Digital Health

Former Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush has created Zus Health, a new digital health platform that lets developers create tools and applications using a shared data record, according to a June 17 news release. 

Walmart is launching a free digital wallet that people can use to store and share their health information, starting with the COVID-19 vaccine record, the retail giant announced June 16. 

Amazon released its COVID-19 test kit, which costs $40 and is compatible with Prime delivery.

Olive and Amend Health signed a partnership agreement as of April 2021 whereby Amend Health will work with innovators and health tech solutions designers that can integrate their solutions into the Olive Helps platform.

Transcarent, a digital health platform for self-insured employers founded by former Livongo CEO Glen Tullman, recently secured a $58 million investment as part of its latest funding round. 

Washington, D.C.-based Children's National Hospital and Cerner are launching a digital health innovation accelerator as part of the organizations' pediatric health IT institute, according to a June 11 news release. 

Amazon launched a service for hospitals that aggregates information into a data lake and standardizes it with machine learning. Now, HealthLake can offer patient outcome predictions, like mortality, based on stored data, according to a June 10 blog post by…

Health information management company Ciox Health and real-world health data company Datavant signed a $7 billion merger agreement June 9.

The State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse completed a yearlong project to test the use of drones in making medical deliveries, according to a June 7 Government Technology report. 

Mount Sinai Innovation Partners, the New York City-based health system's commercialization engine, launched Elementa Labs, a virtual incubator program to foster the growth of digital health startups.