by McKesson Ventures | Jul 24, 2019 | Portfolio News
As the field of medicine advances, new connections leading to the diagnosis of rare illnesses are being made. Komodo Health’s artificial intelligence algorithms are sifting through a decade of data about health conditions across several hundred million Americans, many...
by McKesson Ventures | Jul 16, 2019 | Portfolio News
Large companies like Lyft, Pinterest, and Uber have made big-splash IPOs in 2019, and Slack and Airbnb are expected to join them. But behind the headline-making companies is a wave of digital health startups that have been transforming the health industry for close to...
by McKesson Ventures | Jul 16, 2019 | Portfolio News
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, author of the book HealthConsuming, recently wrote on the Health Populi website about how we could “Amazon-ize” health care to increase its benefit to consumers. In the U.S., patients have been morphing into health care consumers—a trend that has...
by McKesson Ventures | Jul 12, 2019 | Portfolio News
Health technology investment and research company Rock Health reports that from 2011 to 2017, 121 digital health companies earned $2.7 billion in venture funding to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to 19 areas ranging from drug research and development to...
by McKesson Ventures | Jul 12, 2019 | Industry News, Portfolio News
Adam Boehler has stepped down from his position as head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to take a position in the world of foreign aid. In addition to his CMMI role, Boehler served as a senior advisor to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar...
by McKesson Ventures | Jul 12, 2019 | Portfolio News
Richard Eskew may be the chief privacy officer at Accolade, but his colleagues rarely have difficulty finding him. Because he is available to talk and answer employees’ questions, he is able to keep privacy and security front and center for Accolade’s more than 900...
