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By  Jessica Hagen 08:00 am December 31, 2024
Executives highlighted AI's transformative potential in healthcare when asked by MobiHealthNews how they see AI's place in the sector changing in 2025.  Some expect multimodal AI and advanced diagnostic imaging to make significant strides next year, while others showcased AI's promise in improving diagnostics, addressing provider burnout, automating tasks, streamlining drug development and...
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By  Jessica Hagen 08:00 am December 27, 2024
Executives across the digital health sector shared their insights with MobiHealthNews on whether mergers and acquisitions will continue to play a major role in the industry in 2025. Many pointed to factors such as shifts in the political climate, company valuations and large organizations seeking to expand their portfolios as potential drivers of increased M&A activity. Sean Mehra, cofounder...
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By  Jessica Hagen and Anthony Vecchione 02:29 pm December 23, 2024
MobiHealthNews asked executives from across the digital health landscape to look into their crystal balls and closely examine how digital health investments will materialize in 2025. The exec highlighted how AI and data, return on investment, sustainability, merger and acquisition activity, and the administration's choices for HHS, CMS, and the FDA may influence the everchanging funding...
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By  Jessica Hagen and Anthony Vecchione 11:54 am December 20, 2024
MobiHealthNews reached out to executives from across the digital health landscape and questioned them about unexpected and impactful occurrences from the past year.  Leaders singled out the closing of retail clinics, challenges in the Medicare Advantage market, the FDA's concerns about off-label advertising, the wide variety of AI use cases and the plethora of uses for GLP-1s beyond weight...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:33 pm December 12, 2024
MobiHealthNews asked executives from across the digital health industry – in places from Fortune 500 companies to emerging startups – to share their biggest takeaways from 2024. Their responses highlight a diverse range of perspectives and insights. In part one of this two-part series on the biggest takeaways of the year, explore executives' thoughts on key trends, including the growing focus on...
Vineeta Agarwala, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health
By  Jessica Hagen 09:45 am October 30, 2024
Andreessen Horowitz-backed knownwell, a hybrid weight-inclusive primary and metabolic-care provider, announced it is opening a new brick-and-mortar clinic in Plano, Texas, and will treat patients virtually throughout Texas. Vineeta Agarwala, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health, which led the company's latest $20 million Series A funding round, sat down with MobiHealthNews...
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By  Jessica Hagen 08:09 pm June 21, 2024
Andreessen Horowitz-backed knownwell, a hybrid weight-inclusive primary and metabolic-care provider, announced it has acquired AI-enabled precision metabolic-health management company Alfie Health to enhance its clinical decision-support offerings.  Boston-based knownwell promotes itself as a weight-inclusive provider that offers primary care and metabolic-health services, offered in-person or...
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By  Jessica Hagen 12:31 pm January 19, 2023
Boston-based hybrid care provider knownwell launched with $4.5 million in seed funding led by Flare Capital Partners.  Brynn Putnam of Mirror, an in-home fitness platform acquired by lululemon; Lydia Gilbert of women's plus-size clothing company Dia & Co; Varsha Rao of home health provider Nurx; Flybridge LTV Operator Fund; Oxeon; and Larry Summers also contributed funding.  knownwell...