Priority Health Teams Up with Virta Health for Diabetes, Weight Loss Support
Priority Health has partnered with Virta Health to offer a suite of diabetes and weight management solutions to its employer clients.
Blue Shield of California Adds Virta Health to Network for Diabetes Care
Virta is available this month to all Blue Shield of California members enrolled in preferred provider organization plans for individual and family, fully insured, self funded and Medicare Advantage. The payer has been working with Virta since 2019 when the digital health company joined Blue Shield of California’s Wellvolution, a platform of digital lifestyle apps.
What Are Healthcare Organizations Getting Wrong about Email Security?
A new report by Paubox calls for healthcare IT leaders to dispose of outdated assumptions about email security and address the challenges of evolving cybersecurity threats.
Omada Health raises $192M in Series E funding and Verily’s Onduo snags a payer partner
Omada got funds from two new investors - Fidelity Management & Research Company and aMoon as well as existing ones. Verily's Onduo is bringing its virtual diabetes management platform to an integrated care delivery and health plan that has 6 million members in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, and New York.
Blue Shield of California launches marketplace with a new approach to wellness
"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.
Digital health leader Derek Newell joins Virta Health as Head of Commercial
Prior to founding health benefits platform Jiff (which was acquired by Castlight in 2017), Newell worked for years in the remote care monitoring and chronic disease management space.
Rock Health: Digital health investing has already surpassed record-breaking 2017
In 2018 alone, ten companies have inked mega-deals of more than $100 million including Livongo, 23andMe and American Well.
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Telehealth startup that sees a way to cure Type 2 diabetes closes $45M Series B round
Virta added new investors with the Series B round, including Founders Fund and Playground Global.
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Virta Health's approach is designed to help patients lower their hemoglobin A1c levels and reduce or eliminate prescription medications. The goal is to reverse the effects of Type 2 diabetes, and cure it.