Tech-enabled hospice startup Guaranteed is the latest startup to launch from stealth after raising a $6.5 million seed round. The company has raised $9.25 million in total and is prepared to transform the hospice space with tech-enabled services. Hospice care has become more attractive lately. The aging population means more individuals will require hospice care,…

My second-favorite holiday* is on November 1st: the start of open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act Marketplace. Why is it one of my favorite “holidays”? Because the government (taxpayers, really) will gift millions of qualified Americans affordable health insurance—a rarity in America. The ACA Marketplace has provided affordable health insurance to millions of Americans…

Apple plans to enter the health insurance industry by 2024, according to CCS Insights’ Chief Analyst Ben Wood. Many of you have followed the decade-long saga of big tech attempting to enter the healthcare space to compete with incumbents, only to fail. Healthcare verticals, like insurance, are tough to enter and disrupt. Apple certainly has…

Walmart launched the Walmart Healthcare Research Institute, aiming to increase community access to clinical trials. The clinical trials space has received more attention lately: CVS Health and Walgreens announced earlier this year that they’ve created new verticals focusing on clinical trials. All three companies are targeting the clinical trials space intending to make clinical trials…

The FDA granted Eli Lilly’s revolutionary anti-obesity drug called tirzepatide fast-track designation, expediting the drug’s arrival to market. This is big news for Eli Lilly and the medical community, given clinical trial data shows the drug is extraordinarily effective for weight loss and improvement in cardiometabolic health. I’ve been covering tirzepatide throughout the year (here…

Digital health funding reached a relative halt in the third quarter of 2022 with only $2.2 billion in funding raised across 125 deals. This is the lowest funding for digital health since the fourth quarter of 2019. If this funding trajectory continues into Q4, 2022 funding may barely reach half of 2021’s total funding. The…