Category: digital health

Kaiser, Mayo, Mass General Brigham: 11 digital health investments in February

Here are 11 digital health funding rounds Becker’s reported on in February.

Digital care is biggest budget increase in '23, hospital C-suite leaders say

Hospital and health system C-suite executives say digital care will be their biggest budget increase this year and expect to expand IT hiring as a result, a March 2 study by consulting agency Guidehouse found.

Color Health lays off 300 employees amid shift away from COVID-19 testing

Health tech company Color has laid off 300 employees as it shifts its focus from COVID-19 testing, former staffers wrote on LinkedIn.

Google's watch can now tell a fall from a burpee

Google’s Pixel Watch can now tell when people fall and alert emergency services, the tech company says.

Cost is driving patients away from adopting digital health technologies

Fifty-eight percent of healthcare practitioners say digital health applications lessen burdens on health systems, but only 44 percent say that digital health applications are living up to their full potential, according to a Feb. 28 study from the Cons…

How one Texas health system is using a digital platform to access diagnostics images

Seguin, Texas-based Guadalupe Regional Medical Center has implemented an image sharing platform from PocketHealth to eliminate its reliance on CD-ROMs for medical imaging and reports. 

Hims & Hers reports 94% jump in revenue

Digital health and wellness platform Him & Hers reported revenue of $526.9 million for 2022, a 94 percent year-over-year increase.

NYU Langone Health brings 'digital patient hubs' to 1,600 inpatient beds

New York City-based NYU Langone Health has deployed “digital patient hubs” to more than 1,600 inpatient beds across its hospitals.

Yale New Haven selects new digital medication management platform

Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health is partnering with RxLightning, a company that digitizes the specialty medication enrollment process, to accelerate the process of specialty medication prescription. 

Digital pharmacy company owned by SSM Health partners with AWS

Navitus Health Solutions, a digital pharmacy benefits platform owned by St. Louis-based SSM and Costco Wholesale Co., is partnering with Amazon Web Services to build a new cloud-based foundation.