Pager Health, a platform that provides care navigation and connects patients to virtual care services, and League, which helps healthcare organizations build digital tools, announced a partnership to address the maternity care experience.
League's platform offers individualized, data-driven maternity programming and care journeys, supporting individuals from preconception through prenatal and...
Google Cloud, health insurer Highmark Health and League, a platform that helps healthcare organizations and consumer health companies build digital tools, announced a partnership to build a digital health platform for Highmark members.
The My Highmark member portal provides the insurer's members with what the companies call a "digital front door," where they can navigate their care, pay bills,...
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way many patients access the healthcare system. It's impossible to put the genie back in the bottle, but providers still need to innovate on their digital front door strategies, said panelists during a discussion hosted by market research firm Frost & Sullivan.
The digital front door includes apps, websites, patient portals and devices that can engage or...
Remote patient-monitoring company Athelas scored $132 million across two funding rounds, earning the startup unicorn status with a valuation of $1.5 billion.
General Catalyst and Tribe Capital each led one of the financing rounds. Other participants include Sequoia Capital, YCombinator, Greenoaks, Human Capital and Initialized Capital.
Athelas' flagship product, the Athelas One, uses a finger...
Lumeon, a digital health startup that employs automation to help with operational functions, has brought on a new CFO and chairman of the board. Mark Clermont, former president of recently acquired Provant Health, will take on the former position, while Dr. Carl Schramm, a professor at Syracuse University and former president of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, will hold the latter.
“Mark...
Deborah DiSanzo has stepped down as the head of IBM Watson Health, STAT News reports. Official details around the reasons for the move are scarce, but STAT notes that the division has had some issues of late, including outside criticisms of the program's effectiveness and problems integrating the recent acquisitions.
DiSanzo will move to the strategy team at IBM Cognitive Solutions. John Kelly,...
Canadian digital employee health benefits company League has just landed a whopping $47.5 million ($62 million Canadian dollars) in a Series B funding round led by Telus Ventures with participation from Wittington Ventures, Omers, Infinite Potential Group, RBC Ventures, Real Ventures, and BDC Ventures.
League pitches itself as a platform that makes benefits easier to navigate and is “consumer...
Adam Pellegrini left his post as VP of digital health at Walgreens Boots Alliance to join fitness wearable company Fitbit. Pellegrini will be responsible for leading Fitbit’s vision, strategies and programs to further drive the company’s integration into healthcare systems around the world. Pellegrini has more than 20 years of experience across multiple sectors of the healthcare industry...
The founders of Kobo, an eReader device company that rivaled Amazon's Kindle, have raised $4 million in seed funding for their next venture: Toronto-based mobile health startup League. The new startup is developing a digital health platform focused on preventative health. League's seed round was led by OMERS Ventures with participation from Foundation Capital, Real Ventures and Infinite Potential...
