A webinar sponsored by AVIA Health and SeamlessMD will discuss the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend these benefits beyond chronic conditions all while using fewer staff resources.

Allurion Technologies has commercialized a gastric balloon in the form of a pill that patients swallow. But the weight loss platform from the now NYSE-listed company also includes AI-driven software that provides insights about a patient’s progress, technology with the potential for use alongside obesity drugs.

BeCare Link has developed software that enables the traditional in-person multiple sclerosis assessment to be done remotely on a patient’s own mobile device. The startup was named the winner of MedCity’s recent Pitch Perfect contest.

The Series D funding round was led by growth equity firm Stripes. Hello Heart’s latest haul brings the total amount the company has raised since its founding in 2013 to $138 million.

To truly move the needle on healthcare costs and outcomes, we need a more integrated care delivery model. This should fill in the gaps between scheduled appointments and foster more regular connections between healthcare consumers and their providers.

The Series D round of funding makes Biofourmis a unicorn valued at $1.3 billion. CEO and founder Kuldeep Singh Rajput said that the new capital will be used to expand his company’s remote-monitoring technologies and continue development of digital therapeutics, both as companions to traditional drugs and as monotherapies.

Neuroglee recently raised $10 million in funding and struck a partnership with Mayo Clinic. It’s building a digital therapeutic and virtual programs for people with mild cognitive impairment. 

The health technology company will use the investment to deploy its cancer care management platform and remote monitoring program at more health systems and to advance its research capabilities. Philips Health Technology Ventures led the equity round, and Cerner was a returning investor.

Providing care for chronic disease patients during a one-in-a-century pandemic is full of challenges, but health systems like Jefferson Health are finding ways — with help from technology — to make sure their patients are getting the care they need.

The final physician payment rule for next year includes changes to the list of telehealth services covered by Medicare and updated payment policies for remote physiologic monitoring.

The digital therapeutics company is rolling out its remote monitoring solution — developed with Brigham and Women’s Hospital — across the country, which can help hospitals rapidly implement hospital-at-home programs. The announcement comes soon after CMS launched a program enabling health systems to provide hospital-level care at home for more than 60 conditions.

the pandemic has brought much-needed attention to how technology can help take down barriers to care and bridge care gaps—by shifting healthcare to people’s homes.

In a interview, an executive from Medable said patients will likely demand to have the choice of whether to show up at trial sites or participate in studies remotely. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated a trend toward decentralized trials that was already underway before it began.

Four experts with the VA, Providence St. Joseph Health, Microsoft and One Medical shared what is needed for continued adoption of telehealth. Most pointed to better integration with clinical workflows and new payment models as future drivers for growth.

Designed long before the Covid-19 pandemic, Philips received FDA clearance for a wearable sensor that can track respiratory rate. The disposable patch is used to monitor patients after they are moved from the ICU to another care setting.

Biofourmis, a Boston-based startup that uses analytics to predict problems in patients with heart failure, acquired Gaido Health from Takeda Pharmaceuticals. The startup said the deal would help it expand its work into oncology.

With COVID-19 cases now reported in 73 countries, physicians around the globe are looking for ways to combat the disease. While pharmaceutical companies search for new treatments, healthcare providers are also turning to technologies that allow them to care for patients while minimizing exposure to the virus.

A new eBook from MedCity News explores different approaches to clinical trial design such as how technology could support remote monitoring for clinical trials and how pharma companies can improve clinical trial diversity.

The two healthcare companies will provide remote monitoring for Medicare Advantage members at high risk of hospital readmission and congestive heart failure patients.

While the Apple Watch and other wearables have made significant inroads in the consumer arena, Sony felt the market could use a more robust B2B approach.

Best Buy’s acquisition of CST builds on the company’s $800 million purchase of Great Call last year, which served to steer the company’s business in a strategic direction towards providing technology products, services and solutions to the aging population.

The Los Angeles-based startup positions the new offering as building on the existing relationships between patients and physicians established through its house call model.

Here’s how providers at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Brazil take care of workers on an oil platform away from the continent.

The program will include services like remote monitoring, virtual urgent care visits through Intermountain Connect Care, appointment video visits and physical therapy, to name a few.

The company, Sentinel Healthcare, plans to use the money to further develop its product and scale its customer base and patient population.

Certain CNA policyholders who are still living in their homes will have access to GreatCall’s Lively Home and Lively Mobile solutions.

The hospital’s affiliated doctors at Weill Cornell Medicine will utilize the Philips eCareCoordinator and eCareCompanion solutions.

Informed by learnings from its collaboration with AARP, VRHealth announced at CES that it has launched a VR platform, which includes healthcare-related apps for consumers to use at home.

Geneva Health Solutions’ cloud-based technology platform and remote monitoring service will be used to help Ochsner’s patients with cardiac device implants in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.