After years of slow movement advancing telehealth, remote patient monitoring and other digital health technologies, the landscape changed rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, said Jodi Daniel, managing director of Crowell Health Solutions.
At HIMSS23, Daniel, who previously served as the founding director of the Office of Policy in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...
The Supreme Court's decision that overturned Roe v. Wade officially came down more than half a year ago, and abortion access has narrowed for a large portion of the country.
Elizabeth Bailey, managing director at RH Capital, said there are plenty of opportunities for digital health investors and startups to make waves in the women's health space.
Though women's health tech still makes up a...
Reproductive care company carafem launched a new process that aims to provide faster access to abortion pills.
Patients living in Illinois, Colorado, New Mexico and Maryland can be evaluated for the medications without a mandatory telephone or video call. After completing a form on carafem's website, medical staff members review patient history and share information about the process and options...
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a comment from Apple.
Ten state attorneys general are urging Apple to add new protections for reproductive health data contained in third-party apps hosted on the App Store.
In a letter sent to CEO Tim Cook, attorneys general of California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont and...
Requests for abortion medications provided through telemedicine surged in the wake of the Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, according to an analysis published in JAMA.
The study followed anonymous requests to self-manage abortions received through Aid Access, a nonprofit that mails the pills mifepristone and misoprostol to patients in the U.S. and other countries. It divided...
Google will clearly label healthcare facilities that provide abortions in Search and Maps to reduce confusion among users looking for the procedure.
The change comes months after Congressional Democrats pushed the tech giant to better differentiate between abortion clinics and crisis pregnancy centers, which try to dissuade people from seeking abortions and may not offer accurate medical...
Google will automatically delete location history when users visit sensitive places like abortion clinics, according to a blog posted last week.
In the post, the tech giant said the location history setting on Google accounts is off by default, and users who turn it on can remove data at any time. The new protections will delete entries from places like counseling centers, domestic violence...
Online searches for abortion medications soared after a Supreme Court draft decision overturning Roe v. Wade leaked in early May, according to an analysis published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Researchers analyzed Google searches originating in the U.S. that mentioned terms like "abortion pill" or the medications "mifepristone/mifeprex" or "misoprostol/cytotec." They pulled data from January 1,...
UPDATE JUNE 30
Less than a week after Flo tweeted about its plans to launch an "anonymous mode" to its period-tracking app, the company revealed the new feature will be available in the coming weeks.
Flo said users will be able to enter anonymous mode through the iOS and Android app settings, allowing them to use it without personal email, name and technical identifiers. If the company receives "...
In the wake of a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion access is set to be restricted further across many states in the U.S. About half of the states would likely make abortion illegal or restrict it heavily if Roe is overturned.
But the landscape for abortion access – and women's healthcare, in general – has greatly changed since the case was decided in...
