Digital therapeutics will be one of the topics discussed at INVEST Digital Health scheduled for October 26 at Health Wildcatters headquarters in Pegasus Park in Dallas. Register today!

A human touch makes a significant difference in healthcare call interactions where an automation-dominant approach would fall short.

The role of the family caregiver is considered part of the cycle of life. But it can be time consuming and stressful, especially if caregivers have to balance their role with a job, raising children, and other aspects of family life. The topic will be one of many discussed at the HLTH event in Las Vegas from October 8-11.

Clinical trial design will be one of the topics discussed at the upcoming INVEST Digital Health conference in Dallas on October 26. THREAD Clinical Trial Design Director Noah Goodson highlighted some of the milestones the sector has seen in recent years.

Quantum Health has bolstered its collaboration with Sword Health by integrating MSK services to members to track home exercise, avoid unnecessary surgery and support treatment of pelvic conditions.

TSX Venture Exchange has a strong history of helping early-stage health and life sciences companies raise patient capital for research and development purposes.

Building on the success of HLTH last year, HLTH’s Head of Content Jody Tropeano shared why the theme for the 2023 event, Elevate Humanity, will highlight the encouraging and exciting developments in the healthcare industry across the event agenda, providing reasons for optimism. 

Presented by the Consulate General of Canada, the Canadian healthcare startup showcase included five companies. Technologies included a patient transfer solution, care coordination, women’s health, exercise tracking and remote monitoring for dysphagia, and mental health support.

The competition saw 23 healthcare startups across biopharma, medical devices, and health tech geared for consumers/employers as well as payers/providers pitch their business plans to teams of investor judges.

Healthcare startups focused on solutions for payers and hospitals as well as consumers and employers will compete in the Pitch Perfect contest at MedCity INVEST May 22-24 in Chicago. Register today!

On the surface, it sounds like one of the simplest procedures undertaken at a health system: answering the phone. But anyone who works at a health system knows it is not that simple.

MedCity News sat down with John Coleman, Business Unit Director at YSDS Life Science, to talk about the challenges of delivering temperature-sensitive goods and how to overcome them.

DexCare is sponsoring a webinar May 19 highlighting how it’s taking lessons learned from online retailers to boost traffic and applies them to their healthcare customers. To learn more, register today.

The complaint alleges multiple violations of the Valentine Act, Ohio’s antitrust law, which prohibits price fixing, controlled sales and other agreements that restrain trade and hurt competition. David Yost, the attorney general decried the practices of PBMs saying that they hurt everyday Ohioans dependent on life-saving drugs like insulin.

Tapping into community pharmacy can bring water to these rural healthcare deserts. Studies show that nine in ten Americans live within five miles of a pharmacy and high-risk patients visited their community pharmacy an average of 35 times per year, compared to four visits to their primary care provider and nine visits to specialists.

Sandy Vance, HLTH’s senior adviser, Interoperability, offered a preview of the interoperability pavilion at ViVE and what she hopes to achieve at the conference this year.

The largest six pharmacy benefit managers are being scrutinized by the Federal Trade Commission, while Congress is debating the Pharmacy Benefit Transparency Act. Meanwhile, states have their own ideas for reining in what they see as excesses of the industry. With all this heat, what is the message from the head of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association?

The newly launched Techquity for Health Coalition from the HLTH Foundation will share findings from its first national survey of techquity at the conference. Healthcare leaders will also discuss on ways to improve health tech design, tech literacy, accessibility, workforce equity, patient trust, and equitable use of data.

In the runup to INVEST and the startup pitch contest, we highlight trends in investment and innovation across bipharma, diagnostics, medical devices, health tech: payer/provider, and health tech: consumer/employer. The deadline has been extended until February 28 and finalists will be announced March 31. Apply today!

With five tracks of startups across healthcare and life sciences, INVEST Pitch Perfect, scheduled for May 22-24 at the Ritz Carlton in Chicago, is MedCity’s largest startup pitch contest of the year. 

Check out news from BioMEMS Diagnostics, Rx Redefined, Ferrum Health and Avanlee Care.

Read about executive hires across healthcare and life science companies and organizations such as ProofPilot, Genentech, MassBio, Virgin Pulse, and more.

Healthcare startup Novellia’s platform seeks to digitally bring in all chapters of a patient’s health journey to allow clinicians and researchers to finally see the full story.

Our research has found that to advance ongoing work, community health ecosystems likely will need additional partners, shared goals, technology, and metrics. But most importantly, they will need the participation and leadership of more community members.

Reducing hospitalizations for frail elderly members is a major challenge for Medicare Advantage payers and providers. The key to avoiding any hospitalization is to detect and address a change in condition before it worsens. Ceresti Co-founder and CEO Dirk Soenksen talks about how his company is addressing these needs.

Check out new developments from Equiva Health, BehaVR, Juno Medical, Cabinet Medical and Override.

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced life sciences companies to take a fresh look at how they do business. But as they reinvent their operations, companies often overlook a critical function: Their learning and development programs.

Covid-19 has forced us to face inequities present in health outcomes head-on and to recognize the systemic nature of health inequality that goes beyond the limits of what the healthcare system alone can change. The Quintuple Aim is a new framework for addressing these health inequities and centering our innovation and improvement efforts on marginalized communities and populations.

Among the takeaways from HLTH 2022 were the impact of consolidation on clinicians, behavioral health tools to help consumers manage stress and anxiety more productively, and how health tech and medtech companies are supporting remote patient monitoring and testing.

At the 5th annual HLTH conference in Las Vegas, 14 healthcare executives from companies such as Babson Diagnostics to Wheel responded to questions such as what’s the difference between a positive and negative user experience in telehealth? They also previewed their plans for 2023.