Digital Health

In rural New Mexico, where many patients must travel 250 miles or more for care, clinicians in remote areas are relying on a new technology that bridges the gap between patients and specialists.

The CDC has selected HealthVerity to develop an interoperable dataset for COVID-19 research that will be used in research, decision-making and public health objectives.

East Lansing, Mich.-based MSU Health Care teamed up with Higi, a consumer health engagement platform that offers "smart" health stations at retail locations, to provide patients remote monitoring services across Michigan, according to an Oct. 5 news release. 

DeepMind, Google's artificial intelligence startup, has turned a profit for the first time since its inception in 2010, according to an Oct. 5 CNBC report.

Several hospital and payer executives have left their roles to join digital health companies focused on virtual care and digital transformation since September.

Digital health startups raised $21.3 billion in the first three quarters of 2021, marking the sector's three highest-funded quarters ever, according to a report released Oct. 4 by Rock Health, a venture fund dedicated to digital health.

Graphite Health, a nonprofit focusing on healthcare interoperability challenges, was launched Oct. 5 by Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, St. Louis-based SSM Health and Albuquerque, N.M.-based Presbyterian Healthcare Services.

The National Institutes of Health's All of Us precision medicine research program uploaded medical data from about 215,000 participants.

Employees report spending about five hours each week hunting for fragmented information across a sea of apps meant to improve productivity, according to a recent report by Ithaca, N.Y.-based Cornell University and Qatalog.

A new partnership among Michigan Medicine, St. Joseph Mercy Health System — both based in Ann Arbor — and Lansing-based Physicians Health Plan is expanding Medicare Advantage options in two Michigan counties.