with Amazon and Berkshire, JPMorgan launched a standalone venture, Morgan Health—one of several large employers tackling rising healthcare costs themselves.