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This week's top stories include 73 health plans earning five-star ratings for 2022, up from 21 in 2021, and cyber experts warning of an "aggressive" threat actor targeting healthcare.

There is much more we can do to help people access the care they need and one benefit of the past year and a half has been a scale-up of digital tools, says Dr Harriet Bradley, UK medical director of Livi.

Also, US-based Pearl has received regulatory approvals to market its AI diagnostic tool for dental radiology in Australia and New Zealand.

The telehealth and digital health innovations that started during the pandemic are here to stay, says Sri Bharadwaj, VP of digital innovation at the Franciscan Alliance.

The new tool will offer 10-minute lessons on CBT and provide mindfulness techniques. 

Headspace Health is combining Ginger and Headspace for Work into a single offering for employers.

In February, Equip closed a $13 million Series A funding round partially aimed at geographic expansion.

Armin Scheuer, VP of Business Development International at HIMSS, says Germany is prescribing apps to patients within their normal care setting, in the form of DiGAs, and France has decided to replicate the system.

More than five million adults will be able to access to CBT through Big Health’s apps.

Matthew Fisher, general counsel at Carium, talks about bedrock principles of patient privacy, advances in RPM, CMS rules around non-physiologic data and how telehealth should fit into the continuum of care going forward.