We combed through Kaufman Hall’s 2022 State of the Healthcare Consumer Report. We’ll detail emerging trends that highlight how consumers are managing their own health.
Digital health feels the funding slowdown: We dive into the most important findings from Rock Health’s Q3 digital health funding report and detail what’s driving the funding drops.
Truepill undergoes fourth round of layoffs: We chronologize the difficult year for the online pharmacy startup and analyze what went wrong.
Private 5G’s big debut: NTT’s multi-party, multi-phase private 5G project for Las Vegas will boost connectivity in schools, power security and monitoring systems, and make telehealth more accessible.
Employers tap virtual mental health to support their workers’ kids: We dig into Lyra Health’s new mental health offerings for teens and kids and detail why digital health solutions must step up to support the entire family.
Amazon rolls out bedside sleep tracker: We dive into how the new non-wearable sleep monitoring product works and how it stacks up in the market.
Patients give telehealth rave reviews: We look at new data from JD Power and unpack what’s driving consumer use and satisfaction
Digital health startups to watch: We spotlight funding rounds from senior-focused mental health company Rippl and online vision care benefits platform XP Health, and detail why they’re worth watching.
At the end of the day, we think the value of Hims & Hers’ new sex report lies more in the titillating topic than the novelty of its findings.
The online grocery giant is eyeing “Food as Medicine” for future growth. We detail how it could support insurers’ social determinants of health programs.
Primary care disruptors could reel in patients with $0 telehealth: We unpack Blue Cross MA’s new tie-up with Carbon and Health and Firefly Health and explain why consumers will ultimately benefit.
VR tech enters the Brain Computing space: VR headsets can now read facial muscles and eye movements to interact with PCs or communicate—advancements that could make the tech less invasive than neural implants.
Zooming in on young Hispanics and healthcare: We look at the US Hispanic population’s attitudes toward healthcare and what providers and marketers need to do to get the younger generation engaged.
Google makes Fitbit data easier for doctors to parse with Cloud integration: But that may not be enough of a lure to help it make up ground in the healthcare cloud market.
Humana, CVS battle for Cano Health: We unpack why the two companies are going after primary care disruptor Cano, and posit which player might have the upper hand.
Smartwatches and fitness trackers face slump: Rising inflation, economic uncertainty, and slowing innovation are ending pandemic-era hyper-growth as the segment matures.
Meta tries to skirt around ATT: A lawsuit alleges that the social media giant injected tracking code into its in-app browsers, breaking privacy rules.
Nvidia’s new edge AI computing platform highlights the need to protect surgical robots and medical devices from hacking.