Phreesia

Digital health leaders comment on the year's significant events, including the shuttering of Walmart Health, the CrowdStrike outage, concerns about off-label advertising and more.

This week's top stories include Massachusetts ordering hospitals to reduce the number of nonurgent procedures in response to critical staffing shortages, and health startup Phreesia purchasing patient engagement company Insignia Health.

Insignia Health developed the Patient Activation Measure. 

The company boasts that the new system is able to fill appointments in 5.3 minutes. 

The digital health mainstay closed its first day of trading roughly 40% above its set price, and looks forward to scaling its business as a public entity.

The New York company's S-1 reveals a recent profitable turn and a quiet 2018 acquisition.