Tia raises $24M Series A; Building integrative hybrid clinical and virtual healthcare services for women
CMS expands Medicare Advantage telehealth rules to allow plans to include more specialists to meet network adequacy standards; Also allows ESRD patients to enroll in MA plans
Mount Sinai will use $860K FCC telehealth CARES grant to develop a mobile app for patients to report on outcomes
Mindstrong raises $100M Series C; Building a digital mental health platform for text and video-based therapy, catering to patients with serious mental illnesses
Telehealth startup Abridge is using NLP to automatically offer transcribed visit notes to patients and providers; UPMC currently offering service to patients
Hims & Hers add Spanish language primary care physicians to telehealth service; Targeting 15.1% of American Hispanics living without insurance coverage, offering $39 visits
Cigna adds Talkspace to list of covered telehealth offerings; 14M members with employer-sponsored insurance now have access to the mental health app
FCC has approved telehealth infrastructure grants amounting to $33M across 89 providers, but has only actually distributed funds to one provider
Tava Health raises $3M seed; Building a mental telehealth service by directly employing therapists and offering their services to employers
Omada Health raises $57M, uses $30M of it to acquire Physera, a startup focused on virtual physical therapy
Ro launches high-end prescription dermatology product line; Sold through both Rory and Roman brands, and offered as subscriptions starting at $25/month
BCBS of Tennessee makes expanded telehealth coverage policies permanent; Will now cover telehealth for in-network providers as regular visits
Premera Blue Cross launches lower premium PPO plan that requires members to access primary care via 98point6 telehealth app
Meru Health raises $8.1M Series A; Building digital mental health platform that provides programs and access to therapists for people with depression, burnout, and anxiety
ZocDoc to use Twilio video tech in new video consultation service; Twilio says healthcare usage of its service has increased 90% during pandemic
Doctor on Demand to start offering services to Medicare Part B FFS beneficiaries; Assuming telehealth regulations will remain loosened post-pandemic
During the pandemic remote cardiac monitoring tech is becoming increasingly important; Physicians and experts expect the trend to persist post-pandemic, and continue to include consumer smartwatches
Lucid Lane raises a $4M seed round; Building a telehealth platform for substance abuse and medication dependence disorders
Loosened telemedicine regulations have been a boon for streamlining delivery of addiction medicine, providing more comprehensive care
Carbon Health extends Series B with additional $26M raised; Virtual care startup using funds to grow headcount and expand testing during the pandemic
Analysis: Predicting the effects of the COVID crisis on virtual care, value-based care, supply chains, physical practice design, and health IT
Babylon Health partnering with Mount Sinai Health Partners to bring telemedicine app, AI assistant, and symptom checker to New York; UK company intends to grow to operate in all 50 states
CVS reports 600% surge in telehealth visits via MinuteClinic, 1,000% increase in prescription home delivery
Apple Heart Study recruited over 400,000 to monitor for AFib with Apple Watches, and detected 2,200 possible AFib events; Struggled with attrition as less than half who received alerts followed up with a physician
Doximity launches video call feature to extend abilities of Dialer app, which allows doctors to call patients with caller ID showing their office number; Averaging 1 million voice calls per day
Analysis: How Oak Street Health, an 80,000 patient value-based primary care center network, shifted to delivering 93% of visits remotely
DrChrono begins rolling out telehealth platform, starting with video chat and billing features for its EHR; Patient-facing services coming next month
Cleveland Clinic and Epic collaborated to create a COVID-19 home monitoring program based on Epic's MyChart; Now available for any organizations already using MyChart
Uber partners with Ro to offer COVID-19 screenings to drivers; Ro, already offering free screenings to the public, will create dedicated portal for Uber
Vida Health raises $25M to meet demand and grow their platform for remotely connecting practitioners with patients with chronic conditions; 50%+ user growth since March
Teladoc Q1 revenue up 41% YOY, forecasting 2020 revenue up 45-49% YOY; Projecting 8-9M visits in 2020
Medici raises $24M Series B; Building a WhatsApp-like asynchronous telehealth platform that allows patients to pay doctors inside the app
Google Health built a deep learning model to detect diabetic retinopathy from eye scans; It was 90% accurate, but the real-world trial was plagued by image quality & internet connectivity issues
Despite assurances from insurers and government, patients are still getting billed for COVID-19 related telehealth visits
New HealthJoy platform adds telehealth features, wait-times by provider; Usage is 2x normal during pandemic
Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot is being used at Brigham and Women's Hospital for remote triage; BD open-sourcing telemedicine adaptations to enable other robotics firms to replicate
Coronavirus crisis opens access to online opioid addiction treatment; providers now able to prescribe withdrawal drugs via telehealth
FCC approves second set of 5 COVID-19 telehealth program providers; Has distributed $6.94M of $200M available
VR telemedicine platform XRHealth raises $7 million; currently focused on muscular rehab, cognitive training, stress relief
Amwell launches new telehealth offering geared towards small, medium physician practices; allows providers to connect with existing patients
Analysis: Rapid telehealth adoption poses new challenges, could do more harm than good if not implemented properly
Virtual health care in the era of COVID-19 - A global view of telehealth adoption during the pandemic
