1st Group sells MyHeath1st to HealthShare
ASX-listed 1st Group has sold its human health bookings business to digital health firm HealthShare for A$1.25 million ($830,000).
According to corporate disclosure, 1st Group is divesting its healthcare service search and appointment bookings platform MyHealth1st to plug cash outflows while focusing its capital investments on its other businesses,...
Oracle has announced that Seema Verma, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will head up its life sciences division.
Verma will serve as senior vice president and general manager for life sciences, where she'll lead the division, as well as the company's data analytics and research arm Cerner Enviza. She most recently worked as a senior advisor to private equity...
CHICAGO – During HIMSS Global Conference's Behavioral Health Forum, John MacKenzie, clinical program manager and behavioral health specialist at CommonSpirit Telehealth Network, discussed how to support caregivers and help patients suffering from behavioral health issues using virtual care.
"If we treated our sepsis patients like we do our behavioral health patients … we would be in jail,"...
Data analytics company Arcadia secures $125 million from strategic investor and financing partner Vista Credit Partners, Vista Equity Partners' credit-lending arm.
The funds will be used to speed up the company's platform development and accelerate its go-to-market strategy.
"Vista Credit Partners is the preferred partner to help us achieve our goals, providing new financing and access to the...
South Korean health tech company Neurophet has obtained certification from Singapore's Health Sciences Authority for its AI-enabled degenerative brain disease diagnosis assistant software.
Its flagship software, Neurophet Aqua, analyses brain MRI using AI to check for brain atrophy and white matter degeneration as seen in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and vascular...
Online alcohol recovery programs Monument and Tempest shared users' personal information with third-party advertisers for several years, according to a data breach notification filed last week with California's attorney general.
In the notice, first reported by TechCrunch, Monument said it used pixel-tracking technologies from companies like Meta, Google, Bing and Pinterest "without the...
During Thursday's vMed 2023 conference hosted by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, speakers discussed medical extended reality's place within mental healthcare and the risks and benefits associated with mental health treatment in the metaverse.
"I finished a 200-page report for the European Commission, and they wanted to know what the opportunities and challenges were as we move from...
Receiving telehealth services for opioid use disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with reduced odds for fatal overdose among Medicare beneficiaries, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry.
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the National Institutes of Health studied two cohorts of fee-for-...
Singapore-based digital mental health company ThoughtFull has raised $4 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by Sheares Healthcare Group, a healthcare-focused investment entity under Temasek. The round was also joined by Vulpes Investment Management, The Hive Southeast Asia, and founding members of tech giants, such as Grab and Zalora.
The company offers corporations, insurers, and...
Digital mental health company SonderMind is acquiring Mindstrong's technology assets months after the fellow mental health firm laid off more than a hundred workers and shuttered its headquarters.
The deal includes Mindstrong's tech and some of the company's tech-related workforce. According to reporting by Digital Health Business & Technology, about 20 workers will have jobs at SonderMind....
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