SpaceX astronauts embark on expedition to research reversing immune system aging
NASA announced that four astronauts will launch to the International Space Station (ISS) by August 25 on a six-month science expedition to perform research to improve healthcare options on...
View ArticleHealthcare disparities in LGBTQ+ communities
Thumbnail: Tags: LGBTQ+ discriminationLGBTQ+ healthcareCategories: ProviderConsumerAuthor: HIMSS TVSubheader: Dr. Dustin Nowaskie, president and founder of OutCare Health, talks about the resources...
View ArticleQ&A: Fighting for mental health parity in healthcare using data, part one
Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. Representative and founder of the Kennedy Forum, is a leading voice on mental health and addiction. During his 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives serving...
View ArticleCancer care company Jasper Health partners with Covet Health
Digital oncology platform Jasper Health is partnering with employer-focused third-party administration platform Covet Health to offer its cancer care support services to Covet's members. Jasper Health...
View ArticleStrive Health, Oak Street Health partner to expand kidney care offerings
Value-based kidney care company Strive Health announced it signed a multiyear deal with Oak Street Health, a chain of primary care clinics geared toward the Medicare population to provide care to...
View ArticleAllergy care platform Nectar opens brick-and-mortar center
Allergy testing and treatment company Nectar Life Sciences announced the opening of the Nectar Allergy Center in New York, its first brick-and-mortar clinic, to expand its virtual care platform to a...
View ArticleTrilliant Health announces open access to its National Provider Directory
Analytics and market research platform Trilliant Health announced its National Provider Directory will now be publicly available and accessible via an API. The organization's directory contains...
View ArticleHealth tracking ring company Oura partners with teletherapy platform Talkspace
Finland-based Oura, maker of the health tracking ring, announced its partnering with teletherapy company Talkspace, to allow Oura wearers to share their personalized sleep and daily movement data with...
View ArticleIntuition Robotics scores $25M to scale AI care companion for seniors
Senior-focused technology company Intuition Robotics, which offers an AI-powered care companion robot for seniors experiencing loneliness, announced it closed a $25 million funding round, which...
View ArticleBiofourmis CEO steps down a month after global layoffs
AI-backed remote monitoring and digital therapeutics company Biofourmis confirmed the company's cofounder Kuldeep Singh Rajput stepped down as its CEO just one month after the company laid off 120...
View ArticleRoundup: Online pharmacy MrMed scores new funding and more briefs
E-pharmacy MrMed scores half mil for expansionOnline pharmacy MrMed has raised $500,000 from a funding round led by the Tamil Nadu Emerging Sector Seed Fund.According to a news report, the company will...
View ArticleQ&A: Fighting for mental health parity in healthcare using data, part two
In part two of our two-part series, Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. Representative and founder of The Kennedy Forum, and Nawal Roy, CEO and founder of global behavioral health data platform Holmusk,...
View ArticleHeadspace, Intermountain Health's VBC subsidiary partner for mental health
Digital mental health company Headspace announced it is partnering with Intermountain Health’s value-based care subsidiary Castell to provide on-demand behavioral health services to select insurance...
View ArticleBabylon Health sells majority of UK assets to eMed
London-based multinational digital health firm Babylon has sold almost all of its U.K. assets to digital health company eMed Healthcare U.K., a subsidiary of U,S, company eMed, after announcing in...
View ArticleBicycle Health, Albertsons partner to boost access to opioid use disorder...
Virtual opioid use disorder treatment company Bicycle Health is partnering with supermarket chain Albertsons to allow the telehealth company's providers to prescribe buprenorphine monthly injections...
View ArticleMark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company partners with pharma company, COPD Foundation
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC) is partnering with multinational pharmaceutical company Lupin Limited and the COPD Foundation to expand access to Tiotropium Bromide Inhalation Powder for...
View ArticleYouTube launches new products for healthcare content creators
Google's video platform YouTube announced today it is launching two new initiatives for healthcare content creators: AI-enabled Aloud, which dubs videos in various languages, and THE-IQ Creator...
View ArticleSOAP Health, AESOP Technology collaborate on AI platform and more digital...
Taiwanese medical AI startup AESOP Technology announced it is collaborating with conversational and generative AI platform SOAP Health to create a new platform dubbed Precision Patient Profiles, which...
View ArticleRoundup: Seed funding raised for mental health, robotics surgery
Lissun scores $1.3 million seed fundingLissun, a mental health platform from India, has collected $1.3 million in seed funding from a round led by Inflection Point Ventures and Rainmatter Capital. The...
View ArticleQ&A: Breaking down the racial divide with digital health
A diverse workforce is vital to ensuring patient populations in all communities receive an optimal and effective healthcare experience, but much still needs to be done to ensure proper racial...
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