Health and Wellness

Pharmacist interacting online
By  Anthony Vecchione 03:38 pm May 2, 2025
Serve You Rx, a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), is collaborating with Amazon Pharmacy to offer home delivery services for maintenance medication to its members. Serve You Rx members will have access to online transactions; transparent, upfront pricing; automatic refill options; 24/7 access to clinical pharmacists; customer care support; and free same-day home delivery of prescriptions in some...
Smart phone and smart watch
By  Anthony Vecchione 11:43 am May 2, 2025
The Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) announced it is partnering with Alcohol and Drug Services (ADS), Duke University, Google Fitbit, Morse Clinics, North Carolina Central University, Ōura, ProofPilot, Triangle CERSI and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). The partnership aims to use data collected from consumer wearables to lower opioid use disorder (OUD) fatalities by creating...
Nurse consulting with patient
By  Anthony Vecchione 05:15 pm May 1, 2025
Denmark-based Teton, a company that offers an AI companion to help nurses monitor patients and optimize workflow, announced it created a real-time, live 3D reconstruction of a hospital room using Gefion, Denmark's national supercomputer. The aim is to help nurses recognize risks early, reduce paperwork and improve patient care. Operated by the Danish Center for AI Innovation, Gefion is built on...
Young person communicating with a cell phone
By  Anthony Vecchione 10:56 am May 1, 2025
Virtual teletherapy company Talkspace is teaming up with online digital safety platform Bark Technologies to offer Talkspace's mental health offering free of charge to Bark phone and Bark app users.   Bark's content monitoring platform aims to help families recognize potential dangers in children's online activities. It provides mental health support by connecting children with therapists via...
Person interacting with a healthcare professional via tablet
By  Anthony Vecchione 04:08 pm April 30, 2025
  Editor's note: This article has been updated to include Teladoc's first quarter 2025 earning results. New York-based virtual care company Teladoc Health announced it acquired mental health platform UpLift in a deal worth $30 million.  The acquisition reinforces Teladoc's game plan to increase its leadership position in virtual mental health and the ability for consumers served by the company's...
Healthcare professional looking at a PC screen
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:21 pm April 30, 2025
Healthcare software company Commure has entered into a strategic partnership with virtual healthcare provider HealthTap to combine its EHR integrations, AI-enabled tools and care coordination abilities with HealthTap’s clinician network and virtual care delivery services. The companies say the alliance will allow health systems and other practices to provide expanded services, such as virtual...
Three surgeons operating on a patient
By  Adam Ang 06:40 am April 29, 2025
A large language model-powered AI assistant developed in Hong Kong has demonstrated high accuracy in thyroid cancer staging and risk classification. A team of researchers from the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), the InnoHK Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine conducted the study which built what...
Healthcare professional two people looking at data on a tablet
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:10 pm April 28, 2025
Oncology-focused social media platform Belong.Life has announced a strategic partnership with AI-enabled patient engagement company Equiva, in which Belong's conversational AI offerings will be integrated into Equiva's platform.  Belong's conversational AI mentors include Dave, a cancer care focused AI, and Fred, a mentor for sustainable weight loss, better health and lifestyle enhancement....
Picture of vital signs monitor
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:51 pm April 25, 2025
ECG diagnostics software platform AccurKardia and cardiac medical technology company HeartBeam are joining forces to make AccurKardia's ECG analysis software available on HeartBeam's devices.  HeartBeam's cable-free, 12-lead ECG system captures electrical signals from the heart from three directions to assess arrhythmias.  The platform is designed for portable devices so physicians can identify...
Man sitting on court building steps
By  Anthony Vecchione 01:29 pm April 25, 2025
Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical behemoth Eli Lilly has filed lawsuits against four compounders claiming that they sold unapproved products that contain tirzepatide, a key ingredient in the company's weight-loss and diabetes drugs, including top-seller Mounjaro. The lawsuits against Mochi Health, Fella Health and Delilah, and Henry Meds were filed in the U.S. District Court Northern District of...