Digital Health

GoodRx, an online platform that offers coupons for discounts on prescription drugs, is teaming up with DoorDash to offer the food ordering and delivery platform's network of drivers access to its prescription savings program and telehealth services, the companies said…

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. 

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.

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.