Organizational Governance

This week's top stories include cybercriminals finding new ways to take advantage of vulnerabilities in the digital ecosystem, the CMS expecting a 5% increase in Medicare Part D average premiums, and WellSky acquiring Healthify.

Earlier this year, the specialist diabetes centre released its first report that indicated that patients using its Remote Patient Monitoring plan achieved an average HbA1c reduction of 1.7% points over 90 days.

The investment round was led by Felix Capital and will enable the company to scale current offerings and expand into new areas.

Also: Cleo taps new VP of Product, Komodo Health names CRO, Talkspace welcomes former Eli Lilly exec and Zipari adds to C-suite.  

The startup aims to be operating in more than seven countries by the end of 2021. 

In an upcoming HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session, Johnson & Johnson EVP and Enterprise CIO Jim Swanson will discuss the pandemic’s role in healthcare digitization and what leaders can expect moving forward.  

Also, British medtech company Smith+Nephew launches its robotics platform in India.

Also: Philips and Cognizant team up to develop digital health solutions and MindMed taps Datavant to improve access to real-world data.   

Also: Maven welcomes its first CMO, Flume Health adds Haven alum as COO and Nexben hires CTO.   

The programme, which is focused on providing preventive and personalised healthcare for citizens of the United Arab Emirates, wants more citizens to offer samples.