On Friday Bloomberg reported that Honest Company, an online retailer of eco-friendly baby, beauty and home cleaning products, was working with Goldman Sachs in preparation for an IPO. Honest Company has a particularly high profile because it was co-founded by actor Jessica Alba. If Bloomberg’s report turns out to be true, the public disclosures that come with an IPO filing could shed light on a...
This afternoon MobiHealthNews will kick off its series of editorial webinars starting with our always popular trends and predictions for the year ahead. There's still time to register for the event, which will kick off at 2PM ET -- less than two hours from now. Bring your questions and suggestions for what you believe will shape headlines in the year ahead.
2015 was the beginning of reimbursement...
News broke earlier this week that Scripps Translational Science Institute’s Wired For Health study showed the digital health monitoring used in the randomized control trial of 160 patients had no impact on outcomes or the cost of care during the first six months. The results were met with a mix of reactions from people working in healthcare who shared their thoughts on Twitter.
Some chalked it up...
Teladoc CEO Jason Gorevic took the stage at the JP Morgan Annual Healthcare Conference in San Francisco this morning to share some preliminary metrics around his company's financial performance last year. Gorevic also announced a few new big name Teladoc customers and shared a slide that included Teladoc's estimates for how well their competitors are doing.
Gorevic said that Teladoc's revenues...
Germany-based digital health startup Emperra has raised $3.1 million in a round led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital with participation from existing investors, Peppermint VenturePartners and Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg. Emperra offers a digital diabetes management system that includes connected health devices and software. The company's executives also contributed to the round....
There are a lot of ways to slice up a year's worth of news coverage for a year-in-review, but one of the more fun roundups we do every year is the year in quotes. Below are 77 quotes from our 2015 archive. While they don't all perfectly fit into particular groupings, we've organized them into a few buckets like anti-hype commentary, telemedicine-focused quotes, policy and regulatory discussions,...
What a year 2015 has been for the team here at MobiHealthNews.
As our regular readers know, in September we announced that HIMSS Media had acquired MobiHealthNews and added it to its already impressive portfolio of publications, which includes must-reads like Healthcare IT News and Healthcare Finance.
Over the course of the past four months we've already made great strides to improve the...
It was only five years ago that tablet devices quickly made their way into the hands of clinicians. Seemingly overnight the tablet form factor became a dominant device, used by a majority of physicians in the US, often in addition to their existing PCs and laptops.
Consumer-grade tablets broke into clinical settings as a part of the massive BYOD trend sweeping IT departments at the time. They...
Considering recent events, big name consumer brands are more likely than ever to move into regulated medical devices.
Two weeks ago Apple CEO Tim Cook told a newspaper that while his company wouldn't put the Apple Watch through the motions of an FDA clearance process, Cook "wouldn't mind putting something adjacent to the watch through it." He said that before adding maybe that'd be an app or...
San Francisco-based Joyable raised $8 million led by return backers Thrive Capital and Harrison Metal for its online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and coaching program for social anxiety. Joyable tells MobiHealthNews this round brings the company's total funding up to more than $10 million. It also includes money from a new investor, Collaborative Fund.
The $8 million will help the company,...
