Can fresh food make Dollar General healthier? The discount retailer teamed with Bayer to distribute fresh-food coupons to students in select school districts. DG hopes to build more foot traffic in stores where customers are only spending on essentials.
Digital health startups to watch: We spotlight value-based care company Main Street Health and mental health platform Headway on the back of fresh funding.
Cigna invests in asynchronous virtual urgent care: Patients and providers generally are fans of telehealth interactions that don’t need to occur in real time. But adoption of this modality hasn’t taken off yet.
Walgreens launches a virtual care service: It joins several retail rivals who’ve recently expanded or launched their own telehealth services. But with telehealth use declining, are they racing each other to the bottom?
Microsoft releases an AI Health Bot: Healthcare could be a pivotal industry for AI companies struggling to turn a profit on the technology. Maintaining privacy and security are paramount.
Best Buy dives deeper into health tech: It will be selling prescription continuous glucose monitors. We explore why consumer uptake will be slow out of the gate.
Instacart teams up with health plans to address social health needs: The company is collaborating with Alignment Healthcare and Kaiser Permanente to supply nutritious food to members and patients.
Google Cloud releases AI tool for healthcare industry: It promises efficient data retrieval for busy clinicians while raising concerns about data privacy and the necessity of vigilant fact-checking.
Hospitals need flywheels, too: Praia Health recently launched as a platform for health systems to personalize patient encounters and keep them coming back—just like Amazon and Walmart say they do with their own flywheels.
Physicians reveal what they want from pharma: Doctors are generally OK with how they interact with drug companies. But there are ways pharma could deliver more value to healthcare providers—we explore how.
Patients want to relate to their providers: Almost half of patients feel anxious before a doctor’s appointment, and the same percentage don’t feel prepared. This is where providers and marketers need to step up.
Digital health startups to watch: We spotlight medical AI platform Corti and healthcare/pharma marketing solutions company Doceree on the back of fresh funding.
Kaiser’s healthcare worker strike isn’t just about labor rights: The biggest healthcare worker walkout in US history will only widen the trust gap between patients and health systems.
Healthcare, pharma spend big on digital advertising: But growth in spending will slow for pharma into 2025 as healthcare marketers increase digital ad spending. All parties are following consumers deeper into digital channels.
Digital health investments near rock bottom: Investors shifted funding from on-demand and life science R&D sectors to patient- and provider-focused areas like disease treatment and non-clinical workflow.
Therapists are burned out, too: The surge in requests for mental health treatments has exacerbated burnout for mental and behavioral health workers. Health plans and paperwork are causing many to leave the field.
Working women pay billions more than men for healthcare: US employers may lose female talent if they don’t address gender gaps in out-of-pocket medical spending.
Drugmakers invest heavily in ads: New data highlights shift in healthcare advertising trends and channels.
US adults turn to cosmetic surgeries and weight loss drugs: Plastic surgeries are reaching new highs as the pandemic fades. But the “minimally invasive” GLP-1 interventions could pull revenue from hospitals and surgeons.
The upside/downside of retail health clinics: We know that they’re a convenient care option for consumers. But they could cost patients more time and money in the long run.