The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the launch of a new initiative, Home as a Health Care Hub, that focuses on using augmented reality and virtual reality to improve health equity by reimagining the home environment as part of a healthcare system.
The FDA contracted with an architectural firm that designs buildings with health and equity in mind to consider what will be needed to...
Best Buy Health and Mass General Brigham announced the tech giant would provide technology, human-centered aid and omnichannel logistics to scale and support the health system's acute home-based care offering, Home Hospital, and Medicare-certified home health business, Home Care.
Home Hospital provides home healthcare for patients with conditions such as infections, chronic obstructive pulmonary...
Best Buy Health announced it is expanding its partnership with Pennsylvania-based healthcare system Geisinger to improve chronic disease management at home by combining their expertise.
In 2021, Geisinger launched ConnectedCare365, its chronic care management platform, and enrolled patients in remote patient monitoring programs. Patients received devices such as blood pressure cuffs and glucose...
MedArrive, a care management platform merging telehealth and in-person care, announced it is adding virtual cardiology services to its in-home offerings via a partnership with health technology company Heartbeat Health.
The New York-based in-home care company has a provider network of paramedics, EMTs and other healthcare providers who visit patients on behalf of their health insurance plan and...
Home-based cancer care startup Reimagine Care scored $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Santé Ventures, Martin Ventures and LRVHealth.
Other investors participating include the CU Healthcare Innovation Fund, City of Hope, McKesson Ventures and Sable Investments.
WHAT IT DOES
The company partners with providers and health plans to coordinate care in the home to avoid unnecessary...
Digital health platform Sharecare closed its acquisition of home care provider CareLinx for about $65 million, consisting of $54.6 million in cash and $10.4 million in stock.
“For the last decade, we have leveraged our platform to help people navigate the challenges of home care, as well as provide healthcare’s scarcest resource – nurses and caregivers – with the ability to earn higher pay and...
This morning a new startup dubbed Tomorrow Health launched its tech-enabled home-health-product service.
Patients first enter their insurance information, medical needs and state. The platform is then able to give them a personalized view of home health products that meet their health requirements and are covered under their insurance plan. The company also helps to fill out the insurance claim...
Gento, a tech-enabled home health staffing startup, has picked up $5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Palisades Growth Capital, and brings Gento’s total raise to more than $7 million.
WHAT THEY DO
Through its app-based platform, Gento (formerly Nursing Without Walls) matches care professionals with post-acute care providers such as home health agencies and skilled nursing...
Following a session of live pitch presentations and evaluations, judges have awarded Ooney and Social Impact AI Lab — New York with the top prizes in two healthcare innovation competitions focused on, respectively, home/community care and social determinants of health.
The innovation contests are part of an annual event held here at the Health 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, and are conducted in...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and Catalyst @ Health 2.0 have named the finalists for two ongoing pitch competitions, one focused on the social determinants of health (SDOH) and the other on home and community-based care.
Each competition’s three finalists will be demoing their digital approaches for judges and audience members at next month’s Health 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara, with...
