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| 16.09.2025 | FDA takes aim at Hims and other telehealth services in drug advertising crackdown | Please subscribe to IBJ to decode this article.
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| 25.07.2025 | Heritage Group Closes Fourth Fund at $370M | Heritage Group, a Nashville, TN-based healthcare-focused private equity firm, closed its Heritage Healthcare Innovation Fund IV, at over $370M.
The firm is backed by healthcare organizations, including major health systems operating more th... |
| 24.07.2025 | Heritage Group Closes on $370 Million Fourth Fund | NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 24, 2025–
Heritage Group, a healthcare-focused private equity firm, today announced the final closing of Heritage Healthcare Innovation Fund IV (“Fund IV” or the “Fund”) at over $370 million, marking an... |
| 10.02.2025 | Transformative healthcare: The virtual shift | - |
| 13.03.2024 | Telemedicine Market Set for Exceptional Growth, Projected at US$ 317.59 Billion by 2030 | - |
| 18.10.2023 | Heard at HLTH: Healthcare Execs Share Perspectives on AI, Virtual Health and Value-based Care | At the HLTH 2023 event earlier this month, executives from some of the biggest names in health tech shared what they are doing to address some of the painpoints in healthcare with members of the MedCity News editorial team.
Dan Shur, chief ... |
| 28.12.2021 | Some of the biggest healthcare mergers and acquisitions of 2021 | They include deals from Microsoft, Humana, Optum, Intermountain, Oracle, and One Medical
After a hot 2020 in healthcare mergers and acquisitions, 2021 came out of the gate swinging, with over 30 new deals being announced in just the first t... |
| 11.08.2021 | Will the doctor-patient relationship survive as primary care gets distrupted? | Most companies still allow patients to develop long-term relationships with a primary care physician
While there are plenty of new startups emerging to disrupt primary care, the idea is still pretty new. In fact, many of these companies hav... |
| 12.07.2021 | Startups and newcomers disrupting primary care | Vator and UCSF will be holding an event in November called "Primary Care and the New Medical QB"
Primary care physicians are the gateway for people to access their care; no matter what the issue, a patient is most likely to see th... |
| 24.06.2021 | New Data: MDLIVE Reports Virtual Primary Care Closes Critical Gaps in Care Among Disengaged Patients, Chronic Disease Sufferers | |
| 25.05.2021 | MDLIVE Launches Expanded Service for Women to Provide New Oral Contraceptive Prescriptions via Telehealth | |
| 08.05.2021 | The 14 best telemedicine services for check-ups, urgent care, mental health care, and more | Reviews Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.
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| 26.04.2021 | Accolade scoops up telehealth firm PlushCare in a $450M deal | Digital health benefits platform Accolade announced plans to scoop up telehealth company PlushCare in a deal worth up to $450 million. Accolade will offer PlushCare’s virtual primary care and mental health care services directly to its memb... |
| 26.02.2021 | MDLive, South Florida’s homegrown telehealth unicorn, to be acquired by Cigna | Facebook
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Another big exit for a South Florida tech company: Cigna Corp. has agreed to acquire telehealth giant MDLive.
MDLive, headquartered in Miramar, offers virtual healthcare to more than 60 million people in al... |
| 26.02.2021 | Cigna to purchase long-standing partner MDLive | Only two months into 2021 and the health insurance arena is buzzing with activity.
The latest in a string of big moves is Cigna’s plans to purchase telehealth company Miramar, Florida-based MDLive through its health services portfolio Evern... |
| 28.01.2021 | New Research Shows Financial And Emotional Costs Of Taking A Sick Day Surging Among U.S. Workers | |
| 14.09.2020 | MDLive raises $75M in equity and debt to expand its telehealth platform | This is the second round of funding that the company has raised in less than two months
As telemedicine usage exploded thanks to COVID, so did investments in the space: there was $788 million invested in Q1, more than three times the $220 m... |
| 14.09.2020 | MDLIVE Receives $75m in Equity and Debt | MDLIVE Inc., a Miramar, Florida-based telehealth company offering virtual healthcare services in all 50 states, closed a $50m crossover equity investment from Sixth Street Growth, the growth investing arm of Sixth Street.
Sixth Street joine... |
| 13.08.2020 | Five success factors for behavioral health startups | Courtney Chow Contributor
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| 07.08.2020 | 15 Covid-19 forecasts healthcare leaders must get right | The pandemic forced healthcare systems to the epidemic frontlines. Hospitals scrambled to protect their staff, add ICU beds, secure PPE, take care of Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 patients, shift to virtual visits and reassign staff. The infect... |
| 09.07.2020 | At Invent Health: with COVID still surging, how are we preparing? | Cases are rising, even as death rates are lowering, so how do we prevent it from getting worse?
(Join us at our Becoming Us group therapy sessions, brought to you by BetterHelp, starting on July 9 (get tickets here!) and our Healthcare in P... |
| 08.07.2020 | With healthcare going virtual, what's working now? | Carbon Health, Element Science, MDLIVE and El Camino Health at Invent Health
(Join us at our Becoming Us group therapy sessions, brought to you by BetterHelp, starting on July 9 (get tickets here!) and our Healthcare in Politics salon on Se... |
| 03.07.2020 | Future of virtual care conference July 1 podcast | Amwell, MDLive, Element Science, Carbon Health, AliveCor, El Camino, ATA, GSR Ventures
Vator · July 1, 2020 - Invent Health Virtual Event - Future of Virtual Care
This week we had the Future of Virtual Care main event. In the first session,... |
| 18.06.2020 | Element Science, GSR Ventures, MDLIVE at Future of Virtual Care | Executives and investors to discuss how we're ramping up virtual care
On July 1, Vator, along with HP, will be holding the Future of Virtual Care event as part of the Invent Health series.
The #inventhealth salons are quarterly "intima... |
| 29.05.2019 | Mental Health App Raises $50 Million for Expansion
Mental Health App Raises $50 Million for Expansion | (Bloomberg) -- A startup whose app connects people with mental health clinicians for counseling through text messages and video chats raised $50 million and forged ties with the biggest U.S. health insurer, a sign that the market for delive... |
| 22.01.2019 | Florida's Ten Biggest Venture Capital Deals in 2018 | With 2018 now distant in the rearview mirror, venture capital numbers for the year have started to trickle in and the dominant narrative, while assessing the year in VC, is that there's more money than ever, despite fewer deals.
In the Unit... |
| 01.08.2018 | Cigna, HCSC and others invest $50M in telehealth company MDLive | Patients can use the Sunrise, Florida-based company’s service to get virtual visits with physicians, counselors, psychiatrists and dermatologists.
Berner noted that MDLive is also scaling its business by adding solutions like Sophie, an art... |
| 01.08.2018 | Virtual Health Platform Mdlive Closes $50M Financing | Mdlive Inc., a Sunrise, Fla.-based telehealth platform focused on delivering multi-specialty virtual access to care, closed a $50m growth investment.
The round was led by Health Velocity Capital and existing investors Cigna Corporation and ... |
| 08.11.2017 | Two telehealth companies are expanding their capabilities in different ways | While using SnapMD’s platform, patients can click on a flag icon and select Spanish as their language of choice.
“SnapMD built the VCM platform to deliver all the features and functions needed for a true point-of-care solution,” SnapMD CEO ... |
| 28.06.2017 | One Delaware doc on telemedicine in the First State: ‘The future is now’ | I first used telemedicine in August 2014 when I performed a surgery on a 17-year-old male who lived about 90 miles from our hospital.
A week later, I learned he was having trouble adjusting his post-operative brace. His father asked if I co... |
| 06.06.2017 | Plaintiff voluntarily dismisses patient privacy suit against MDLive (updated) | Sunrise, Florida-based MDLive unveiled yesterday that plaintiff Joan Richards voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit on June 2. The telehealth company said it did not pay a settlement.
In a statement, MDLive CEO Scott Decker commented on the dis... |
| 08.05.2017 | MDLive seeks dismissal of class-action lawsuit | Plaintiff Joan Richards filed the class-action lawsuit in Florida on April 18. It alleges MDLive takes screenshots during the first 15 minutes patients use the app, during which they are prompted to enter their health information. The suit ... |
| 21.04.2017 | MDLive hit with class-action lawsuit over patient privacy issues | Richards is seeking $5 million in damages.
The suit alleges MDLive takes screenshots during the first 15 minutes patients use its app, during which they are prompted to enter their health information. The suit claims MDLive takes an average... |
| 29.08.2016 | Overview: Health tech startups innovating the behavioral health space | About the authors: @DanGebremedhin is a Principal at Flare Capital Partners, an early stage Health Technology and Services focused VC Firm. He is a practicing physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and previously served as an Asso... |
| 15.08.2016 | The next wave of transformative digital health | Raj Ganguly Contributor
Raj Ganguly is a co-founder and general partner at B Capital Group.
Eduardo Saverin Contributor
Eduardo Saverin is a founding partner at B Capital Group based in Silicon Valley, Singapore and Los Angeles.
Gavin Teo C... |
| 17.07.2016 | Kayne Anderson-backed MDLive Appoints Sylvan Waller as SVP and CMO | MDLIVE, the nation’s leader in the rapidly growing virtual health market, announced that Dr. Sylvan Waller has been appointed SVP and Chief Medical Officer of MDLIVE, Inc. effective immediately.
Dr. Waller is a board-certified emergency med... |
| 17.07.2016 | Kayne Anderson-backed MDLive Appoints Sylvan Waller as SVP and CMO | MDLIVE, the nation’s leader in the rapidly growing virtual health market, announced that Dr. Sylvan Waller has been appointed SVP and Chief Medical Officer of MDLIVE, Inc. effective immediately.
Dr. Waller is a board-certified emergency med... |
| 20.05.2016 | Microsoft brings Skype to businesses’ iOS and Android apps | Microsoft is further opening up Skype to businesses. On Thursday, the company launched its Skype for Business SDK – tools which allow iOS and Android developers to integrate Skype’s messaging, audio and voice capabilities into their own mob... |
| 10.05.2016 | Walgreens wants customers to check their own mental health online | Walgreens, the largest drug retailing chain in the U.S., has launched a partnership with Mental Health America, and a telehealth company MDLIVE, to encourage people to screen themselves for mental health problems, and if they need to, seek ... |
| 31.03.2016 | Microsoft’s new tools let businesses integrate Skype into their own web and mobile apps | Following yesterday’s news about bringing bots to the Skype platform, Microsoft today unveiled two more SDKs for its Skype platform that will allow businesses and application developers a way to integrate Skype’s capabilities into their own... |
| 01.10.2015 | Walgreens expanding telemedicine on its app in the next month | The announcement by the nation’s largest drugstore chain comes as the health care industry invests in a variety of ways to expand virtual doctor visits across the country. Telehealth providers are attracting major investors, expanding their... |
| 24.06.2015 | MDLive raises $50M in ongoing patient-doctor video visits funding bonanza | Sunrise, Florida-based MDLive, which offers telehealth services including patient-to-physician remote visits via mobile devices, raised $50 million from Bedford Funding. This brings the company's total funding to at least $73.6 million.
Exi... |
| 24.06.2015 | MDLIVE Closes $50M Investment from Bedford Funding | MDLIVE Inc., a Sunrise, Florida-based provider of a virtual health system, closed on a $50m investment from Bedford Funding.
This funding will enable the company to continue its organic growth and expand its acquisition strategy and consume... |
| 10.06.2015 | Walgreens, MDLive expand telehealth collaboration to three more states | Walgreens has expanded its relationship with telehealth service provider MDLive, bringing remote physician access to customers in three new states and, for the first time, to PCs as well as mobile devices.
Users of Walgreens mobile apps and... |
| 17.02.2015 | Telemedicine startup Avizia raises $4M to expand staff, explore acquisitions | Among its investors are NextGen Angels, Blu Venture Investors, and Middleland Capital. To date, Avizia has raised about $6 million.
Baird, formerly of Cisco, founded the company in 2013 with a group of former colleagues. The Reston, Virgini... |
| 07.01.2015 | Verizon backing away from telehealth? MDLive picks up top execs | Nancy Green, managing principal for Healthcare Innovations at Verizon, said Wednesday that Virtual Visits was no longer available. But she denied Verizon had exited the telemedicine business. She said its clients didn’t want telemedicine as... |
| 09.12.2014 | Walgreens moves into telemedicine with MDLIVE deal | Walgreens has been developing a healthcare strategy with a goal of complementing physician services and to provide a way to share these touch points with physician practices. Last year, Walgreens began offering a service to diagnose and tre... |
| 27.01.2014 | The 21st century home visit | The TeleDactyl, as depicted on the cover of Science and Invention magazine in 1925.
By Shawn Farrell
Shawn Farrell, MBA, is Telemedicine and Telehealth Program Manager at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Back in the 1920s, when medicine was more... |
| 22.01.2014 | Former Apple CEO backs virtual doctor’s office to create the ‘consumer era’ of medicine | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
For the past decade, former Apple chief executive... |
| 22.01.2014 | MDLIVE Secures $23.6M in Funding |
SUNRISE, FL, Nation's leading provider of telehealth services and software, announced today that it has raised $23.6 million in funding.
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| 22.01.2014 | Former Apple CEO backs virtual doctor’s office to create the ‘consumer era’ of medicine | For the past decade, former Apple chief executive John Sculley has been taking on the problem of reforming health care through new technologies.
And now that the Obamacare rollout is in full effect, Sculley is betting on the Sunrise, Fla.-b... |
| 22.01.2014 | MDLIVE Raises $23.6M in Funding | MDLIVE, a Sunrise, Florida-based provider of telehealth services and software, raised $23.6m in funding.
Backers included Heritage Group, Sutter Health and Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, which joined existing investors Sentara Healthcare ... |
| 22.01.2014 | MDLIVE adds investors Heritage Group, Sutter Health to expand telehealth second opinion service | The Florida-based company, launched in 2006, provides a telehealth service through employers such as Cigna. It also has a HIPAA-compliant system that helps payers and providers collect and share clinical data from patient medical records, l... |
| 16.01.2014 | 14 health care innovation predictions for 2014 | By Vector Staff
2013 saw an accelerated crumbling of borders and boundaries in health care, fueled by technological and scientific advances. Boundaries between high-tech Western medicine and global health practices have begun blurring in in... |
| - | Two telehealth companies are expanding their capabilities in different ways | This week, two telehealth providers unveiled distinct capabilities.
Los Angeles, California-based SnapMD revealed a new language functionality. Its virtual care management telemedicine platform now includes support for Spanish speakers.
Whi... |
| - | Mental Healthcare and You – Finding the Right Fit | (StatePoint) Searching for a mental health provider? You likely have questions.
Recent research from virtual care provider MDLIVE suggests that confusion around finding a mental healthcare provider is common. One in five surveyed said they ... |
| - | MDLive seeks dismissal of class-action lawsuit | Sunrise, Florida-based MDLive filed a motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit alleging the telehealth company of not protecting the privacy of patients’ information.
In the motion filed last week, MDLive says the suit “falsely accuses MDLI... |
| - | MDLive hit with class-action lawsuit over patient privacy issues | MDLive, a Sunrise, Florida-based telehealth company, is facing a class-action lawsuit over allegations it does not protect the privacy of patients’ healthcare information.
The lawsuit was filed earlier this week in Florida federal court by ... |
| - | Cigna, HCSC and others invest $50M in telehealth company MDLive | Telemedicine company MDLive has secured a $50 million growth investment led by Cigna, Health Care Service Corporation and Health Velocity Capital. Novo Holdings A/S and Industry Ventures also participated.
Via email, MDLive CEO Rich Berner ... |
| - | Verizon backing away from telehealth? MDLive picks up top execs | In a sign that competition in the telemedicine market is heating up, MDLive founder and CEO Randy Parker said it hired a couple of Verizon’s Virtual Visits team in the past month in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas... |
| - | Walgreens expanding telemedicine on its app in the next month | In the next month Walgreens will launch a new telemedicine component for its mobile application, said Adam Pelligrini, vice president of digital health at Walgreens, at this week’s Transforming Medicine: Evidence-driven Mhealth conference a... |
| - | MDLIVE adds investors Heritage Group, Sutter Health to expand telehealth second opinion service | MDLIVE has raised fresh capital one month after adding a second opinion service for pediatrics, according to a company statement.
It raised $23.6 million in a financing round led by new investors including Heritage Group, Sutter Health and ... |
| - | Telemedicine startup Avizia raises $4M to expand staff, explore acquisitions | Just a couple of months after it acquired Emerge.MD, telemedicine startup Avizia has raised fresh capital for an aggressive expansion plan this year. It raised $4 million, according to a Form D filing with the Securities and Exchange Commis... |
| - | Walgreens moves into telemedicine with MDLIVE deal | Drugstore chains have been expanding healthcare services to provide a way for patients to see doctors outside of normal physician hours without having to go to an emergency room for non-emergencies. Walgreens’ move to adopt MDLIVE as a tele... |
| - | Cigna to purchase long-standing partner MDLive | Only two months into 2021 and the health insurance arena is buzzing with activity.
The latest in a string of big moves is Cigna’s plans to purchase telehealth company Miramar, Florida-based MDLive through its health services portfolio Evern... |
| - | 15 Covid-19 forecasts healthcare leaders must get right | The annual healthcare budgeting process begins with forecasting future patient volumes, case mix, and revenue. The model baseline is the current year metrics combined with a track record of many years of forecasting. The stakes are high, as... |
| - | Plaintiff voluntarily dismisses patient privacy suit against MDLive (updated) | This post has been updated from an earlier version.
Remember the class-action lawsuit against MDLive? Apparently it’s over.
Sunrise, Florida-based MDLive unveiled yesterday that plaintiff Joan Richards voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit on J... |
| - | Walgreens, MDLive expand telehealth collaboration to three more states | Walgreens has expanded its relationship with telehealth service provider MDLive, bringing remote physician access to customers in three new states and, for the first time, to PCs as well as mobile devices.
Users of Walgreens mobile apps and... |
