Category: digital health

Healthcare startup launcher Redesign Health lays off 67 employees

Redesign Health, a company that launches healthcare startups, has laid off 20 percent of its staff a month after raising $65 million, Fast Company reported.

Risks are low for sharing patient data, study finds

The privacy risk of patients sharing their deidentified data for medical research is low, an Oct. 6 study in PLOS Digital Health found.

AI company Olive loses 2 health system clients, selling some assets

Artificial intelligence company Olive is divesting some of its assets, while a couple of health systems are leaving the vendor, a company spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s.

Digital health funding sees a sharp decline in Q3

Digital health companies raised $2.2 billion across 125 deals in the third quarter, marking the smallest funding quarter for all of 2022, according to the latest quarterly report from Rock Health. 

How UChicago Medicine’s Dr. Maia Hightower is helping bridge the digital health divide

University of Chicago Medicine’s Maia Hightower, MD, said her health system is already at the leading edge of medicine. She hopes to bring it to the forefront of digital medicine as well.

3 top execs out at Olive

Three top executives are out at healthcare automation firm Olive, a company spokesperson told Becker’s.

13 recent digital health investments

Despite a turbulent market for digital health companies, investors continue to pour money into promising health tech ideas.

U of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health creates searchable health database for Cook County

The University of Illinois at Chicago and data analytics company Metopio have partnered to create a hyperlocal public health data portal for Cook County.

‘Care now, pay later’ platform Scratch Financial lands $35M

Scratch Financial, a “care now, pay later” platform for healthcare providers, has raised $35 million in a series C funding round.

Former employees file class-action lawsuit against digital pharmacy Medly

Twelve former employees of Medly have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against the digital pharmacy, alleging they weren’t given adequate notice or reason for being laid off.