Digital Health

The Food and Drug Administration has tapped former Oracle Senior Vice President Troy Tazbaz as its director of digital health.

The digital health market is constantly changing, with startups coming onto the scene and more established companies restructuring their strategies.

Precision oncology company Guardant Health has laid off about 130 employees, or 7 percent of its workforce, GenomeWeb reported.

Paradigm, a tech company that aims to integrate clinical trials more broadly into the healthcare system, launched Jan. 27 with a $203 million series A funding round co-led by venture capital firm General Catalyst.

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health released results from a three-month pilot partnership program with virtual family caregiving company eFamilyCare.

University of Chicago Medicine is partnering with Carrum Health, a digital health company that connects patients with centers of excellence, to bring breast cancer care to self-insured employers.

Digital health funding fell to $3.4 billion for the fourth quarter of 2022, hitting a five-year low, according to a Jan. 24 report from research and data company CB Insights.

University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center-Golisano Children’s Hospital partnered with digital health company Elemeno Health to launch an app for perioperative surgical staff.

Green Bay, Wis.-based Bellin Health is seeing an increase in patient self-scheduling since installing the Kyruus ProviderMatch platform in July 2022.

Healthcare lags other industries in its digital transformation, but as one transformation chief told Becker's, this isn't "ride-share."