Venture capitalists are paying more attention to mental health. Venture investment in mental health startups has nearly quadrupled since 2014, thanks in part to a 2008 federal law that required health insurers to treat mental health equally to other kinds of health care. In 2017, VCs invested...
Digital Health Summit, produced by Living in Digital Times, convenes one of the broadest spectrum of health care and technology audiences in the world. The Summit features innovations and advancements in genomics, diagnostics, wearables, telehealth and more in the mobile health market. This is a...
Panel discussion focused on how the field of HCUX is helping to shape new healthcare experiences. About this Event Healthcare is one of the biggest industries in the US—it represents nearly 20% of the US economy—and, until recently, change has come slowly, primarily through regulation. Pushed by...
From pole-dancing robots (yes, really) to smart fridges, this year’s CES was chock-full of technology. Even on the healthcare front, there was far too much for one reporter to check out over the course of two days. Despite the overwhelming amount of booths and presentations, a...
At long last, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IThas named a new chief privacy officer. The post has been vacant since Deven McGraw left the acting chief privacy officer post in October, and some in the industry speculated the Trump administration would not...
Day two of the Digital Health Summit at CES kicked off with a discussion not on the latest technology, but on the government, policy and the shifting healthcare ecosystem. Executives from three digital health companies — CareMore, AbleTo and Seniorlink — voiced their thoughts on the less techy side of the coin. To...
Meet the Transformers in Digital Health The ACA ushered in the era of transformation. Meet the CEOs of the companies that are not only surviving, but thriving.As federal policy drives the industry toward value-based care and capitated payments, a few companies have embraced these changes head-on.This...
BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners (BCBSVP) is a corporate venture fund program to which thirty-four BCBS entities have committed over $550 million across three Funds. The Funds invest in promising emerging companies of strategic relevance to Blue Cross and/or Blue Shield Plans and provide access to its...
PANEL: Transforming Traditional Medicine with Digital Therapeutics Digital therapeutics is making evidence-based waves in health care. An increasing number of companies are developing on-demand services and apps for patients to use in lieu of medications and traditional therapies, and it’s not just convenient, it’s saving money...
This was an impressive year for digital health investment. In total, MobiHealthNews covered 224 companies’ funding announcements constituting just over $5 billion in investments — roughly twice the amount we saw last year. Fifty-two of these funding announcements were in the first quarter of the year...
