Health Tech News Roundup
- A recent New York Times video feature outlined the strategies and technology behind Crisis Text Line, a group that engages individuals at risk for depression, self-harm, or suicide through text conversations.
- Recent trends that have made healthcare more personalized.
- A startup called Shapa has launched a medical device scale app that gives users feedback versus just giving a number.
- What Google's Alphabet did relating to digital health in the past year (a timeline).
- Nurses—the largest group of health professionals in the U.S. at 3.2 million—are ideally positioned to identify, create, and sustain innovative improvements in patient care. They should be empowered to do so.
- How one project is changing the way value is measured in healthcare.
- People are hiring doulas to help them through the dying process.
- Even small amounts of alcohol impair memory, according to new studies.
- Insilico Medicine and the world’s first personal health data marketplace using blockchain.
- Study: The Uninsured Do Not Use The Emergency Department More—They Use Other Care Less
- Pfizer follows up successful smoking cessation app with LivingWith, an app for cancer patients
- Intermountain researchers build app to keep tabs on advanced heart failure patients.
Health Tech Venture Funding News
- Curisium raises $3.5 million to enable value-based contracting via blockchain platform
- Elemeno Health's coaching software for healthcare teams raises $1.3M
- Aledade raises $23M in new funding. The startup partners with physicians to build and lead ACOs, networks of physicians who band together to deliver coordinated care to patients. The company operates under a value-based payment structure that rewards positive health outcomes for patients.
- Fiit receives $3.2M in funding for fitness coaching app.
- ActiveProtective draws $4.7M for fall-sensing wearable airbag
- Cigna acquires digital health company Brighter, a platform for finding appointments with dentists. Last year, Brighter closed a $21M Series D with General Catalyst
- Philips acquires VitalHealth to boost population health management strategy
- Venture fund Flagship Pioneering has raised $618M to invest in biotech and life sciences startups
