Axios' Erin Brodwin published a new investigation which discovered healthcare automation startup Olive is exaggerating its capabilities and only uses "rough estimations" to gauge its cost savings. According to the report, Olive, which promises health systems cost savings, is only tracking savings if a client requests it. The report also highlighted Olive employees' concerns about how the company...
Globally investors continued to pour money into the digital health sector. In the second half of 2021, MobiHealthNews reported on 251 deals worth roughly $15.1 billion. This brings the total funding amount in 2021 to $28.4 billion, trumping 2020's $13.8 billion.
Insurtech companies came out on top in this half's funding roundup with Devoted Health raking in $1.15 billion in funding and Bright...
It's been a tumultuous year for healthcare, from a global vaccine rollout and the threat of virus variants to the rise of telehealth and virtual care services.
MobiHealthNews asked executives and other leaders in the digital health space what they learned in 2021 and how the rapidly expanding sector will change in 2022. This week we're focusing on whether the rapid growth of telehealth and...
In our final Workforce Re-entry companion podcast, HIMSSCast welcomes Anahi Santiago, CISO of ChristianaCare to discuss the cybersecurity risks and challenges created by telehealth and other teleconferencing accomplishments in healthcare.
This podcast is brought to you by Zoom.
Talking points:
ChristianaCare’s preparation for the pandemic.
Steps to take to secure virtual communications....
Telehealth and virtual care have advanced leaps and bounds in 2020 and 2021, but there are still many ways in which the technology is inefficient or inaccessible, at least compared to what it could be. Host Jonah Comstock welcomes Dr. Daniel Kraft, founder and chair of Exponential Medicine, to talk about what the future might hold for telehealth and virtual care.
This is the latest episode in our...
While the world has been glued to Elizabeth Holmes' trial, the digital health startup world hasn't given up on the original dream of Theranos: convenient, accessible, low-cost blood testing available at retail locations in the community.
In today's HIMSSCast, host Jonah Comstock checks in with David Stein, CEO of Babson Diagnostics. The company has developed a low-volume blood test that can be...
In the second episode of "Industry Voices", we talk to a range of healthcare changemakers encountered at HLTH in Boston last month about health equity. Is the industry's attitude toward this important topic changing? Is it changing fast enough? And what steps and attitudes will be necessary to make the future of healthcare an inherently equitable one?
This episode features the voices of Cityblock...
Overnight, in 2020, telehealth became table stakes. Video visits, which had been slowly striving for adoption, became a necessity for the nation's care providers, and they quickly built the infrastructure for them. The result is that video will at least be a part of healthcare offerings going forward for almost every provider.
But video visits are just doctors' appointments transplanted into the...
In a field changing as quickly as healthcare, ongoing training and education are essential. And just as it did with telehealth and physician collaboration, COVID has helped accelerate work that was already going on in remote medical education. In today's episode of HIMSSCast, we will talk to two startup founders working on remote workforce training from different angles. First, host Jonah...
Rapid-diagnostics company Cue Health earned $223.7 million in revenue for the third quarter of 2021, compared with $137.4 million for the prior quarter and $4.7 million for the prior year.
The company went public in late September, raising $213.9 million in proceeds after underwriting fees.
Net income dipped slightly to $19.3 million compared with $19.8 million in the second quarter, and earnings...
