Healthcare navigation and pharmacy benefits platform Rightway and hybrid fertility and reproductive care company Kindbody are partnering to offer employers family-building and reproductive healthcare benefits.
New York-based Kindbody offers virtual and in-person services, including contraception care, fertility testing, gynecological care, egg freezing, and virtual wellness and coaching services...
The Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act, initially introduced in the U.S. Senate in 2022 and reintroduced in March of this year, aims to amend the Social Security Act to provide Medicare and Medicaid coverage and reimbursement for prescription digital therapeutics.
Jennifer Mathieu, senior vice president of professional and government affairs at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (...
Employer-focused cancer startup AccessHope announced it is adding Johns Hopkins Medicine's Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Care Center to its network of National Cancer Institute-designated organizational partners.
AccessHope connects employers offering self-funded health plans and employees' treating physicians with cancer-focused expertise from NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers...
London-based multinational digital health firm Babylon has sold almost all of its U.K. assets to digital health company eMed Healthcare U.K., a subsidiary of U,S, company eMed, after announcing in early August that its deal to merge with Swiss tech firm MindMaze was canceled.
Babylon Healthcare Services Limited, the piece of Babylon purchased by eMed and the bulk of what remained of Babylon...
Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. Representative and founder of the Kennedy Forum, is a leading voice on mental health and addiction. During his 16 years in the U.S. House of Representatives serving Rhode Island's First Congressional District he coauthored and sponsored the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, which requires insurers to cover mental health and substance use disorders the...
Real-world data platform Atropos Health announced it appointed a life science advisory board and moved into the life sciences sector, offering AI innovations, data evaluation, evidence generation and analytics augmentation.
Atropos' app helps physicians access real-world evidence to guide clinical decisions and research.
The California-based company also offers its Green Button for clinical...
Digital health and technology are crucial in ensuring a more climate-friendly hospital design. The healthcare industry faces numerous challenges due to the growing demand for quality healthcare services and the need for sustainable and resilient infrastructure. The burden on healthcare systems is increasing, and the existing healthcare framework cannot accommodate this demand. The pandemic...
Telehealth and medical transportation company DocGo announced it is partnering with New York-based not-for-profit health insurer EmblemHealth to provide patients with in-home services, such as transitional care management, following discharge from the hospital.
Emblem and DocGo will work closely to offer New York and Connecticut-based patients access to A1C screenings, colorectal cancer...
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and exhibition organizer Informa Markets announced the pair had signed an agreement for Informa to take over management of the HIMSS Health Global Conference & Exhibition, with HIMSS continuing to oversee expert content and event programming.
HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition drew over 40,000 healthcare and technology...
