Category: digital health

Precision oncology company Guardant Health lays off 130 employees

Precision oncology company Guardant Health has laid off about 130 employees, or 7 percent of its workforce, GenomeWeb reported.

Clinical trial platform Paradigm debuts with $203M in funding, Dr. Stephen Klasko on board

Paradigm, a tech company that aims to integrate clinical trials more broadly into the healthcare system, launched Jan. 27 with a $203 million series A funding round co-led by venture capital firm General Catalyst.

Northwell unveils results from online family caregiving pilot program

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health released results from a three-month pilot partnership program with virtual family caregiving company eFamilyCare.

Q4 digital health funding hits 5-year low

Digital health funding fell to $3.4 billion for the fourth quarter of 2022, hitting a five-year low, according to a Jan. 24 report from research and data company CB Insights.

URMC pediatric hospital launches workforce app for surgical staff

University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center-Golisano Children’s Hospital partnered with digital health company Elemeno Health to launch an app for perioperative surgical staff.

'Not the same thing as ride-share': Transformation chiefs assess healthcare's digital shift

Healthcare lags other industries in its digital transformation, but as one transformation chief told Becker’s, this isn’t “ride-share.”

'Not the same thing as ride-share': Transformation chiefs assess healthcare's digital shift

Healthcare lags other industries in its digital transformation, but as one transformation chief told Becker’s, this isn’t “ride-share.”

Health tech company Innovaccer lays off 245 employees

Innovaccer, a healthcare cloud company that works with hospitals and health systems, has laid off 245 employees, or about 15 percent of its staff, Inc42 reported Jan. 24.

4 startups win Children's National, Oracle Health's digital pediatric competition

The Bear Institute, a pediatric health IT collaboration between Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital and Oracle Health, has named four startup companies as the winners of its second annual pediatric digital health innovation competition….

Former Cleveland Clinic CEO, UC Davis CEO join digital health company

The former CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, Toby Cosgrove, MD, and David Lubarsky, MD, the CEO of Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health, have joined virtual care company Memora Health as strategic advisers.