Digital Health

Empiric Health raised $3 million in super seed financing from Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, the startup announced Nov. 29.

Analyte Health, a Chicago-based direct-to-consumer diagnostic testing provider, is building out its suite of services — a portfolio that's exclusively focused on sexually transmitted diseases since the company's launch in 2009.

While the federal government slashed the federal health insurance exchange's advertising budget by 90 percent for 2018 compared to the year prior, California's exchange is significantly investing in ads, according to Kaiser Health News.

Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth's Optum unit launched a $250 million investment fund to invest in healthcare-focused startups, Forbes reports.

UnitedHealthcare and a Qualcomm subsidiary integrated Samsung and Garmin wearable devices into UnitedHealthcare's wellness program.

At Becker's Hospital Review's 6th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable in Chicago on Nov. 14, Optum Managed Analytics general manager Sal Vannorman and Optum Advisory Services Vice President of Medical Informatics Derek Pederson discussed how analytics can help revolutionize a…

Today, many physicians have access to medical history, preference and risk information for each patient they examine. However, this data is often used to depersonalize, rather than humanize, healthcare, Kirsten Meisinger, MD, wrote in a Nov. 13 op-ed published on…

Two graduate students from the Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania co-founded NeuroFlow, a startup to help inform mental health treatment, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Uber is making efforts to help its contract workers sign up for health coverage under the ACA, according to Reuters.

Data science holds huge potential in healthcare, but many executives are unaware of the technology's many capabilities and applications.