Digital Health Industry News

VCs just poured $5.4 billion into startups forging the future of healthcare. Here are the 11 top digital health startups that took home the most cash.

Verana Health Vernana collects massive amounts of data from medical associations like the American Academy of Ophthalmology so that researchers and life science groups can analyze it. One product gives physicians a list of patients best suited for…

Digital health needs to survive beyond the pandemic

Good evening, readers. And apologies for the late send—we've had a busy few days. We just wrapped up our first virtual Brainstorm Health conference. There's no way that I can sum up the fascinating interviews, panels, discussions, and…

Propeller gets green light to bundle its digital health tools with inhalers

European regulators gave Novartis and Propeller Health the green light to co-package their products, opening the door for digital health products and medications to be prescribed together for the first time. Propeller Health makes sensors that…

Anthem's pharmacy benefit manager snapped up pharma startup Zipdrug

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Friendship Bench delivers Digital Mental Health Trial in Zimbabwe

The COVID-19 pandemic has provoked the already high levels of common mental health disorders in Zimbabwe to an alarming level. Depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorders, substance use disorders, and suicides are likely to increase. We…

Business Insider's biggest healthcare stories for July 8

Welcome to Dispensed Daily, your daily dose of healthcare news from Business Insider. Are you new to the newsletter? Sign up here to get this email in your inbox every day. A reminder from Dr. Anthony Fauci: We're still 'knee-deep' in the…

Some states cement COVID-19 telehealth expansions

Some states that expanded telehealth access and coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic are moving to make those changes permanent. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill on Monday that expands telehealth access by barring insurers from requiring…

Proving predictions wrong, health tech funding keeps climbing

Startups VCs are betting on in every corner of tech

New startups launch in tech ever week, while billions of dollars are invested in startups every year. Many of these startups never get off the ground. But some make their employees and investors millionaires. Business Insider regularly lists…

Dr. Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup Discusses Trends in Health Data

We're talking to FPF senior policy experts about their work on important privacy issues. Today, Dr. Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup, Health Policy Counsel, is sharing her perspective on health data and privacy. Dr. Hendricks-Sturrup has more than 12…

Please welcome Teal, a community-driven career development platform

Meet Teal, the latest addition to Lerer Hippeau's portfolio. The problem: Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, more than 44 million people in the U.S. have filed for unemployment as companies across industries have to furlough, reduce…

A great technology wave is cresting over America because of the pandemic - and it's largely a good thing

If history can teach us anything, it's that pandemics have a long-lasting and severe effect on the economy. But there's another lesson: Human ingenuity and adaptation march on. The deadly coronavirus may have shut down a large number of American…

Trump administration plans to extend emergency declaration

With help from Mohana Ravindranath (@ravindranize) Programming announcement: Our newsletters are evolving. Morning eHealth will continue to publish daily for POLITICO Pro subscribers, but starting on July 13th will consolidate to a weekly…

Ade Ajao, Maryanna Saenko, Charles Hudson, Ulili Onovakpuri, and Melissa Bradley are coming to Disrupt

At TechCrunch Disrupt, our Startup Battlefield event is the centerpiece of the event, the true heart of this signature program. There's good reason we take it so seriously. Over the years, our Startup Battlefield competition has helped launch…

WELL Health to Acquire Cycura's Services Division to Protect Personal Health Information

Cycura Inc. is a leader in providing top-tier cybersecurity services, whose key principals have extensive experience in protecting patient health data in the provincial Ministry of Health and acute care hospital settings. WELL's proposed…