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...
As 2024 comes to a close, MobiHealthNews asked executives from across the digital health sector about their biggest surprises and most noteworthy events from the year.
The execs highlight AI's potential, oncology imaging breakthroughs, nutrition's role in healthcare, inflated AI valuations, cyberattacks and policy shifts, emphasizing the need for practical integration, patient trust and system...
Toronto-listed HEALWELL AI is making a multi-million-dollar purchase of New Zealand-based Orion Health to combine their capabilities in data infrastructure and AI.
The Canadian healthcare AI company signed a deal to acquire Orion Health, which offers health data management solutions, for CA$165 million or NZ$200 million ($115 million).
The transaction, advised by JP Morgan, is expected to close...
MobiHealthNews queried health executives from across the digital health industry and asked them for their insights into key issues impacting health systems and patients.
In part two of this two-part series on the year's biggest takeaways, executives discuss topics ranging from smart monitors to advances in telehealth, wearables and the direct-to-consumer movement.
Amit Khanna, senior vice...
Monash University has recently established a new centre for co-designing and developing assistive technology with people with disabilities, focusing on emerging technologies such as AI and robotics.
The Monash Assistive Technology and Society (MATS) Centre, which started in 2023, is led by assistive technology researchers and social scientists from the university's Faculties of Information...
Wider Circle, a company that works with health plans and providers to deliver community care programs, is joining forces with managed care company Highmark Health Options West Virginia (HHO WV) to help foster better health outcomes for its members.
The aim is to have Wider Circle’s peer-to-peer approach included in HHO WV’s benefit offerings and help the organization overcome the healthcare...
Ouma Health, a maternity telehealth platform, announced it is entering into a strategic partnership with Marani Health, a digital prenatal and postpartum care company.
The aim of the alliance is to offer an integrated solution that joins Ouma's 24/7 telehealth access to expert maternity clinicians with Marani's M•care platform for maternal remote management.
The combination would create an end-...
Medical Home Network (MHN), a company that partners with federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), announced a collaboration with grocery technology company Instacart to embed Instacart's SNAP eligibility screener on MHN's managed care platform, MHNConnect.
The capability will give care teams at the 80-plus FQHCs that MHN partners with a tool within their workflows to decide SNAP eligibility,...
Zipline, an instant logistics and delivery company, and the Elton John AIDS Foundation are expanding their partnership to deliver HIV prevention and treatment to youth in Nigeria.
The partnership will leverage Zipline's drone-delivery technology to address Nigeria's supply chain challenges, such as access to antiretroviral therapy, which is a medicine that prevents people who are HIV positive...
Editor's note: This article has been updated with clarifying comments from Dexcom.
Glucose-monitoring specialist Dexcom made several announcements this year, including receiving FDA clearance for its over-the-counter continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) solution Stelo, G7's expanded capabilities to connect directly to the Apple Watch and, most recently, its $75 million investment in and strategic...
