by McKesson Ventures | Oct 21, 2020 | Portfolio News
The promise of digital health, telehealth, and other medtech solutions like remote patient monitoring has been apparent to people in the industry for a long time, but it wasn’t until COVID-19 forced the adoption of these tools that the promise started to become a...
by McKesson Ventures | Oct 17, 2020 | Portfolio News
Vineti, a cloud software startup that manages the development of drugs such as cancer vaccines and cell and gene therapies recently raised a $33 million extension to its Series C round. Business Insider recently interviewed Vineti CEO and Co-founder Amy DuRoss about...
by McKesson Ventures | Oct 2, 2020 | Portfolio News
The shortage of COVID-19 tests has become an ongoing problem in the U.S. The shortages of test kits and testing supplies, combined with lack of access to physical testing sites, contributed to the lack of coronavirus testing nationwide and the spread of infection...
by McKesson Ventures | Oct 1, 2020 | Portfolio News
At HIMSS’ recent Accelerate Health event, Rock Health Chief Operating Officer Megan Zweig gave participants some insights on how digital health has behaved during the pandemic and the resulting volatile economy. Rock Health statistics point to a record-breaking year....
by McKesson Ventures | Sep 30, 2020 | Portfolio News
Medical scribes first appeared in the 1970s, when they began serving as note-takers for ER physicians. But after the federal HITECH Act motivated healthcare providers to adopt electronic health records, scribing really took off. EHRs were supposed to simplify patient...
by McKesson Ventures | Sep 29, 2020 | Portfolio News
Hims, a direct-to-consumer telehealth startup, is close to securing a deal to go public through a merger with special-purpose acquisition company Oaktree Acquisition Corporation, according to a September 25 report in Bloomberg. According to people familiar with the...
