Obesity care company knownwell acquired one of its competitors this week, just six months after announcing its $20 million Series A funding round.
Boston-based Knownwell, which provides hybrid primary care and metabolic health treatment, bought…
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Direct-to-consumer virtual care company Hims & Hers is the latest digital health company to announce it will add GLP-1 medications to its offerings to assist users with weight loss management. The San Francisco-based company, which…
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New Jersey-based nutritional supplements supplier The Vitamin Shoppe announced its launching of Whole Health Rx, a telehealth service that will connect users with providers to help them access GLP-1 medications for weight management. GLP-1s, or…
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This series of articles has covered the ways that digital technologies contribute to weight loss. To round out the series, this final article covers general topics applying to the field.
Maintaining Success
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What You Should Know:
– WeightWatchers (NASDAQ: WW), (“WeightWatchers,” “WW,” or the “Company”) today announced that WeightWatchers for Business is partnering with Personify Health (formerly Virgin Pulse) to support employers looking to provide weight health care…
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This article is part of a series on today’s philosophies regarding weight change and how digital interventions can help. In this article, we’ll look at the contribution of tracking. The article looks at standards,…
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Internet-based tracking and coaching are being employed wherever health becomes a matter of lifestyle. Technologies can reach into every detail of a patient’s life: how to eat when they visit a buffet, where’s a…
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The first article in this series laid out what we know about body weight and obesity today. The rest of the Lean Digital series will look at some contributions that digital technologies are making…
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Is anyone not obsessed with weight? The health care field certainly is. Researchers have found ties between high body weight and an oversized list of unhealthy conditions. Payers have invested enormous amounts of money…
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What You Should Know:
– Blue Shield of California is expanding its popular digital health platform, Wellvolution, to offer comprehensive support for members experiencing musculoskeletal (MSK) issues.
– The expansion adds three new programs – SworkIt,…
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