Health

Will rising healthcare costs end employer-sponsored health benefits? Not if the gov’t steps up to lend a helping hand, according to most large US employers—and their call for help with insurance coverage is good news for digital health companies like Accolade and Grand Rounds.

Say hello to CVS Health Ventures: CVS launched its own digital health investments arm—a move that should help it benefit its other healthcare businesses and lure in future healthcare partnerships.

Medtronic and Surgical Theater partnered to use AR to boost real-time neurosurgery visualizations. While hospitals like Johns Hopkins are turning to AR to streamline surgeries, it’ll likely take some time before cash-strapped hospitals can hope for wide-scale implementation of the tech.