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As more competitors enter an already oversupplied telehealth market, gaining consumer loyalty will be even harder, especially when competing against brands like Walmart and Amazon.
Also: Vocal biomarker company Kintsugi raises $20 million, VR startup XRHealth scoops up $10 million and Gesund.ai emerges from stealth with $2 million.
Also, Northern Ireland partners with Sectra to digitise pathology.
Germany’s Bayer has launched Saudi Arabia’s first “digital hub” to improve management of pulmonary hypertension (PH), it has announced.
Healthy.io, a healthtech venture that already has offices in Israel, the UK, and the US, is expanding operations across MENA via a new partnership with the UAE’s Seed Group.
Also: Patricia Baran joins personal ECG company AliveCor, while SDOH analytics platform Socially Determined and virtual surgery startup Proximie both add two new members to their executive teams.
Also, HCA Healthcare UK opens £26M specialist oncology unit at UCLH.
It features a remote patient monitoring system that allows doctors to track multiple patients in a single dashboard.
The connected fitness company will also stop developing a manufacturing site and cut its warehousing and logistics operations.
German digital health company Temedica aims to provide new healthcare insights from wearables and apps.