Category: digital health

No 'cookie-cutter' wellness apps: Why Providence, Prime Healthcare and Memorial Hermann built their own

Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare developed its own proprietary mental health app at the outset of COVID-19 in early 2020, to fulfill a need hospital leadership saw during a “very dark time in healthcare.”

How Cone Health uses digital 'nudging,' AI to change patient behaviors

Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health plans to use digital “nudging” to try to change the behaviors of chronic disease patients.

Digital health can universalize coverage, WHO says

The World Health Organizations’ “Taking Universal Healthcare to the Last Citizen” conference is supporting digital health as a tool that could potentially universalize health coverage.

With app, Seattle Children's wants to create 'ChatGPT for healthcare'

Seattle Children’s built an app for kids and their families to do Zoom-powered virtual visits, access their MyChart patient portal and navigate the hospital. But its creators told Becker’s they want to keep pushing to create the “ChatGPT” or “Google Ca…

Digital health: Who's up, who's down

The digital health market is constantly changing, with startups coming onto the scene and more established companies restructuring their strategies.

California hospital adopts new wearable device for monitoring blood flow

Mountain View, Calif.-based El Camino Health is using a wireless wearable device to monitor blood flow in real time.

Digital health startup launches GPT-based Chrome extension to help clinicians with paperwork

French digital health startup Nabla is getting in on the GPT craze as it launches Copilot, a GPT-3 based tool used as a Chrome extension to transcribe patient conversations with clinicians, TechCrunch reported March 14.

Digital health funding slumps to $7B: 5 key others trends to know

Venture capital investments for digital health in 2022 hit $7 billion, down 55 percent from 2021 when investments totaled $15.6 billion, according to a March 10 report from PitchBook. 

Providence investing in virtual physical therapy

Renton, Wash.-based Providence is partnering with in-home physical therapy provider Luna to expand its home-based physical therapy services.

ChristianaCare launches virtual primary care

Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare’s Center for Virtual Health has launched virtual primary care options to allow patients to receive primary care via a personal digital device.