By Yuki Noguchi | NPR.org | October 8, 20197:18 AM ET Virtual reality — long touted as the next big thing in tech — hasn't taken off as a consumer product, but employers are embracing it as a more efficient and effective tool for on-the-job training. This year, Walmart is training more than 1 million employees using [...]
By Mackenzie Garrity | Becker's Hospital Review | October 8, 2019 Greeley-based University of Northern Colorado was granted $1 million from HHS to collaborate with Denver-based digital health company Cliexa to study technology used to identify high-risk adolescents. With the funding, the university will support a 700-person clinical trial. Patients will leverage Cliexa's risk screening tool, which [...]
By ARUNDHATI PARMAR | MedCity News | Oct 8, 2019, at 2:22 PM This is the fourth fund launched by Accelmed, a group of funds based in Israel and New York, which currently manages more than $300 million. Accelmed, a group of funds that invests in health tech companies, announced Monday that it is launching a [...]
By Andrea Park | Becker's Hospital Review | October 7, 2019 The global digital health market is expected to reach a valuation of more than $234 billion in 2023, up from 2019's estimated $147 billion, driven by the healthcare industry's ongoing transition toward a model of value-based care, per a new Frost & Sullivan report. The [...]
By Zoë LaRock | Business Insider | Oct 7, 2019, 10:55 AM Even though the digital health industry is steadily maturing, health tech companies might still have a long way to go when it comes to establishing themselves as viable partners for entrenched health firms. Business Insider Intelligence Forty-four percent of leaders working across the healthcare [...]
By Heather Landi, Fierce Healthcare | October 4, 2019 NEW YORK CITY—Uber is looking to get into pharmacy medication delivery. The prescription eyeglass company Warby Parker is moving into virtual eye exams and audio equipment maker Bose wants to help consumers get better sleep through hearing technology. "The field of play is [...]
