ORLANDO – During HIMSS24 Views from the Top session, "Digital health startups: Harnessing innovation to disrupt and improve care delivery," experts relayed that strength in an executive team (not necessarily a product) and solutions that solve providers' pain points are top of mind.
"There are a series of attributes we tend to weigh pretty heavily–the strength and relevance of the executive team...
Portuguese professional football player Cristiano Ronaldo announced the launch of Erakulis, a wellness app that offers fitness, nutrition and mental health services.
The athlete founded the company to provide holistic health offerings that merge technology and curated content crafted under his guidance.
Users can access personalized wellness plans, including fitness programs, nutrition and mental...
ORLANDO – Juan Santos, SVP of brand experience and innovation at the Tavistock Group and innovator in Orlando's planned community Lake Nona, kicked off the Venture Connect Program at HIMSS24.
"If you read about Lake Nona, it has been called Medical City by the media," Santos said. "The reason for this is that at the core of Lake Nona, at the base of who we are, we have a very solid healthcare...
ORLANDO – According to experts, financial return on investment is not the only aspect that should be considered when examining the implementation of virtual care technologies.
"Sometimes there is no pathway to return on investment, the pathway is blurry or assumptions are made," Chad Ellimoottil, professor and medical director of virtual care at the University of Michigan told an audience at...
ORLANDO — After implementing a virtual video telemedicine model in Stanford Healthcare's emergency department, patients have provided more positive feedback regarding their experience than the standard emergency department, said speakers at the 2024 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition preconference Virtual Care Forum on Monday.
"Our journey began with COVID," said Patrice Callagy,...
Following COVID-19, Accenture and a team of companies crafted solutions to help Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) ensure long-term preparedness to address future public health challenges.
Rachel Oldham, manager at Accenture, will discuss what the team has been working on to address DCHHS's needs in a session at HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition in Orlando next week entitled "...
It has become increasingly necessary for healthcare executives to monitor the pharmaceutical supply chain, primarily as overdose deaths related to counterfeit pill use more than doubled from July-Sept. 2019 to Oct.-Dec. 2021, according to the CDC.
The FDA sought to address the issue by enacting the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), which went into effect in November. Still, healthcare...
Chamber Cardio, a population health platform helping cardiology teams shift to value-based care, has secured $8 million in a seed funding round led by General Catalyst.
Existing investor AlleyCorp participated in the round, as did Company Ventures, American Family Ventures and CityLight.
"As we started to contract with providers throughout the country, we saw they are ready for value-based...
Tech-enabled food delivery company FarmboxRx announced it is launching a Maternal Health Program to provide access to food and nutrition education to at-risk pregnant women during and after pregnancy.
The program can be curated for specific populations. It will promote health literacy, focusing on newborn and child immunizations, postpartum mental healthcare, prenatal and postpartum care, vision...
Direct-to-consumer virtual care company Hims & Hers Health reported a total of $246.6 million in revenue for Q4 compared to $167.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2022 and total year-over-year revenue in 2023 of $872.0 million compared to $526.9 million for 2022.
The San Francisco-based company reported a net income for the fourth quarter of $1.2 million compared to a net loss of $10.9...
