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Machine learning applications are proliferating and improving, and this month we'll explore the many ways they're being put to work.

Alongside new support for hypertension and mental health, the company has also introduced Spanish language support to its app and live services.

Flare Capital's Alexandra Mullin and Ian Chiang outline COVID-19's impact on the worsening opioid crisis and how the digital opioid use disorder space is likely to develop over the coming years.

The $31 million purchase will add new capabilities to DarioHealth's condition management and behavior change platform.

The startup's app prices care using cash rates, while letting its members choose their preferred care by comparing the costs of their local providers.

Also: Cleo names three new leadership positions. 

Also: NIH moves forward with physIQ's COVID digital biomarkers; Tyto Care adds pulse oximeter.

This special collection, which will be updated throughout the month, looks at what's being done to ease the provider burden.

Former Propeller Health COO and CCO Chris Hogg discusses the recent embrace of virtual care technologies and how overcoming geographic limitations could lead to a shakeup among incumbent organizations resistant to change.

Also: Papa expands its services to all 50 states. Guided audio walks may be coming to Apple Watch.