Today, Aledade and health insurance and wellness company Humana announced a value-based care agreement to broaden the availability of coordinated, quality care for Humana Medicare Advantage members in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Through the Aledade-Humana agreement, physicians in those states will be able to use...
Aetion, a healthcare technology company that delivers the real-world analytics and evidence platform needed to engage in value-based care, announced that it has attracted strategic investment from global leaders in biopharma and healthcare services, including McKesson Ventures; Sanofi; UCB; and Horizon Health Services, Inc., a...
On December 3, ResMed announced that it was acquiring digital therapeutics manufacturer Propeller Health for $225 million. Part of ResMed’s goal in making this acquisition is to help establish itself as a leader in COPD management across all stages of the disease. ResMed is not...
Dignity Health and Propeller Health recently released the results of a newly published, peer-reviewed study that shows asthma-related emergency room visits declined by more than 50 percent for people who used connected, digital medicine to manage their disease. The study, published in World Allergy Organization Journal,...
Nonprofit Providence St. Joseph Health is the third largest healthcare system in the United States. In addition to operating healthcare facilities, the organization has launched Providence Ventures, a $150 million healthcare impact investment fund. “We’re working to bring healthcare into the digital and consumer age to...
App Annie, the mobile performance standard, ranked telehealth apps by the number of iOS and Google Play downloads combined, and has determined that by that metric, American Well is the #1 telehealth platform in the U.S. This isn’t the first year American Well’s consumer app, Amwell,...
McKesson Corporation and Augmedix announced the expansion of an innovative pilot between the Augmedix electronic health record (EHR) documentation platform and the McKesson oncology EHR iKnowMed. Augmedix outfits physicians with Glass eyewear from Alphabet’s moonshot factory. This wearable technology is then used during patient exams to...
ResMed, a company that creates cloud-connected medical devices and out-of-hospital software-as-a-service (SaaS), today announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Propeller Health, a digital therapeutics company providing connected health solutions for people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma. Propeller Health...
“It’s no secret that healthcare has long lagged other industries when it comes to the adoption of digital technology,” wrote Kyruus CEO Graham Gardner in a recent essay. However, he warned, “healthcare industry trends—particularly the rise of consumerism—are driving a clear urgency around digital competence.” Hospitals...
Recent proposed government expansion of telehealth services is facing obstacles ranging from how to license doctors performing telehealth to how to pay for the services. Telehealth has generally been offered to rural patients so they don’t have to travel long distances to see their provider in...