telehealth
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Equip Expands Care to Adults, Banks Investment From General Catalyst
San Diego-based Equip, which was founded in 2019, previously focused on those ages 6 to 24. The startup is now expanding to serve people of all ages, it announced Tuesday.
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Remote Patient Monitoring: Gaining Insight into Patient Health from Afar
The era of remote patient monitoring is ushering in a new era of healthcare, characterized by data-driven insights, personalized care, and efficient resource utilization.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Nashville Entrepreneur Center Gears Up for Virtual Care Delivery Conference September 21
Telehealth Academy III, a conference exploring the virtual care delivery landscape, will be one of the highlights of an inaugural week of events organized in the healthcare provider hub of Nashville, referred to as Nashville Healthcare Sessions.
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Babylon Shuts Down US Operations After Rescue Merger Falls Apart
This week, virtual care company Babylon Health permanently closed its U.S. operations and laid off 94 employees. The news came after the company’s rescue merger fell apart — Babylon had planned to go private through a deal with Swiss digital therapeutics firm MindMaze and Babylon creditor AlbaCore Capital.
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Daybreak Health Snags $13M For School-Based Mental Health Services
Daybreak Health — a startup that partners with school districts to provide children with virtual mental health services — recently closed a $13 million Series B funding round. The company has partnered with more than 60 public school districts since it began providing care in 2019.
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
Hims & Hers Dips Into Men’s Cardiovascular Health
Hims & Hers can now provide treatment to men for cardiovascular issues, the company recently announced. This treatment combines sexual health and heart health together in a single pill.
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TytoCare Rakes In $49M for Its Virtual Care Platform
Virtual care company TytoCare recently raised $49 million in growth financing, taking its total funding to date to $205 million. CEO Dedi Gilad declared that his company was founded to solve a fundamental problem with traditional telehealth services: people do not trust them, so they do not use them.
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Driving for Results: 3 Key Benefits of Telehealth
Explore the myriad benefits telehealth offers to healthcare providers and patients alike. From enhanced convenience and improved privacy to streamlined workflows and elevated patient satisfaction, find out how telehealth is reshaping the future of healthcare delivery.
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HerMD Snags $18M to Open More Menopause-Focused Health Centers
HerMD recently raised $18 million in a Series A-1 funding round. The company offers in-person and virtual women’s healthcare that focuses on menopause and sexual health. It is using its new capital to open more brick-and-mortar women’s health centers across the country.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
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Payer’s Place: David Calabrese
OptumRx’s Chief Clinical Officer shares his insights on the latest developments and trends he’s seen in the healthcare industry.
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Study: Telehealth Visits Lead to Fewer Follow-Up Visits Than Office Visits
An Epic Research study found that 16 out of 24 specialties had higher follow-up rates within 90 days of an initial office visit than a telehealth visit. This includes mental health, physical medicine and rehabilitation and pain medicine, which all had a more than 20% higher follow-up rate after an in-person office appointment than a telehealth appointment.
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Introducing Payer’s Place, a Video Interview Series Highlighting Healthcare Payer Executive Perspectives
The series, part of a content partnership between HLTH and MedCity News, will share insights from executives from both public and private payer organizations based on developments and trends they’ve seen in the healthcare industry and what keeps them up at night.
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
Tuned Launches Hearing Solution for Teens
Tuned’s new teen-focused solution, which launches Tuesday, caters to those aged 13 to 17 and will be offered as an employer-sponsored benefit. The program sends parents headphones and an iPad, which comes with two different hearing assessments.
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DexCare Rakes In $75M to Optimize Health Systems’ Digital Care Management
Providence spinout DexCare recently closed a $75 million Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to date to $146 million. The startup gives health systems a platform that helps them coordinate and manage digital care services so they can better address the modern healthcare consumer’s demands for convenience and immediacy.
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Meet Zuri — The Startup That Just Launched to Help People Navigate Infertility
A new startup named Zuri Fertility recently launched. Its platform provides resources for patients who are trying to conceive — including telehealth, at-home testing, prescriptions, mental health services, education and care coordination.