North America

The company will be using the funds to accelerate platform growth, and expand its sales and services.

The brick-and-mortar rollout is so far limited to the Midwest. 

Also: Heal's house call services come to LA seniors; Babyscripts' partnership with AmeriHealth Caritas DC.

This new funding round comes less than a year after Ro raised $88 million to fund its smoking cessation platform Zero. 

The new money will be put toward further expansion of the digital platform and scaling brand partnerships.

Zachary Landman, a resident surgeon for Harvard Orthopaedics, chief medical officer for DoctorBase and regular mHealthNews blogger, presents this mHealth primer on some of the common misperceptions about the new HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule, which went into effect this week.