Virtual speech therapy provider Expressable announced it secured $26 million in Series B funding.
HarbourVest Partners led the round with participation from Digitalis Ventures and existing investors F-Prime Capital and Lerer Hippeau.
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The Texas-based company offers virtual care sessions for patients and families to connect with a licensed and certified speech therapist based on their...
Behavioral healthcare company Concert Health is partnering with WellSpan Health to allow the health system's South Central Pennsylvania and Northern Maryland primary care providers to provide same-day behavioral health services to patients through the digital health startup's platform.
Concert Health offers primary care, women's health and pediatric providers with behavioral health support for...
Virtual care company Teladoc may be facing another class action lawsuit filed on behalf of Teladoc investors who claim the company made false or misleading statements and failed to disclose that it continued to increase marketing spending, particularly regarding its mental health offering BetterHelp.
The lawsuit, Stary v. Teladoc Health, Inc. et al., was filed on May 17 in the U.S. District...
Direct-to-consumer virtual care company Hims & Hers is the latest digital health company to announce it will add GLP-1 medications to its offerings to assist users with weight-loss management.
The San Francisco-based company, which launched its weight-loss program in December, said users will now have access to generic and 503B compounded injectable medications and oral medication kits...
Transcarent, a digital platform focused on the self-insured employer market, announced the launch of WayFinding, an AI-enabled consumer-facing platform that offers clinical guidance, benefits navigation and care delivery.
The platform guides patients through receiving care by answering questions about benefits and costs, recommending an appropriate course of clinical action, and then connecting...
New Jersey-based nutritional supplements supplier The Vitamin Shoppe announced its launching of Whole Health Rx, a telehealth service that will connect users with providers to help them access GLP-1 medications for weight management.
GLP-1s, or glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, are a class of medications used to treat type 2 diabetes, but have recently become more popular for managing...
Manifold, an AI-enabled clinical research platform, announced five new appointments to its leadership team and two new members of its advisory team.
Chris McMahon joins the company as chief people officer, Alex Akersd as vice president of growth, Danielle Kowalski as vice president of legal, Megan Ahigian as senior director of product and partnerships and Taylor Gleason as senior director of...
Kansas City-based Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute is partnering with virtual specialty care company Story Health to codevelop an atrial fibrillation (AFib) program for the health system's patients.
The program, which will be rolled out in the coming months, will include features for optimizing treatment, such as lifestyle recommendations, monitoring or adjusting medications, and...
The Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group released a roadmap for AI policy in the U.S. Senate, encouraging the Senate Appropriations Committee to fund cross-government artificial intelligence research and development projects, including research for biotechnology and applications of AI that would fundamentally transform medicine.
The group acknowledges AI's various use cases, including those within...
LG Electronics announced the launch of a new venture, Primefocus Health, which will develop a provider-facing healthcare-delivery platform that leverages technologies and therapies to aid in remote patient monitoring and give patients access to new therapies through technology applications.
It will also allow providers to collect patient data, communicate with patients, track progress and...
