Particle Health, Complete Patient Records & ‘The Business’ of the Information Blocking Rule
By JESSICA DAMASSA Particle Health’s CEO Troy Bannister stops by to not only talk about the API platform company’s $25M Series B, but to also […]
By JESSICA DAMASSA Particle Health’s CEO Troy Bannister stops by to not only talk about the API platform company’s $25M Series B, but to also […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Just FIVE MONTHS after launch, rural health startup Homeward is proving its potential for growth with MORE funding – today […]
BY JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Home-based healthcare is the stuff of tomorrow – literally. Tomorrow Health just closed a $60M Series B to grow their […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Mental health digital therapeutics startup Happify Health has spent the past 5 years quietly ‘self-actualizing’ into a brand-new, tech platform […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH In the ‘point solution versus platform’ debate, mark another score for integration as Vida Health jumps into the musculoskeletal (MSK) […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH “Being an unpaid caregiver is the epicenter of Life Sucks Disease,” says Alexandra Drane, Co-Founder & CEO of ARCHANGELS, “but […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH What BIG thing is Avaneer Health building with its $50 million SEED round backed by not-just-investors-but-also-partners CVS Health, Aetna, Anthem, […]
BY JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Telehealth addiction treatment clinic Boulder Care just closed a $36 million Series B. I’ve got Founder & CEO Stephanie Strong […]
BY JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Healthcare needs to move into 2022 and get away from the one-size-fits-all approach that healthcare takes almost everywhere and, instead, […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH What’s Lee Shapiro’s take on the health tech market’s state-of-play? 7wireVenture’s Co-Founder and Managing Partner stops by to talk early-stage […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Otsuka Pharmaceuticals is expanding its mental health formulary – looking beyond traditional medications to psychedelics, and to the “intersection of […]
BY JESS DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Just as HHS extends the Covid-19 public health emergency waivers until July, we kick-off a brand-new monthly interview series about […]
BY JESS DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH What are the BIG questions a BIG healthcare company like CVS Health is trying to answer when it comes to […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH The BIG takeaway from ATA’s Annual Meeting is best bottom-lined by ATA’s big boss, CEO Ann Mond Johnson, in this […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH What does digital transformation look like at a global healthcare giant like Pfizer? Lidia Fonseca, Pfizer’s Chief Digital & Technology […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Big news coming out of Vida Health today as the chronic condition care startup announces that it will now be […]
BY JESS DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH With 61% of American adults reporting a negative behavior change – troubled sleep, changes in diet, increased alcohol consumption, more […]
BY JESS DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH More traction in Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) innovation, this time coming out of care-navigation-plus-PBM startup Rightway. CEO Jordan Feldman and […]
BY JESS DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Well Health is flying under-the-radar as a white-label patient communications platform that lets more than 400 healthcare providers text message […]
BY JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Matthew Holt categorized the triple-merger between Cricket Health, Fresenius Health Partners, and InterWell Health as a “take out merger” — […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Two of the most notable payer venture funds, Optum Ventures and Cigna Ventures, just headed up a $30 million dollar […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Turns out, the Clarify Health Solutions story is about a lot more than data and analytics these days. Value-based payments? […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Turns out, that if you’re lucky enough to catch Glen Tullman in an impromptu chat just off the main stage […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Sprinter Health bills itself as “the “DoorDash for lab draws” – sending nurses and phlebotomists out to patients’ homes to […]
By JESS DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Two experts in mental health care for the Medicaid market stop by to help us get smart on the challenges […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH It’s not difficult to get Seqster’s CEO Ardy Arianpour fired up, but to get to the details about his business […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Get the details behind the deal! Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) is acquiring Caravan Health for $220 million in cash and […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Thirty Madison and Nurx are merging and here’s what Steve Gutentag, CEO of Thirty Madison and the soon-to-be-combined entity, is […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Komodo Health has been catching lots of buzz lately thanks to a recently announced partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Thyme Care is a cancer navigation platform that is looking to use technology to make the kind of high-touch care […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Wheel’s CEO Michelle Davey says the white-label virtual care startup’s $150M Series C – led by notable health tech mega-funders […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH With a $75 million investment from Softbank last week, and the addition of former FDA Deputy Commissioner Dr. Anand Shah […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH In Milan, just outside the Frontiers Health conference, I caught up with Roberto Ascione, conference Chairman and CEO of Healthware […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF Health Vida Health’s new Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Patrick Carroll is bringing a very unique expertise to the chronic condition management […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Headspace Health CEO Russell Glass says the merger-of-equals between on-demand mental health care provider, Ginger, and consumer meditation app, Headspace, […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Insight on what’s ahead for the future of clinical research, real-world evidence, and personalized healthcare from none other than former […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Transcarent raises a whopping $200 million Series C funding round that values the year-ish old business at over $1.6 billion […]
BY JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Health tech infrastructure startup, Innovaccer, announced its $150M Series E and newly assigned $3.2B valuation today, and I’ve got CEO […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Digital mental health startups are leaning into the fact that mental health care is not “one-size-fits all” and, as a […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Straight out of stealth and launching today! Lyn Health is out to provide specific, personalized care for patients with three […]
By JESSICA DaMASSSA, WTF HEALTH Acorai is an early-stage medical device startup working with Bayer to improve the way we manage the world’s 65 million […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Healthcare navigator Accolade (NASDAQ:ACCD) is on the move. Not only are they now cruising in care delivery territory with two […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF Health To hear Vida Health’s CEO Stephanie Tilenius talk about what she’s hearing from payers, providers, and employers about at-risk value-based […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Is this a big surprise? Even during Covid, Pega’s annual 2,000-person Patient Engagement Survey shows that 63% of patients are […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Days after announcing their deal with Walmart, Transcarent’s Executive Chairman & CEO Glen Tullman and meet again (in-person!) to pick […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH The same day Walgreens announced its $5.2B investment in VillageMD to snag a majority stake in the growing primary care […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH There was lots of chatter at HLTH 2021 about the fact that healthcare AI unicorn, Olive, showcased its brand-bedecked touring […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Forget being pigeon-holed as a “femtech” company! VERY early-stage women’s health startup, Pollie, is taking an integrated care approach to […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF Health Bayer’s $98M co-development-plus-investment in One Drop from August 2020 has yielded its first new product: a highly-personalized, AI-powered digital program […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) has called their approach “Value-Based Care 2.0” and, today, they’ve received an important designation from CMS […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Not all who wander are lost: Nomad Health lands a $63M Series D round after a year of 5X revenue […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH People with Diabetes can get ready to celebrate: “The ‘Era of Lancets’ is over.” Precision nutrition startup, DayTwo, is scaling […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Just ONE-year in market, and Calibrate has already closed a $100M Series B co-led by Founders Fund and Tiger Global, […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH The thinking behind the merger-of-equals between on-demand mental health company, Ginger, and mindfulness and meditation company, Headspace, is revealed in […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Innovation in Medicaid is HAPPENING – and not only is it capable of creating better, less expensive healthcare for Medicaid […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH It’s interesting enough that Optum’s Vice President for Direct-to-Consumer is not only a serial digital health entrepreneur, but she’s also […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH From Bill Gates to Goldie Hawn, Dr. Fauci and Rochelle Walensky to Astronaut Scott Kelly, and magician Penn Jillette to […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH There’s been a steady drip of announcements coming out of One Drop in recent months about their data capabilities (28 […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH According to the team at YourCoach.Health, health coaching is “the ‘glue’ that’s connecting the $4-trillion wellness economy with the $8-trillion […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Digital health continues to gain a lot of attention from investors, so we’ve checked in with one to get some […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH SonderMind closes a $150M Series C funding round co-led by Drive Capital and Premji Invest, and we get CEO Mark […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH The “platform-ization” of chronic condition care continues among digital health companies and Nasdaq-traded Dario Health ($DRIO) has acquired TWO different […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Digital mental health unicorn Ginger has just launched ‘Ginger for Teens’ in an effort to help the 1-in-5 teens currently […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Stealthy telehealth startup Wheel just closed a $50M series B and CEO Michelle Davey is here to reveal the mystery […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Privia Health ($PRVA) went public a few weeks ago and the stock not only popped when it hit the market, […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Sharecare ($SHCR) starts trading on the NASDAQ tomorrow and CEO Jeff Arnold has come back to catch us up on […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH For those keeping score at home, Glen Tullman is scaling up Transcarent faster than he did Livongo. The startup just […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH “We have to look at telehealth as an operating system.” Amwell ($AMWL) President & CEO Roy Schoenberg has a way […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Jonathan Bush has “More Disruption Please-d” himself and is back at it with a new company, Zus (get it…like the […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Another virtual care company hits the New York Stock Exchange as UpHealth ($UPH) emerges from the combined merger of UpHealth […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH The Teladoc Health-Livongo merger continues to expand Teladoc Health’s virtual care capabilities — this time in mental health. Dr. Julia […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH You know all that “magic” that machine learning is meant to bring to seemingly lackluster healthcare data and our limited […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH It’s another mega-round for a digital health chronic condition management startup, as Vida Health closes its $110M Series D – […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Cigna is making digital mental health services available to its entire nationwide network of 14 million members, and it’s selected […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Sharecare, the population-health-slash-care-navigator of the stars (literally, celebrity doc Dr. Oz is a co-founder, and Oprah’s Harpo Productions, Sony Pictures […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Healthcare SPAC-trackers interested in placing bets on value-based primary care for the lucrative Medicare Advantage market will love hearing Cano […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA What’s the move for Crossover Health? Looking past the virtual-first primary care co’s $168M Series D, CEO Scott Shreeve gets grilled on […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH What’s better than being the CEO of one blazing-hot disruptive health tech company that’s raised $450M to build “the internet […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Despite nearly 900 employer clients (including big brands like Burger King, Kroger, and DoorDash), a net promoter score of 84, […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Digital mental health startup Ginger just closed a $100M funding round on the heels of its biggest growth year yet: […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH As if one consumer digital health company with an $18.5B exit wasn’t enough, Livongo founder Glen Tullman has decided to […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Oh Baby! Connected digital nursery startup, Owlet Baby Care, just announced their SPAC IPO and intention to take their infant […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Symptom checker startup Buoy Health’s $37.5M Series C caught a lot of attention among health tech market watchers because of […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH “Telehealth has a much bigger role to play than just carrying out transactions,” says Amwell’s President & CEO, Roy Schoenberg, […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Chronic disease prevention is often lumped into chronic disease management – but should it be? Aren’t there different nuances to […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Digital mental health startup Modern Health just closed a $74M Series D, bringing their funding total to $170M, and earning […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Arguably 2020’s hottest health tech startup, Olive (olive.ai) closed THREE funding rounds this year, totaling $450M and valuing the company […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Last December, Express Scripts — now a part of Evernorth — became the first PBM to go to market with […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Bayer G4A, the global life science company’s digital health innovation arm, held their splashy “Agents of Change” event last month […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Food-as-Medicine startup, Epicured, looks and acts a lot like the consumer meal delivery startups booming during this pandemic (think Freshly, […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH It’s not just eyeballs that Comcast NBCUniversal and Independence BlueCross’s joint venture, Quil, is after these days. Carina Edwards, Quil’s […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Lots of changes at Bayer G4A: a new investment thesis, new additions to their portfolio, a new Global Head of […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Potential digital health trend for 2021? Weight loss and weight management. Not only has obesity been an “epidemic” of its […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH When Accolade went public in July at a $1.2B valuation, the BIG question facing the health tech unicorn pre-dated the […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Looking for more proof that telehealth has truly become a global trend in healthcare delivery? Our “man-on-the-street” in Italy, Roberto […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Even though kids make up 20% of the total national patient population, investments in startups that use tech to improve […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH It’s the telehealth market reality check you’ve been waiting for! “Rogue” digital health consultant Dr. Lyle Berkowitz unpacks the numbers […]
Episode 23 of “The THCB Gang” will be live-streamed on Thursday, August 27th! Tune in below! Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) today are some of our […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH One Drop just landed a $98.7M deal with Bayer — and we got the details from CEO Jeff Dachis. The […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH From his vantage point at the helm of one of healthcare’s biggest IT infrastructure companies, Change Healthcare’s President & CEO, […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH “Next-gen” healthcare might just be getting its start in primary care. So says Crossover Health’s CEO, Scott Shreeve, who laughingly […]
Six competitor CEOs and one ex-CMO discuss the biggest-ever digital health merger by JESS DAMASSA & MATTHEW HOLT It was the news that stunned the […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH JUST before the Teladoc-Livongo merger was announced, I had a chance to catch up with Doctor on Demand’s CEO, Hill […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Even before Covid19, virtual care for chronic conditions was a hot and competitive area, with the heat turned up by […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH A startup PBM? Partnered up with Walmart to bring “everyday low prices” to prescription drug pricing? Is this too good […]
By JESSICA DaMASSA There are few better positioned to speculate on what’s next for telehealth than Roy Schoenberg, co-CEO & President, of Amwell. After 15 […]
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