Apple is working on several health-related enhancements to the Apple Watch, including sensors to monitor body temperature and blood sugar, plus a special edition for extreme sports, but it’s tough to know if that’s enough for the tech giant to finally make some inroads with...
Multispecialty telehealth platform Hims & Hers will acquire London-based health program Honest Health, which works in hair-loss-related products, a press release said Monday (June 14). With the acquisition, Hims & Hers will expand its London offering. Honest Health, formed in 2019, offers access to compounded...
Amazon has signed up numerous companies for its telehealth service, CNBC reported. The service is called Amazon Care, and it launched in 2019. Via the service, users can access virtual healthcare visits, free telehealth consultations and paid in-home visits from nurses for testing and vaccinations,...
It took a pandemic to bring healthcare into the connected economy. Before the pandemic, the ability of a consumer to access a doctor via a connected device was minimal. In 2018, the American Hospital Association endorsed the expanded usage of telehealth and noted that the practice needed...
Procurement Partners, which works in procure-to-pay (P2P) solutions for post-acute care and assisted living facilities, has bought New York-based On.Care, a press release said Tuesday (June 8). On.Care is an eProcurement provider for nursing and assisted living facilities. With the acquisition, Procurement Partners has created...
The quixotic quest to unify and streamline fragmented U.S. healthcare is getting a dramatic boost in the wake of the global health crisis. Digital technology is stepping into the tangle of deductibles, premiums and medical pricing with new capabilities that pull from a wide range...
The healthcare industry has developed a special reputation for being a difficult environment for innovation, a place where new technology, ironically, goes to die. The inevitable outcome of this, Nuance Chief Strategy Officer Peter Durlach told PYMNTS, is that healthcare has been late to the...
Within a market that is enthralled by meme stocks and consumed by crypto, the deal flow within the healthcare sector took a noticeable jump this week as investors turned their attention to something slightly more tangible. With three consecutive months of 200-plus healthcare funding deals completed,...
In the 15 months since Verizon announced its half-billion dollar purchase of teleconferencing Zoom competitor BlueJeans the embrace and use of this alternative to in-person meetings has fundamentally changed and exponentially grown, be it for business, fun or more serious endeavors like medical appointments. In...
