Category: digital health

Accessing healthcare digitally hasn’t improved as much as patients and providers would like, so the American Hospital Association has formulated four recommendations for making it easier.

The first half of 2023 averaged just 12 digital health startup acquisitions per month, down from 15 a month in 2022 and 14 monthly over the past five years, Rock Health found.

At Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center, patients can now self-register in the emergency department via their mobile devices or through the health system’s patient portal.

IntelyCare has laid off at least 30 employees, BostInno reported July 11, becoming the third gig-nursing platform to reduce its workforce in recent weeks.

Monterey, Calif.-based Montage Health is installing Xealth, a digital health platform spun out of Renton, Wash.-based Providence.

Digital health funding continues to slip, with the industry bringing in $2.5 billion in funding in the second quarter, putting 2023 on track to be the lowest funding year since 2019, according to data released July 10 by Rock Health. 

The National Academy of Medicine formed a digital health consortium in 2011 that continues to add members toward its aim of boosting population and patient-level health.

Aaron Neinstein, MD, the former vice president of digital health at San Francisco-based UCSF Health, has left the health system to join healthcare artificial intelligence company Notable.

The digital health market can be turbulent. Here are five digital health companies laying off workers:

This week in the digital health market, companies laid off employees and top health systems installed new digital health platforms.