Jennifer Schneider and the rest of the Livongo team learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t work when building a digital health platform. That was before Livongo was acquired by Teladoc in a $18.5 billion deal in October 2020. “We had built a beautiful business and had a great vision, and the team […]
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Another startup company focused on home-based care has scored tens of millions of dollars in initial funding. On Monday, San Francisco-based Homeward announced its launch with a $20 million investment from General Catalyst. Homeward will be led by key executives behind Livongo, the digital health platform that was acquired by Teladoc in a $18.5 billion […]
Amazon’s Alexa now boasts HIPAA-compliant skills, a development that could create new opportunities for home-based care companies and the senior clients they serve. Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) launched Alexa’s secure medical skill kit Thursday. Through the new kit, select entities are allowed to build Alexa skills that securely send and receive protected patient health information. So […]