FDA prioritizes new digital health rules
Digital health was eager for more clarity and speed from the FDA, and the new FDA commissioner intends to satisfy. Plans include certifying company processes rather than products in order to streamline development, a possible third party certification program for low-risk products, and a long-awaited decision on how it plans to regulate clinical decision support tools that aid treatment and diagnosis. Read the full post.
Headlines
What Hospitals Can Learn From Airlines
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Should Doctors Play Along With The Uberization Of Healthcare?
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Baby Genome Sequencing For Sale In China
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The Smartphone Psychiatrist
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Where Microsoft, Google Failed With Health Records, Apple Tries Its Hand
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Amazon's Prescription Efforts Get Boost With Whole Foods Deal
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Cleveland Clinic Is Partnering With Oscar To Participate In Obamacare
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Rock Health in the News
Top 25 Tech Companies to Watch (Collective Health, Doctor on Demand)
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Why Doctors Hate Electronic Records—And What Could Change That
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Omada Raises $50M For Coaching Program, Expands Partnership With Cigna
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Funding
- Our portfolio company Omada Health raised $50M for their diabetes prevention program (Congrats team!)
- Alto Pharmacy (fka ScriptDash) raised $23M for its prescription delivery service
- ChartSpan raised $16M for its care coordination, patient engagement tools
- Mindstrong Health raised $14M for its neuropsychiatric treatment and diagnosis platform
- Paris and SF-based Rhythm debuted their sleep-tracking wearable with an $11M raise
- Seattle-based Xealth closed $8.5 to give docs ability to prescribe digital health tools
- Bay Labs launched with $2.5M to bring AI to ultrasounds