Exclusive: Piction Health, which started as a mobile app that uses AI to recognize skin conditions from pictures, has raised $6M in seed funding to build out its virtual dermatology clinic. It's cut down on dermatology wait times to within 48 hours.

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While most of the questions directed at Witty concerned whether UnitedHealth did enough to prevent and respond to the cyberattack on Change, senators also drilled into a central question that’s swirled around the entire debacle: Is UnitedHealth too big?

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Walmart's struggles with its health clinics business go back years. Now it's closing them all down. Shelby Livingston has the latest: endpts.com/walmart-exits-…

scoop: Optum is shutting down its virtual care business, raising questions about how UnitedHealth Group is thinking about its virtual strategy. Some employees were told that their last date will be in July.

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excited to work with Shelby Livingston to build out health tech coverage at Endpoints News with Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer !

DNA testing giant 23andMe's CEO is looking to take the company private, according to a securities filing. It’s not alone in having a hard time - genealogy company Ancestry laid off 6% of its workforce in March, I reported yesterday.

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scoop: Ancestry, which Blackstone bought in 2020 for $4.7 billion, cut around 6% of its workers as it struggles to grow subscriber revenue. It’s the genealogy giant’s fourth round of layoffs in four years as consumer interest in the space wanes.

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scoop: Equip, a virtual eating disorder treatment startup backed by Optum Ventures, Tiger Global, and General Catalyst, raised $35M in new funds. It previously announced a $58M Series B in 2022

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scoop: online insurance broker GoHealth, which now focuses on matching seniors with Medicare plans, laid off around 3% of its workforce in March

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scoop: Intellihealth, a startup working with the state of Connecticut to provide weight loss care, raised $24M in a series A round

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Rightway, a Tiger, Thrive and Khosla-backed PBM startup, raised $109M, according to a filing we spotted

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We're growing our Health Tech team here at Endpoints News !

The role: Health Tech Reporter

The pitch: Come join Ngai Yeung, Drew Armstrong + me as we build out our first year of Health Tech coverage and newsletter here at Endpoints

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scoop: Included Health, a virtual care and navigation startup that serves employees of giants like Walmart and Amazon, has laid off under 6% of its workers

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scoop: Weight loss app Noom has laid off employees, including health coaches, as the startup leans into prescribing weight loss medication. This is Noom’s fourth round of layoffs in three years.

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We launched our health tech coverage at Endpoints News News in the middle of last year, under the theory that same forces of money and innovation that drive biopharma would be just as interesting in healthcare. In the last few days, Ngai Yeung has dropped scoop after scoop on the

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scoop: Telehealth giant Teladoc cut jobs earlier this month, eliminating some roles in engineering and data science. Last January, the company laid off 6% of its workforce.

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scoop: Incredible Health, a job marketplace platform for nurses valued at $1.65 billion, has laid off staff this month

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scoop: mental health tech unicorn SonderMind lays off 17% of its employees

the startup’s layoffs are among the first this year in digital health, which has had to scramble to preserve cash as investors pull back on funding

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