Modern Healthcare Staff

Gabriel Perna

Digital Health Editor

Gabriel Perna is the Digital Health Editor of Modern Healthcare. He has written extensively about the cross section of healthcare, business, and technology throughout his career with previous stops at Health Evolution, Chief Executive, Physician’s Practice, and Healthcare Innovation. He is an award-winning journalist with a deep understanding of the digital media landscape and growing a healthcare readership. Gabe is a graduate of Marist College and lives in Connecticut with his wife, Amanda, their two boys, Spencer and Logan, and their dog, Goose.

See All Staff Page

Recent Stories

Top digital health funding: Morgan Health backs analytics company

The investment is the second in as many weeks for Morgan Health, which co-led $80 million round in autism-focused startup, Cortica.

Digital health companies face time crunch with employer contracts

Digital health companies selling to employers are dealing with buyers frustrated by the lack of uptake and return on investment of their offerings.

Soda Health gets $50M to manage MA supplemental benefits

The funding round was led by venture capital firm General Catalyst and included former Humana CEO Bruce Broussard.

Health IT agency must survive Trump-era cuts: Micky Tripathi

Micky Tripathi, assistant secretary for technology policy at HHS, offered his predictions for the future of artificial intelligence regulation.

Mount Sinai Health opens AI center for research, development

Mount Sinai has been active in its development and use of AI, including spinning off multiple companies.

Top digital health funding: Morgan Health backs autism startup

Pediatrics-focused startups got investments this week from General Catalyst and Morgan Health, a business unit of JPMorgan Chase.

Epic, Oracle and the push for international EHR dominance

Oracle Health and Epic are looking at the electronic health records market in countries where the digitization of healthcare lags behind the U.S.

Hims & Hers, Talkspace among Q3 winners in digital health

Digital health companies faced high advertising costs and focused on returns on investments in the third quarter.

General Catalyst’s HATCo to buy Summa Health for $485M

General Catalyst's HATCo has also committed $350 million for the first five years of the deal.

Telehealth companies hesitate to bring GLP-1s to kids

While some GLP-1s are approved for patients age 12 and older, only a few telehealth companies will prescribe them to children.

AI, GLP-1s and retail woes: What happened at HLTH 2024

Tech partnerships with providers and payers as well as possible post-election policy changes were also among the discussions during the four-day event.