The healthcare industry is increasingly going digital, with artificial intelligence helping diagnose conditions and patients with wearable smart devices being cared for at home.
Category: digital health
8 leaders on tech initiatives geared toward improving patient care
As more health systems and hospitals across the country invest in digital health resources, initiatives have been launched in an attempt to ease all aspects of patient care.
CVS Health to bid for $4.7B tech and home health company
Drugstore and insurance company CVS Health is looking to place a bid for home health company Signify Health, which is valued at $4.7 billion, according to Aug. 7 reporting in the Wall Street Journal.
Digital health app Babylon plans layoffs
Babylon, a digital health company that facilitates virtual visits, intends to let go of about 100 employees as it cuts costs by about $100 million, Bloomberg reported recently.
Digital health startup Calibrate cuts 24% of staff
A year after raising $100 million, weight loss-focused digital health startup Calibrate has laid off 24 percent of its employees.
UK home healthcare company Cera lands $320M in funding
Digital-first home healthcare firm Cera has secured $320 million in funding to expand the number of patients it can care for.
Value-based payments company Clarify Health lays off 5% of staff
Clarify Health, a tech company that provides data analytics and value-based payment services, has reduced its workforce by 5 percent.
Prat Vemana, chief digital officer of Kaiser Permanente, is using digital innovation to ‘spearhead’ patient care
Prat Vemana, chief digital officer of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, said digital adoption was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, giving the health system an advantage to use its innovation to serve patients beyond their greatest times of …
CMS awards $33M digital modernization contract
CMS has awarded a $33 million contract to consulting and technology services company ICF to digitally modernize CMS’ office of information technology.
Digital health company Pear Therapeutics lays off 9% of staff
Pear Therapeutics, a company that offers digital therapy programs by prescription, has let go of 9 percent of its workforce, according to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
