WeightWatchers is acquiring subscription telehealth platform Weekend Health, which does business as Sequence. The planned acquisition will add Sequence’s platform, which offers access to healthcare providers who specialize in chronic weight management, to WeightWatchers’ other weight loss and weight management tools, WeightWatchers said in a...
A judicial green light, of sorts, for a multi-billion dollar merger looks poised to cement healthcare’s place in the connected economy — especially when it comes to paying for it all. To that end, the runway has (seemingly) been cleared for UnitedHealth Group’s $13 billion...
The U.S. is launching rules to drive digital transformation through open application programming interfaces (APIs), a move that could fuel new digital medical services and applications, Venture Beat reported on Thursday (July 1). Using APIs, the healthcare community could make medical records available to medical...
Benjamin Franklin famously noted that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure — a lesson the U.S. medical industry has learned the hard way. Over the last several weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, concerns have mounted that the U.S. has neither the...
September 20, 2022
A judicial green light, of sorts, for a multi-billion dollar merger looks poised to cement healthcare’s place in the connected economy — especially when it comes to paying for it all. To that end, the runway has (seemingly) been cleared for UnitedHealth Group’s $13 billion bid for Change Healthcare to proceed. As was reported Monday […]
April 21, 2020
Benjamin Franklin famously noted that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure — a lesson the U.S. medical industry has learned the hard way. Over the last...
February 26, 2024
Connected healthcare platform b.well has raised $40 million in a Series C funding round led by Leavitt Equity Partners. “The successful Series C round builds additional momentum around b.well’s mission to solve healthcare’s fragmentation problem,” the company said in a Monday (Feb. 26) news release. Healthcare companies use the firm’s FHIR (fast healthcare interoperability resources)-based platform to “put […]
March 06, 2023
WeightWatchers is acquiring subscription telehealth platform Weekend Health, which does business as Sequence. The planned acquisition will add Sequence’s platform, which offers access to healthcare providers who specialize in chronic...
July 02, 2021
The U.S. is launching rules to drive digital transformation through open application programming interfaces (APIs), a move that could fuel new digital medical services and applications, Venture Beat reported on...
