Omada Health
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Consumer / Employer, Health Tech
Omada Launches Program To Support Patients on GLP-1s
Omada’s new program provides coaching, peer support and educational materials to patients struggling with chronic obesity and taking GLP-1s. The company chose not to prescribe the weight loss drugs itself.
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Medcity Pivot Podcast: Chronic Disease Management With an Interventional Cardiologist
Steve Driver is an interventional cardiologist as well as medical director of digital therapeutics at Advocate Aurora Health, which last year merged with Atrium Health. In this episode, he talked about a pilot involving Omada Health targeting a prediabetes population, among other things.
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Payer’s Place: Dr. Anil Singh
Dr. Anil Singh shares his insights into the strategies employed by the organization to identify the most effective digital solutions for their members.
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Why Payers and Employers Are Still Doubtful That Virtual Care Will Have a Revolutionary Impact
Insurers and employers are optimistic about the possibilities of virtual care, but they’re not very enthusiastic about the care modality’s larger influence on the healthcare industry, according to a recent report. Just 29% of employers and 34% of payers and benefits consultants said that virtual care will drastically change the way healthcare is provided and outcomes are achieved.
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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.
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Health IT, Health Tech, Policy
After building interoperability roadmap, Omada’s chief privacy officer sees it come into place
Omada’s chief privacy and regulatory officer shared how she set the stage for new interoperability rules while working at the ONC, and how digital health companies should navigate them.
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Newly-minted VC and ex-journalist Chrissy Farr makes some health tech predictions
CNBC’s healthcare reporter has left the world of journalism behind to become a venture capitalist at OMERS Ventures. In an interview, she makes some healthcare predictions about 2021 and beyond.
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Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done?
The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. A validated program that can effectively help people manage their disease is invaluable, especially at a time when in-person physician visits are unavailable.
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Omada Health acquires remote physical therapy company
Omada Health acquired Physera Health, a company that offers telehealth physical therapy appointments. The deal would add another digital health platform to Omada’s toolbox, which includes solutions for diabetes, hypertension and behavioral health.
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Employee Benefits, Health Tech, Telemedicine
Covid-19 worries cause companies to seek mental health tools
With worries over health and the economy affecting most employees, companies are looking for ways to roll out more mental health tools. In turn, many digital health startups have found new clients.
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Discover the Next-Gen Platform for Integrated Collaborative Care
Beyond EHRs and digital front doors, reducing the gaps in patient care journeys.
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Is an Omada Health IPO inevitable?
The markets may be battered, the economy shaken by Covid-19 concerns, but that didn’t prevent a discussion with a top digital health CEO about the attractiveness of an IPO.
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Chronic disease management company Livongo officially files for IPO
The company, which will be listed on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol “LVGO,” offers tech-enabled solutions that help to monitor and manage people with chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension and behavioral health issues.
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Startups, Health Services, Health Tech
Omada Health raises $73M Series D led by Wellington Management Company
The round also included participation from previous investors including Cigna Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Kaiser Permanente, Sanofi Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners, reportedly values the company at $600 million.
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Startups, Devices & Diagnostics, Patient Engagement
Omada Health adds connected blood pressure and blood sugar monitors to platform
The new devices are part and parcel with the programs launched by the company last year to help support the treatment of patients with hypertension and Type 2 diabetes.
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San Francisco mental health startup Big Health expands into anxiety
The startup previously developed the Sleepio application, which is targeted at insomnia, and is offered to around 12 million users through partnerships with payers and employers like Boston Medical Center, Comcast and the NHS.
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Omada Health launches mental health programs using shuttered startup’s tech
The company has signed a perpetual licencing deal for the software, curriculum and content of Lantern, which built digital therapeutics for mental health conditions before shutting down operations last year.