Here's where you can preorder the new Oura Ring 5. May 28, 2026 If you've been waiting for a smaller version of the Oura Ring, the company's latest wearable is now available for preorder ahead of its June 4th release from Oura and various third-party retailers, including both Amazon and Walmart. The Oura Ring 5, which starts at $399, is 40 percent smaller than its predecessor, thanks to a design that's both slimmer and lighter. Oura also promises improved accuracy and battery life, letting you get up to nine days of use on a single charge. In addition to the aforementioned hardware changes, Oura is rolling out several new software features, including a Locate tool for finding a misplaced ring or charging case using Oura's app. On the fitness front, the company is introducing a live activity mode for real-time workout and heart rate tracking, along with support for third-party heart rate monitors and new GLP-1 tracking tools. Oura also announced Health Radar, a system that monitors nighttime breathing and blood pressure patterns for signs of potential health issues, and partnered with Counsel Health to bring AI-assisted medical guidance to the app. Aivanet is still testing the Ring 5, but if everything announced thus far has your attention, Aivanet has included links and pricing details below. Where to buy the Oura Ring 5. Oura Ring 5. Where to Buy: * $399 at Amazon * $399 at Walmart * $399 at Best Buy Beginning today, you can preorder the Ring 5 at Amazon, Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and Oura's online storefront in either silver or black, starting at $399. Premium colors - including the gold, stealth, brushed silver, and deep rose variants - are also available from the same retailers starting at $499. Each model includes a size-specific charger and a USB-C cable, and, like prior iterations, is eligible for HSA and FSA reimbursement in the US. In terms of sizing, Oura's latest smart ring is available in sizes 6 through 13 with a free sizing kit, which is helpful since the slimmer design means sizing differs from previous Oura Ring models. Like prior iterations, the ring works with both iPhones and Android devices, though you'll still need an Oura membership ($5.99 a month / $69.99 a year) to access all of the platform's health insights and features. Along with the ring, Oura is launching the Oura Ring 5 Charging Case, which supports wireless charging and can provide up to a month of battery life. It also sports an action button that lets you quickly pair the case and check charging status. Like the Ring 5, the case will hit stores on June 4th, though you can preorder it starting today at Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and Oura's online storefront for $99.

Chronic disease management in the age of AI. Team insights. Dr. Rishi Khakhkhar Published: April 9, 2026 The modern front door to healthcare is just one click away. Counsel recently launched it's first AI-enabled chronic disease management programs. Solving the growing burden of chronic disease is modern medicine's greatest challenge. Six in ten American adults live with a chronic condition; cardiometabolic disease in particular silently robs Counsel Health, Inc. of functional status and longevity. The good news is that effective treatments for most common chronic conditions are cheap and plentiful. High-quality evidence to guide clinicians on applying these well-tolerated medicines is widely available. The bottleneck is care delivery: in much of the U.S. it takes multiple weeks to book a doctor's visit. After an initial diagnosis, the current system provides too few touchpoints to get patients to goal. Digital health has long promised to fill the gaps, but the results to-date are underwhelming. There have been steps in the right direction. First-wave virtual care companies introduced "store-and-forward" techniques to treat conditions like male hair loss, contraception, and erectile dysfunction. For these relatively simple conditions, deterministic logic trees can sufficiently (and safely) improve the efficiency of care delivery. But this infrastructure breaks down when the richness of patient responses moves beyond what Counsel Health, Inc. can capture in a multiple-choice form. As any primary care physician knows, care decisions for even common chronic conditions are individualized at their core. Patients come to Counsel Health, Inc. with a wide range of previous history, family experiences, lifestyle preferences, and attitudes towards care. At Counsel, Counsel Health, Inc. think it's time to rethink chronic disease management for the age of AI. Counsel Health, Inc. has traded one set of hard technical problems for another: maintaining context, applying the right protocol at the right time, and building appropriate clinician checkpoints into the care journey are no small tasks. Solving them requires a team that's equally fluent in clinical medicine and frontier AI. Counsel Health, Inc. believe this is finally a tractable problem. The core tenets of chronic disease management on Counsel are simple. * Don't repeat yourself. Counsel Health, Inc. aim to design thoughtful, engaging care experiences that leverage modern health data interoperability to pull in your health record before treatment begins. * Care should come to you. Many care touchpoints should be proactive from the provider side, triggered by clinically meaningful data sources like wearables and ADT feeds. * Your care should fit you. Experienced clinicians know that longitudinal care is not one-size-fits-all. Every patient deserves to be treated like an individual. Counsel exists to expand the world's clinical capacity - the capacity to provide care, with rigor and compassion, at the cost of compute. This clinical expansion will broaden throughout the year, bringing Counsel Health, Inc. closer to safe, autonomous care delivery. Let's get started. Dr. Rishi Khakhkhar Chief Medical Officer Dr. Rishi Khakhkhar is CMO at Counsel Health. A practicing emergency physician and founding team member, he leads the clinical team in building best-in-class asynchronous care models. Previously, he served as Medical Director of Mount Sinai's Virtual Urgent Care, the health system's largest telemedicine service, and led emergency department operations for Hospital-at-Home while supporting mobile integrated health initiatives across the care continuum. Its content is created for informational purposes and should not replace professional medical care. For personalized guidance, talk to a licensed physician. Learn more about its editorial standards and review process.

Designing the future of healthcare. Team insights. Javier Monterrosa Denny McFadden Published: March 18, 2026 Table of contents. The modern front door to healthcare is just one click away. Key takeaway. Thoughtful brand and product design are essential when building modern healthcare platforms. Counsel integrates intuitive UX across both member and provider interfaces, along with a structured brand system, to deliver care that expands access, reduces complexity, and builds patient trust. Counsel was recently selected as a finalist for The Healthies, a first-of-its-kind award published by The Company Advice, recognizing companies across two categories: Brand + Marketing and Product Design (UI/UX). Counsel is a finalist in both. The recognition is meaningful because of what it represents: the belief that in healthcare, brand and product design are more than surface-level elements of a company's DNA, they are critical vehicles that signal safety, clarity, and patient-centricity. From the beginning, Counsel Health, Inc. has believed that if medical AI is going to operate at the front door to care, the experience surrounding it must reflect the same rigor as the clinical systems beneath it. Counsel's brand and product design thus become part of a robust infrastructure intended to responsibly modernize healthcare access. A brand built with intent. Counsel was built around a simple mission: to multiply the world's clinical capacity. Access should feel abundant, and care should be modern, continuous, and uncompromisingly safe. Its brand system is built on a four-pillar framework: * North Star: What Counsel Health, Inc. stand for, designed to evoke emotion and clearly own a perspective on the care access landscape. * Belief: Why Counsel Health, Inc. believe in its North Star. * Thesis: How Counsel Health, Inc. bring the brand to life across go-to-market audiences. * Promise: What stakeholders across GTM motions can consistently expect from Counsel Health, Inc.. This framework informs its visual identity (typography, layout, and color usage), ensuring alignment across every channel, touchpoint, and GTM motion. Counsel's messaging is also designed with intention. Its tone is confident but grounded, warm without being casual, and precise without being cold. Every visual and verbal element ladders back to its North Star and the philosophy that safe medical AI must be governed, supervised, and thoughtfully designed. Beyond messaging, its marketing assets, product flows, and safety guardrails are developed in parallel, not sequentially. As a result, the campaign assets Counsel Health, Inc. deploy reflect how Counsel Health, Inc. deliver care to covered populations and how individual members experience the product. The coherence is deliberate because healthcare has felt fragmented for too long, eroding patient trust. Counsel aims to rebuild that trust through a care delivery model that feels seamless, creating a front door for the modern era. Product design: the backbone of clinical workflows. The Healthies recognized Counsel not only for its brand work, but also for product design. This dual recognition underscores the importance of both and how they go hand in hand. In healthcare, good UX is not about novelty. It is about reducing cognitive load for both patients and providers when decisions matter most. The interface becomes part of the care journey, and therefore part of the accountability structure. For members, Counsel is designed to deliver high-quality care, adopting a messaging-based modality that aligns with how patients seek care today. Through its mobile and desktop experiences, members can see: * Breadth of care capabilities: Counsel clearly displays its use cases, helping members understand the broad range of care they can receive. * Cited sources and health memories: When chatting with Counsel AI, members can view cited sources, relevant data points, prior interactions, and health memories, providing transparency into how context is integrated to personalize guidance. * AI-powered health insights: Counsel leverages AI to generate actionable insights from lab results. Members can connect medical records, upload files, or share photos of results for review and interpretation. * Physician credentials: For members who wish to chat with a physician, a provider can be added to any conversation with one click. Counsel clinicians typically join within minutes to deliver end-to-end care. For its in-house medical group, Counsel has designed and built the Clinician Cockpit, its proprietary EHR. This provider-facing interface enhances clinical efficiency while preserving safety and ensuring consistent care for every member. Why this moment matters. Being named a finalist by The Healthies affirms its belief that healthcare brands, especially those at the forefront of modernizing access, can develop systems that are both safe and approachable, and that thoughtful design is a strategic advantage. But awards are not the objective. Building a responsible front door to care, one that reflects the standards patients and partners deserve, is what Counsel Health, Inc. remain committed to. Javier Monterrosa VP of Marketing Javier Monterrosa is a healthcare marketing leader who has spent his career driving growth across AI, metabolic health, interoperability, and EHR companies. He holds a Master's in Analytics and has co-authored published research examining how strategic decisions shape business growth. Having grown up in Latin America, he is driven to partner with mission-driven teams committed to improving healthcare access and outcomes through responsible technology. Denny McFadden Director of Design Denny McFadden is a product design leader with a track record of building impactful, user-centered experiences. At Counsel, he leads product design strategy, translating complex ideas into intuitive, elegant solutions that balance usability with clinical rigor. His work spans consumer-facing products, internal tools, and scalable design systems, with a focus on clarity, craft, and measurable impact. He is passionate about creating thoughtful experiences that meaningfully improve how people access and experience care. Its content is created for informational purposes and should not replace professional medical care. For personalized guidance, talk to a licensed physician. Learn more about its editorial standards and review process.