UnitedHealthcare’s new virtual-first health plan is one of many we expect from insurers in the year ahead: The nation’s largest insurer rolled out a virtual-first health plan that touts greater access to care at lower costs—key reasons why other insurers will follow suit.

We unpack how VillageMD’s aggressive expansion plans and physician-led clinics could spell trouble for retail clinic rivals Walmart and CVS.

Walmart's partnership with digital health benefits startup Transcarent could elevate Walmart’s healthcare play and bring it head to head with the likes of Amazon and CVS.

Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, and 11 other health systems created a coalition to advocate for telehealth reimbursement and advance home health programs—key to sustaining home healthcare’s long-term growth

Its acquisition of remote patient monitoring firm Current Health signals Best Buy is pressing the gas to make a bigger name for itself in healthcare.

VR’s potential in digital therapeutics is muted thanks to barriers like cost and unclear efficacy: On the back of VR DTx startup MindMaze’s $125M, we detail the operational barriers stymieing it and its peers from making a wide scale impact in healthcare anytime soon.

Carbon Health paves a path toward better chronic care management with hybrid virtual care model: The primary care disruptor remote patient monitoring firm Alertive Healthcare to combine in-person and virtual care—we unpack why its peers are headed in the same direction.

Heightened regulatory scrutiny led to fewer SPAC deals after an IPO frenzy this year, per Rock Health—we unpack why digital health startups won’t abandon the SPAC route anytime soon.

Despite a surge in telehealth use over the past year, consumers still cite barriers like lack of information about their providers as pain points with telehealth vendors.

Microsoft’s tie-up with Truveta could help it plant deeper roots in healthcare: Big Tech companies have had a hard time penetrating healthcare due to a lack of trust, but exclusive access to Truveta’s database backed by 17 prominent health systems could change that for Microsoft.

Walmart picks Epic to fuel its healthcare ambitions: We explore why Walmart’s recent telehealth expansion could have influenced its decision and how Epic opens the retailer up to more traditional healthcare providers.

Is AI-powered cancer diagnostics mainstreaming? A Memorial Sloan Kettering spinout got the FDA nod for its cancer-detecting AI tool, and NYU Langone’s study results boast the efficacy of a similar tool—more fuel for healthcare stakeholders investing in AI for cancer diagnostics.

Apple is letting users show proof of vaccine through their Apple Wallet—an app they’re already spending more time in thanks to the pandemic.