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Flare Capital's Alexandra Mullin and Ian Chiang outline COVID-19's impact on the worsening opioid crisis and how the digital opioid use disorder space is likely to develop over the coming years.

The $31 million purchase will add new capabilities to DarioHealth's condition management and behavior change platform.

The startup's app prices care using cash rates, while letting its members choose their preferred care by comparing the costs of their local providers.

Also: Cleo names three new leadership positions. 

Also: NIH moves forward with physIQ's COVID digital biomarkers; Tyto Care adds pulse oximeter.

This special collection, which will be updated throughout the month, looks at what's being done to ease the provider burden.

Former Propeller Health COO and CCO Chris Hogg discusses the recent embrace of virtual care technologies and how overcoming geographic limitations could lead to a shakeup among incumbent organizations resistant to change.

Also: Papa expands its services to all 50 states. Guided audio walks may be coming to Apple Watch.

Dogged by months of personnel departures, Haven announced today that it will be shutting down its operations by the end of February.

Through all of this year’s tumultuous ups and downs, one trend that has remained unstoppable – and has even accelerated – is the healthcare sector’s adoption of technology.