Clover is offering Medicare Advantage grocery benefits through a range of grocery retailers as well as grocery delivery through Walmart to address social determinants of health, Yahoo Finance reports.
Digital Health
Wearable health-tracking devices like Fitbit and Apple Watch may help detect early signs of COVID-19 infections, as well as provide better insights into patients' long-term recovery from the disease, according to a paper published July 7 in JAMA Network Open.
Payer startups including Orange, Calif.-based Alignment Healthcare, Minneapolis-based Bright Health, Nashville, Tenn.-based Clover Health and Waltham, Mass.-based Devoted Health are increasingly employing physicians and offering healthcare services as part of their business models, according to Business Insider.
Digital health startups raised $14.7 billion in the first six months of 2021. The sector has already surpassed the $14.6 billion it raised in all of 2020, according to a report released July 6 by Rock Health, a venture fund…
Springfield, Ill.-based Memorial Health System is launching an assessment tool to gauge race- and income-based health disparities for hospitals, according to The State Journal-Register.
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Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University and IBM Research unveiled a new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot July 1 that the two organizations developed to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.
Google updated its application programming interface June 30 so that developers from healthcare organizations and government agencies can create digital versions of COVID-19 vaccination or test records.
Recuro has acquired MyLegacy, a clinical decision-making support application, which was developed by the Cleveland Clinic Genomic Medicine Institute.
The first quarter of 2021 was digital health's most-funded quarter to date, and investors continued the trend in the second quarter by pledging high dollar amounts to technology-driven health startups.
While some states like New York and Hawaii have rolled out smartphone-based programs for digital proof of vaccination status, more states have banned the digital tools, according to a June 26 ABC News report.