Samsung launched its Galaxy Watch5 and Galaxy Watch5 product line with a focus on the wearable health features of the watches, according to reporting in The Business Standard.

The PineApp, Miami-based Baptist Health's newly built app, is trying to change the traditional trajectory and mindset of health and wellness from one of episodic care — care only when you need it — to a holistic, uninterrupted and ingrained part of a person's life.

Multidisciplinary firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has named Cynthia Bero a senior adviser at Manatt Health.

Reproductive telehealth company Wisp has rolled out telemedicine medical abortions in California, New York, Illinois and Colorado.

Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's Comprehensive Stroke Center created a digital platform aimed at ​​increasing support for patients who suffer major health events such as strokes.

Intel Capital pitched in $20 million to the series D financing round for digital health company Biofourmis.

Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health is partnering with digital health companies Gozio Health and Well Health to release new features for its mobile application. 

Digital health company Carrum Health is partnering with Winston-Salem, N.C.-based health system Novant Health to deliver bariatric and orthopedic care to Carrum members in North Carolina.

Management consulting group Bain and Co. is partnering with the life sciences company Trinity Life Sciences.

Intravenous vitamin chain the Dripbar's app has gone live on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. 

The healthcare industry is increasingly going digital, with artificial intelligence helping diagnose conditions and patients with wearable smart devices being cared for at home.

The digital mobile X-ray market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 7 percent through 2026, according to a new report from Future Market Insights.

As more health systems and hospitals across the country invest in digital health resources, initiatives have been launched in an attempt to ease all aspects of patient care.

Clinician decision-making software platform AvoMD has appointed Mark Clermont to the advisory board.

Data analytics company Health Catalyst has named Melissa Welch, MD, chief medical officer and Edward Sheen, MD, chief population health officer.

Reprosent, a cancer care mobile application that allows patients to record their symptoms, has won the Astellas Oncology Changing Cancer Care Prize and will receive a $100,000 grant.

Patient adherence company Caretrack Health has received a $2.5 million investment and plans to add up to 130 employees by the end of 2023.

Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine-Wharton Fund for Health has invested in Fabric Health and Stimulus.

Drugstore and insurance company CVS Health is looking to place a bid for home health company Signify Health, which is valued at $4.7 billion, according to Aug. 7 reporting in the Wall Street Journal.

Babylon, a digital health company that facilitates virtual visits, intends to let go of about 100 employees as it cuts costs by about $100 million, Bloomberg reported recently.