Category: digital health

The merger of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health will advance digital health innovation, data analytics and digital consumer infrastructure. 

A startup offering online healthcare pricing information for patient comparison shopping has secured $20 million in venture capital funding to expand.

Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health launched a digital holding company to accelerate the health system’s investments and partnerships in digital health services.

While patients are excited about the potential of healthcare artificial intelligence in theory, when it comes down to the real thing most have major concerns, according to a May 4 study published in JAMA Network Open. 

Renton, Wash.-based Providence is on the forefront of digital transformation in the healthcare space and has a history of working with successful startups to revolutionize care delivery.

Several healthcare stakeholder groups developed a new framework that addresses privacy and security risks associated with digital health tools and apps that fall outside of HIPAA regulation.

Peoria, Ill.-based OSF HealthCare is developing a blockchain-based digital app to improve patients’ health by offering them incentives for healthy behavior. 

Digital health is not in an investment bubble, though innovators may want to prepare for tighter capital markets in the future, according to a Rock Health report released May 2.

Mental health apps have worse privacy policies for users than most other app categories, according to a report released May 2 by Mozilla.

When the tangle of data locked in EHRs is decoded and shared between organizations and institutions, important health insights can be discovered, Nature reported May 3.