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Xealth raises $24M to help doctors utilize digital health apps
By  Laura Lovett 02:08 pm September 21, 2021
This morning Xealth, a startup that aims to help doctors prescribe digital health apps, closed a $24 million Series B funding round.  This comes more than two years after the Providence St. Joseph Health spinoff closed an $11 million Series A funding round. As of today, the company boasts of $52.6 million in funding.  Advocate Aurora Enterprises led the round with participation from Banner Health...
Cerner's investment into Xealth brings digital health prescription tools to its EHR & patient portal
By  Dave Muoio 03:54 pm August 7, 2020
Digital health prescription platform Xealth and health IT supplier Cerner have announced plans to incorporate Xealth's technology into Cerner's EHR and patient portal. By doing so, clinicians and care teams will be able to order and deploy more than 30 digital health programs supported by the Providence-St. Joseph Health spin-off's platform. The focus of these digital offerings includes chronic...
Providence St. Joseph's taps video tool to help facilitate end of life discussions
By  Laura Lovett 02:14 pm June 9, 2020
Planning for the end of life can be an uncomfortable and often times overwhelming tasks – for both patients and providers.  “These are important yet hard things to talk about,” Dr. Matthew Gonzales, chief medical information officer at the Institute for Human Caring at Providence St. Joesph Health, said during a HIMSS20 Digital event. “They aren’t entirely the easiest thing to dig into and...
MyHeritage, BGI forming COVID-19 testing lab in Israel, AstraZeneca taps BrightInsight to support its digital ecosystem and more digital health deals
By  Dave Muoio 03:50 pm March 30, 2020
MyHeritage, a genealogy and health DNA testing company, has teamed up with the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) to establish a COVID-19 testing lab in its home country of Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported on Saturday. The facility is aiming to open its doors by April 9 with a 10,000-tests-per-day capacity, and hopes to scale up to 20,000 per day shortly after. “BGI will ship to Israel in the...
New mothers expect digital interactions with doctors, still a lot of confusion around term digital health
By  Laura Lovett 02:48 pm March 3, 2020
As digital becomes the new norm, mothers and expecting mothers are looking for new ways to connect to their healthcare providers, however, the term digital health is still far from a mainstream term, according to a recent Xealth report.  The report found that nearly half of new and pregnant patients expected to interact with their doctors digitally (47%). However, only 27% of those survey-takers...
Cleveland Clinic, Atrium Health MemorialCare add $3M to Xealth's Series A
By  Jonah Comstock 02:15 pm June 20, 2019
Providence St. Joseph health spinout Xealth, which aims to create a prescribing infrastructure for digital health apps, has raised $3 million in new funding, an add-on that brings its previously announced Series A up to $14 million and the company’s total funding to $22.5 million. The three new investors in the round are all health systems who will be using the app with their doctors and patients...
Digital health prescription platform Xealth raises $11M Series A
By  Dave Muoio 10:51 am March 27, 2019
Xealth, a startup that helps doctors to prescribe digital health apps, announced this morning that it has closed an $11 million in Series A funding round. Backers new to the startup include McKesson Ventures, Novartis, Philips and ResMed, with prior investors Threshold Ventures, Providence Ventures, UPMC and Medical College of Wisconsin Health Network affiliate Froedtert returning as well. WHAT...
HIV self-test app connects users to care, FDA proposes De Novo update, and more digital health news briefs
By  Dave Muoio 03:27 pm December 4, 2018
De Novo rule proposal published for review. The FDA has published a new proposal for revisions to the De Novo regulatory pathway for devices without a predicate. The rule, which is currently available for public comment, aims to provide additional structure, clarity and transparency to the process, and outlines how the agency processes and gauges submitted devices. “Our goal is to make the De...
How Providence St. Joseph Health is using tech to engage, empower patients
By  Jonah Comstock 04:32 pm October 23, 2017
Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, EVP and chief clinical officer at Renton, Washington-based Providence St. Joseph Health, took the stage today at the HIMSS Media Big Data and Healthcare Analytics Forum to discuss how her organization uses digital tools to engage and empower patients. “We stole our chief digital officer from Amazon,” Compton-Phillips said. “He’s the guy who pretty much led building the...
Providence-St. Joseph spinout Xealth gets $8.5M to help doctors prescribe apps
By  Jonah Comstock 03:27 pm June 19, 2017
Xealth, a startup that helps doctors to prescribe digital health apps, has raised $8.5 million in a round led by DFJ Venture Partners. Other investors in the round included hospital systems Providence St. Joseph Health, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Hennepin Healthcare System, and Froedtert Health. A spin-out from Providence St. Joseph Health's digital innovation group, Xealth...

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