Remote patient-monitoring company Athelas scored $132 million across two funding rounds, earning the startup unicorn status with a valuation of $1.5 billion.
General Catalyst and Tribe Capital each led one of the financing rounds. Other participants include Sequoia Capital, YCombinator, Greenoaks, Human Capital and Initialized Capital.
Athelas' flagship product, the Athelas One, uses a finger...
Late last year, virtual reality therapeutic company AppliedVR scored FDA De Novo clearance for its EaseVRx system for treating chronic lower back pain.
The eight-week virtual reality program is designed to help people control and modulate their pain, AppliedVR cofounder and CEO Matthew Stoudt told MobiHealthNews. The system uses regulation and mindfulness skills, as well as techniques from...
Though COVID-19 vaccines began their rollout to the public, 2021 was still a turbulent year for healthcare providers as they weathered new virus variants, staffing shortages and burnout.
But the pandemic also created a new wave of interest in virtual care and telehealth. Many providers turned toward the modality to keep in contact with patients in 2020, but startups and other organizations are...
At the very beginning of 2021, Amazon’s high-profile healthcare partnership with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase, dubbed Haven, finally broke down.
The goal of the joint venture between some of the country’s largest and most powerful companies was to disrupt the healthcare industry, lowering costs and improving outcomes for their employees. The project shut down after only three years. ...
Younger patients with higher incomes and education levels are still the top consumers of telehealth, pointing to potential access inequalities, according to Rock Health’s 2021 Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey.
The survey, which this year asked nearly 8,000 U.S. adults about their experiences with digital health and telemedicine, found the most likely telehealth consumers were higher income...
Doctor.One focuses on developing a continuous care platform that connects patients with their regular practitioners on a daily basis, and is a mobile-first approach.
WHY IT MATTERS
The aim of the virtual Doctor.One platform is the daily exchange and personal care of patients by doctors they trust. Doctors can subscribe to the service and better accompany their patients through the illness and...
It's been a tumultuous year for healthcare, from a global vaccine rollout and the threat of virus variants to the rise of telehealth and virtual care services.
MobiHealthNews asked executives and other leaders in the digital health space what they learned in 2021 and how the rapidly expanding sector will change in 2022. This week we're focusing on whether the rapid growth of telehealth and...
Respondents to a survey published in JAMA Network Open were interested in using video telehealth visits in the future, but most preferred to access healthcare in person.
“This survey study found that participants were generally willing to use video visits but preferred in-person care, and those who preferred video visits were more sensitive to paying out-of-pocket cost,” researchers wrote.
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Digital health platform Truepill on Wednesday announced plans for a virtual care offering aimed at providing telehealth appointments and antiviral drugs for COVID-19.
The platform, which Truepill said will launch in the coming weeks, will include a patient portal to log COVID-19 test results and symptoms, telehealth consultations, antiviral medication prescriptions and overnight drug delivery or...
Cue Health, best known for its at-home COVID-19 molecular test, will launch its own virtual health platform, pushing the company outside of the diagnostics space.
The direct-to-consumer platform, available on Nov. 15, will include on-demand access to doctors, guided COVID-19 testing, prescriptions and physician-ordered lab tests. The virtual care offerings are part of a membership program, where...
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