Digital Health

As they continue their push into healthcare, retail and tech companies have introduced a slew of consumer-centric health products into the market. Below, six hospital executives talks about some of their favorite products and why they might recommend them to…

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.