Health

Walmart picks Epic to fuel its healthcare ambitions: We explore why Walmart’s recent telehealth expansion could have influenced its decision and how Epic opens the retailer up to more traditional healthcare providers.

Dotcom Therapy taps pediatric telemental health: It’s partnering with Goodside Health to bring its telemental health services to more students—carving into the unpenetrated pediatric mental health market.

Whoop jumps onto the wearables for healthcare bandwagon: While its made a name for itself as a fitness-focused wearables company, it might be too late to the wearables in healthcare game.

Apple is letting users show proof of vaccine through their Apple Wallet—an app they’re already spending more time in thanks to the pandemic.

Is AI-powered cancer diagnostics mainstreaming? A Memorial Sloan Kettering spinout got the FDA nod for its cancer-detecting AI tool, and NYU Langone’s study results boast the efficacy of a similar tool—more fuel for healthcare stakeholders investing in AI for cancer diagnostics.

Digital health startups to watch: We spotlight buzzy digital health funding rounds from telehealth company eVisit to virtual care navigation firm Pager—and why they’re worth watching.

Next-level healthcare AI companies combine analytics, clinical, admin applications: Healthcare analytics firm Clearsense acquired AI analytics peerCompellon to expand into predictive AI as all-in-one healthcare AI tools emerge as a standard amid the virtual care boom.

Unite Us scoops up NowPow—but becoming a giant entity won’t necessarily be a golden ticket to success in the SDOH space

VA seeks remote monitoring partners with $1 billion investment: The digital health pioneer is doubling down on RPM and looking for third-party telehealth vendors to advance its digital health-enabled home health push.

The FTC is forcing digital health apps to inform US consumers of any cybersecurity breaches, or else face hefty fines.

Hinge Health sets the stage for the future of virtual physical therapy: It acquired Wrnch to make its computer vision tech more accurate—a move that’ll help it reel in even more payer partnerships amid sky-high chronic pain spending.