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Two questions come up on almost every telehealth discovery call, usually before anything else: where do the doctors come from, and how does the pharmacy plug in?

The honest answer is that a direct-to-consumer telehealth business runs on two rented rails. One is a 50-state physician network that supplies the clinicians. The other is a pharmacy, often a compounding pharm...

A security questionnaire lands in your inbox and asks, somewhere on page 3, whether you’re “HIPAA certified.” Or an investor asks the same thing on a call, and you’re not sure whether the honest answer helps you or sinks the round. HITRUST vs SOC 2 vs HIPAA is the comparison most digital health founders back into exactly this way: three names that show up in procurement and d...

You’re building a digital MSK coach, a connected-inhaler app, or a CBT homework tracker, and somewhere in the pitch deck there’s a line about Medicare reimbursement under RTM. That line is where most remote therapeutic monitoring app development goes sideways. Teams treat RTM as RPM for therapy and ship a product that bills wrong.

RTM is its own category. It has its ow...

US health spending wastes about $528 billion a year on nonoptimized medication therapy, with nonadherence as the primary driver. For a Medicare Part D plan, that same problem shows up as a Star Rating, and a plan’s adherence measures decide whether it clears the threshold for the federal quality bonus that funds next year’s benefits. That’s the buyer a clinical medication adh...

On June 25, 2026, UpDoc announced an FDA 510(k) clearance (K253281) it had received on December 23, 2025, for what it calls the first software as a medical device built on patient-facing large language models. The clearance covers insulin and medication management for ...