Rock Health and the Stanford Center for Digital Health have recently shared the findings from their sixth annual Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey. Amidst a national pandemic and the ensuing stay-at-home orders, consumer adoption rates grew significantly from 2019 to 2020—10+ percentage point increases—across live video telemedicine, wearable ownership, and digital health metric tracking. The 2020 survey data suggest that consumers more…
Earlier this week Jubel Health announced the launch of its app-based personal fertility guide. The platform was built together with leading reproductive doctors and other health experts as a one-stop-shop of resources to support women on their fertility journey. The newly launched Jubel app has been in public beta for a while, and features 24/7 chat for personalized information and insights, fireside…
UAE-based femtech startup Nabta Health has announced its expansion to Saudia Arabia later this year. The company offers personalised healthcare to women in emerging markets using a new model of hybrid healthcare. By combining the best of digital and traditional healthcare, the goal is to empower women to identify and manage non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in an accessible and affordable manner. “We have…
Digital Health care provider Nurx, known for birth control prescriptions, STI screenings and medications prescriptions, has now expanded into at-home acne care. While acne care may seem like a leap coming from a company that’s built its reputation (and base of over one million patients) mainly on reproductive health care, Nurx clinical team lead Nancy Shannon MD, PhD, says the company added acne…
Ovia Health, a digital family health solution, is joining the Digital Therapeutics Alliance (DTA), a global non-profit organization with the mission of advancing digital therapeutics into healthcare. Ovia is the first maternal and family health company to join the Alliance. Since 2012, Ovia Health has helped more than 15 million people successfully navigate their parenthood journeys and is on a mission to make a…
A recent survey conducted by Nuvo, the company behind INVU, an FDA-cleared, prescription-initiated, remote pregnancy monitoring platform, found that multiple factors have left moms-to-be searching for new remote pregnancy monitoring solutions. The survey, in partnership with Wakefield Reserach, examined the recent experiences of 500 new or expectant mothers and focused on the existing challenges of in-person prenatal care appointments, such as the…
In our “Starter Story” series we invite femtech founders to share their stories of how it all began. How did they come up with the idea? Where did they meet their cofounders and what was the hardest part of going from 0 to 1? In today’s Starter Story we get to share Emme’s founding story as told by co-founder Amanda French. Emme is…
Equip, a health tech company pioneering a program that virtually delivers evidence-based eating disorder treatment to families at home, today announced it has closed $13 million in Series A financing, bringing its total funds raised to date to $17 million. The Series A round was led by Optum Ventures, with participation from new investor .406 Ventures and existing investor F-Prime Capital, who…