Laura Lovett

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By  Laura Lovett 02:36 pm March 10, 2022
Healthcare operations software developer symplr announced its plans to buy medical supply chain-management software company GreenLight Medical for an undisclosed sum. This news comes just months after symplr sounded the acquisition of Midas Health Analytics Solutions for $340 million. As part of the deal, symplr will acquire GreenLight's software, which is focused on giving health organizations...
Child sleeping
By  Laura Lovett 01:41 pm March 10, 2022
Baby wearable company Owlet is expanding its scope to young children with the launch of Owlet Dream Sock Plus, which is intended for children up to 5 years of age. Previously its smart socks only covered children up 1o 18 months.  The technology, which was designed to give insights about a child's sleep, can be around a child's foot. The wearable can send data via Bluetooth to a caregiver's Owlet...
Piggy bank
By  Laura Lovett 02:15 pm March 9, 2022
Tech-back benefits platform Forma (previously called Twic) raked in $40 million in Series B funding. Ribbit Capital led the round with participation from Emergence Capital, Stripe, Designer Fund, Upside Partnership, and AngelPad.  The company lets employers create flexible benefit programs. Customers are able to curate benefits programs. Employees are able to customize their plans and choose what...
Clinical data
By  Laura Lovett 12:58 pm March 9, 2022
Google is continuing its work in the EHR space, with a new AI-backed tool called Conditions, aimed at giving doctors a holistic view of a patient. The new feature will be part of Google's clinician-facing search tool that helps organize patients' medical records, Care Studio, its VP Paul Muret announced at ViVE this week.  Muret explained that Care Studio's original feature is useful for...
Doctors looking at screen
By  Laura Lovett 03:00 pm March 8, 2022
Current Health is dipping into the chronic care space with new platform features that are designed to help healthcare organizations manage care for patients with a range of long-term health conditions.  The first feature lets clinicians integrate a larger ecosystem of third-party devices, including those that manage hypertension, asthma, COPD, CHF and diabetes. The second feature gives care teams...
Healthcare stakeholder
By  Laura Lovett 01:50 pm March 8, 2022
As digital health comes into the spotlight, established healthcare players are looking to enter the space by partnering with startups and building or buying new technologies. While digital health companies have been around for decades, industry maturation and COVID-19 have led to wide-scale adoption, Michelle Snyder, a partner at McKesson Ventures, said during a ViVE panel this week.  "If we want...
Doctor talks to patient
By  Laura Lovett 02:21 pm March 7, 2022
Now years into the so-called "data revolution," the healthcare system is still working out the best way to use that information to improve patient outcomes. That's particularly true in the population health and value-based care space where scores of data points can be flooding healthcare providers. Technology has surfaced as a way to help manage and organize data for clinicians.  A panel at a...
GoodRx
By  Laura Lovett 11:40 am March 7, 2022
Medication price transparency tool GoodRx is scooping up tech-backed pharmacy platform vitaCare for $150 million in cash, with an additional $7 million contingent based on performance.  Currently owned by TherapeuticsMD, vitaCare was designed to give patients information about their benefits and medication coverage options. It also has a tool that helps payers and providers communicate. Patients...
Person on phone
By  Laura Lovett 02:42 pm March 4, 2022
Yelp reviews of health providers could be a key to identifying patterns of discrimination in healthcare settings, according to a new JAMA investigation.  Complaints about an individual actor were the most common, followed by reports of institutional racism. Researchers also found that about half of the complaints involved clinical spaces.  "This exploratory qualitative content analysis of...
Doctor talks to patient
By  Laura Lovett 02:53 pm March 3, 2022
Connected health company Withings is teaming up with digital metabolic health company Calibrate in an effort to integrate the technology from both parties. Specifically, all new Calibrate members will get a Withings Body Pro connected scale as part of their welcome kit.  Withings customized the scale to complement the Calibrate program. Users are able to weigh themselves and then have that data...