Consumer

Gyre Renwick, vice president at Lyft, is leading the company’s healthcare team to develop partnerships and find solutions to address the major social determinant of health that impact people’s lives – getting to the doctor before an emergency.

The app offers 45-minute counseling sessions with trained (but unliscensed) mental health specialists for $35 per session. 

Solv Video Telemed allows patients booking an urgent care visit the option of immediate or scheduled video encounters, while providers can use the service to more easily manage visit volume. 

Published today in the Lancet, the investigation of 86 pediatric and adult Type 1 patients compared the partially automated system to a manual sensor-augmented pump therapy.

We spoke to Ultromics CEO Ross Upton and Ada Health Chief Medical Officer Dr Claire Novorol about the two start-ups' approaches to leveraging AI to improve patient outcomes and access to services. 

The 1,000-person survey from Binary Fountain also found that half of Americans have shared healthcare experiences online.

The National Health Service (NHS) in England is introducing a new app that will allow patients to access NHS services on their smartphones and tablets, to be gradually rolled out across the country starting from December this year.

The new product adds night-time alarms, making the low-cost 14-day CGM more useful.

Called GYFT Baby, the package includes prenatal vitamin shipments, an education app and a motion tracking wearable. 

Iomed Medical Solution CEO Javier de Oca is in the business of generating data specific databases for health systems and believes the time is now to see that data translate into better patient outcomes and sustainable systems for providers.