Syra Health, a healthcare technology company that provides tools to analyze population health, announced it signed a one-year $480,000 contract to assess how existing risks to public health in Indiana impact public health infrastructure and behavioral health.
Syra is an Indiana-based company that provides population health tools, including health equity analytical solutions and epidemiology-...
On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit announced it would uphold the ban instituted by the International Trade Commission's exclusion order on sales and imports of Apple's Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 in the U.S.
The tech giant, however, has found a way to keep the Watches on shelves and workaround the ban by tweaking their Watches not to include the disputed blood...
Editor's note: This article has been updated with a statement from Google.
Behemoth lab test company Quest Diagnostics is partnering with Google's Fitbit to study how wearable technologies can improve metabolic health.
The pilot study, dubbed Wearables for Metabolic Health (WEAR-ME), will combine Fitbit's behavioral and biometric data with health information from Quest Diagnostics' lab tests to...
Google's video platform YouTube Health announced today it is making step-by-step videos pertaining to first aid and emergency care by reliable healthcare organizations the top search results when users are seeking first aid-related information.
The "first aid information shelves" will include videos in English and Spanish about choking/Heimlich, bleeding, CPR, seizure, stroke, opioid overdose ...
Digital weight loss company Noom announced its commercial business, Noom for Work, is partnering with Liviniti, a national pharmacy benefit manager, to offer plan sponsors and their employees a digital GLP-1 Companion for chronic weight conditions.
GLP-1s, or glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, are a class of medications used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes and, more recently, in the...
An antitrust lawsuit has been filed against Cigna-owned online pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Express Scripts by several community, independent pharmacies. The suit alleges the company teamed with rival PBMs to fix pharmaceutical reimbursement rates and fees and collect a portion of the revenue.
PBMs manage pharmacy benefits for healthcare plans, and can negotiate prescription prices...
Connecticut-based suicide prevention telehealth platform Vita Health has secured $22.5 million in Series A funding.
LFE Capital, CVS Health Ventures, Athyrium Capital Management, Flare Capital Partners, Connecticut Innovations, CU Healthcare Innovation Fund and HopeLab participated in the round.
WHAT IT DOES
Vita Health connects telehealth providers with youth and adults contemplating suicide....
The Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore has developed a mobile parenting app which found to be particularly helpful for mothers dealing with postpartum depression amid the recent global pandemic.
The Supportive Parenting app provides information and tips through videos, podcasts, and written articles based on the expertise...
At the JPM Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Amazon announced the launch of its new Health Condition Programs, which allow customers to tap into digital health benefits offered through their employer or insurance carrier, with chronic care management company Omada Health as the company's launch partner.
Amazon aims to help individuals access digital health tools that can help them manage...
Healthcare data analytics company Socially Determined and Uber Health, the ride-hailing company's healthcare arm for patients and providers, are partnering to improve access to food and prescription delivery as well as transportation services by leveraging social determinants of health analytics.
Socially Determined offers payers, providers, life sciences organizations and others an analytics...
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