Category: digital health

At-home diagnostics company Cue Health is laying off 388 employees, or about 26 percent of its workforce, to adjust to changing economic conditions, the firm said in an SEC filing.

A “headline-grabbing” health system/digital health company merger? Less digital health investment from hospitals? More virtual healthcare workers to meet staffing shortages?

Healthcare continued its digital transformation in 2022, with sizable shifts toward artificial intelligence, digital front doors and remote patient monitoring, as well as big moves from outside disruptors and EHR vendors.

Benjamin Maisano, the former chief digital and innovation officer of Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System and former chief technology officer of New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System, has joined digital health startup Tendo.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic has partnered with augmented reality medtech company MediView through a know-how agreement that will work to advance the use of augmented during surgery.

Meditation app company Headspace Health has laid off about 50 people, or 4 percent of its staff, Bloomberg reported.

Ten digital health partnerships Becker’s has reported on since Dec. 6:

Data analytics company Komodo Health has laid off 9 percent of its staff in an effort to run a “capital efficient business,” its founders posted on LinkedIn.

Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.-based Phelps Hospital, a part of New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health, has selected mobile communications tool Twiage to help the hospital’s emergency department effectively communicate.

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health plans to use smart rings to track the health of patients through a collaboration with wearables company Movano Health.