Heard at HLTH: Healthcare Executives Share New Products, Strategies, Outlook
Executives from health tech companies attending HLTH 2025 shared how they’re integrating AI and what they’re doing to address rising healthcare costs.
Executives from health tech companies attending HLTH 2025 shared how they’re integrating AI and what they’re doing to address rising healthcare costs.
In a landscape where complexity has long been the norm, the power of one lies not just in unification, but in intelligence and automation.
Solera Health's $40 million Series E round was co-led by Health Care Service Corporation and included participation from Adams Street, Cobalt Ventures, and Horizon Mutual Holdings, Inc.
Solera Health added Ciba Health, Digbi Health and Wondr Health to its HALO platform. The companies treat conditions like hypertension and diabetes.
Solera Health and Aon are collaborating to help employers manage point solution fatigue, engage members and measure ROI.
Solera Health has added virtual specialty care services to its Halo Platform. The new offering is in partnership with 9amHealth, Vori Health and Oshi Health.
Solera Health recently launched HALO, a platform that allows payers and employers to manage both Solera point solution partners and non-Solera point solutions in one place.
Solera Health recently launched a program that aims to help patients who are interested in GLP-1s gain access to lifestyle change support. It also provides educational materials on GLP-1s.
A new partnership between Horizon and Solera will initially focus on services for musculoskeletal conditions, stress, sleep and resilience, tobacco cessation and weight management. Employers who get their insurance through Horizon will be able to select which conditions its population needs care for and then employees will have access to a selection of health tech vendors for these conditions.
After finding success with a weight management program, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina expanded its employee wellness program developed by Solera Health to include mental health and musculoskeletal services.
"We realized that that the old way of doing things - which was identifying a single point solution and putting that out to members - wasn't going to work," said Bryce Williams, Blue Shield of California's vice president of lifestyle medicine.
The program, dubbed Project Link, is meant to bring together industry players across different markets and geographies to work on social issues and barriers to care like housing, healthy eating and transportation.
Solera Health CEO Brenda Schmidt said the company's differentiator is in payment system, which allows health plans to pay social services providers through same pathway that other healthcare providers are reimbursed.
The Thrive Local network is being enabled by New York-based Unite Us, which offers software that allows providers to refer out to social services, track outcomes and collaborate on care with community partners.