Food and nutrition tracking app MyFitnessPal announced a new set of tools and content to support members taking GLP-1 medications by helping them maintain proper nutrition and consistency while experiencing weight loss.
MyFitnessPal is a food and nutrition app that allows members to reach their health goals through better food choices. It also provides users with health and fitness information,...
Prior authorization automation platform Cohere Health and health insurer Humana announced they are expanding their 2021 partnership, which focused on the prior authorization process for musculoskeletal issues, to include diagnostic imaging and sleep services.
The Cohere Unify Platform leverages AI to accelerate the prior authorization process by using predictive technology and clinical...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the launch of a new initiative, Home as a Health Care Hub, that focuses on using augmented reality and virtual reality to improve health equity by reimagining the home environment as part of a healthcare system.
The FDA contracted with an architectural firm that designs buildings with health and equity in mind to consider what will be needed to...
Digital mental health company Headspace announced it will offer direct-to-consumer mental health coaching to its subscribers, with therapy offerings becoming available later this year.
U.S. subscribers will have access to a mental health coach within the company's app for issues that may not require a therapist, such as getting better sleep, handling everyday stress or enhancing one's emotional...
GE HealthCare has partnered with radiation therapy company Elekta to develop new software to improve clinicians experience and enable greater precision treatment.
Elekta will use GE HealthCare’s MIM Software imaging management platform, which GE HealthCare acquired earlier this month. MIM’s auto contouring and treatment management platform will allow Elekta to develop radiation oncology...
Patient-management company ABOUT Healthcare announced it has acquired AI analytics platform Edgility, enabling ABOUT to offer patient progression solutions with predictive and prescriptive analysis.
ABOUT Healthcare, formerly Central Logic, provides a product-care suite that allows it to move patients in and out of various settings, such as acute care and home-based care.
Edgility’s AI solution...
Staffing and workforce management company ShiftMed has acquired workforce solutions managed-service provider CareerStaff Unlimited in a deal with post-acute-care provider Genesis HealthCare.
As part of the seven-year agreement, ShiftMed will provide services to 200 skilled nursing and 1,200 Powerback Rehabilitation centers for Genesis.
CareerStaff’s per diem and MSP platform enables healthcare...
Lumeris, a value-based care strategy, technology and operations company, announced it secured $100 million in an equity capital raise led by Deerfield Management.
Endeavor Health joined as a new investor, and BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, Sandbox Industries, Kleiner Perkins and JDLinx participated in the round.
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The Missouri-based company strategizes with health systems and...
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a comment from the NIH.
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have developed an artificial intelligence tool that predicts whether a patient will respond to cancer-treatment drugs using individual tumor cells, according to a study published in Nature Cancer.
Traditional approaches to...
Prescription cost savings company GoodRx partnered with grocery chain Publix to bring the company’s GoodRx Gold platform to Publix customers.
The Gold platform offers prescription drug savings as well as telehealth options, including provider visits and telepharmacy appointments.
Doug Hirsch, cofounder and chief mission officer at GoodRx, sat down with MobiHealthNews to discuss the partnership...
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