Digital care management platform Sidekick Health announced it acquired Hamburg-based aidhere, a prescription digital therapeutic for people with obesity. Sidekick develops personalized digital therapeutics and programs for chronic and lifestyle disease management, ranging from diabetes…
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Noom, a digital solution that supports weight loss, is now expanding its services for employers to include Noom Med, a clinical obesity management solution. The company made this announcement Monday at HLTH 2023 in…
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Insurer Cigna’s health services subsidiary Evernorth announced it acquired asynchronous platform Bright.md, which it will use to enhance the virtual care offerings of its portfolio company MDLIVE. Portland-based Bright.md offers an automated patient intake and…
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Racial disparities in hospice care are well documented for patients with cancer, but the existence, direction, and extent of disparity findings are contradictory across the literature. Current methods to identify racial disparities aggregate data…
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What You Should Know:
– More than one-third of hospital and health system transactions announced in Q3 2023 involved a party that cited financial distress as a transaction driver, according to Kaufman Hall’s latest mergers…
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced the creation of a new Digital Health Advisory Committee, which will gather “experts throughout the field who can help ensure our regulation of these exciting…
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Musculoskeletal care is a critical service line in healthcare. More than 50% of the adult population in the U.S. has some form of MSK condition, and the impact on people’s lives is significant.THE PROBLEM
Pain…
The NHS’ ambition to roll out 10,000 virtual ward beds by the end of September has been achieved, according to the latest figures from NHS England.At the start of the year, the NHS announced…
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The medical directors of NHS trusts running Federated Data Platform pilots have been asked to sign an open letter of support to patients and the public for the FDP initiative just ahead of the…
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What’s holding AI back? Digital Health asked Robin Carpenter, AI ethics and governance lead at the AI Centre for Valued Based Healthcare at King’s College London, a speaker at our upcoming AI and Data…
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