Category: digital health

Google comes out on top as the best voice assistant for answering medical questions and providing accurate information verbally to users, according to a study in the Annals of Family Medicine.

The Digital Medicine Society collaborated with global healthcare, research and digital health innovation organizations to create four toolkits aimed at helping data producers, processors, and consumers use data from wearables and digital sensing products.

Engage Venture Partners, a new medical technology venture capital firm, launched with its first investment into Melodi Health, a medical device company.

Particle Health, a startup that specializes in patient data, landed a $25 million investment July 12 to expand its healthcare analytics technology.

Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health Plan partnered with utilization management technology company Cohere Health to support its value-based care delivery and reduce administrative costs. 

Many physicians retired early during the pandemic, increasing health professional shortages in specialties such as primary care. Many of the providers who have kept practicing report high levels of burnout.

Digital health and health tech companies, many of them led by women, have been busy getting huge venture capital investments and aiming to disrupt the healthcare industry.

Lawmakers at both the federal and state level are bringing bills to the table that focus on protecting healthcare data in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned, CNBC reported July 9.

Cedar, a digital health startup that streamlines patient billing, has let go of 24 percent of its employees, a company spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s.

Former Theranos COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was convicted on 12 criminal fraud charges, CNBC reported July 7.