In the News

Health Tech Faves & Investment Trends from Innovation Insiders

McKesson Ventures Partner Michelle Snyder was one of the speakers at a recent HLTH webinar on investment trends in the health tech field. The webinar, held June 24, 2021, also featured Keith Figloli, general partner at LVRHealth; and Anne Wellington, managing director at Cedars-Sinai. Health tech...

Rehumanizing Doctor-Patient Relationships with Manny Krakaris, CEO, Augmedix

In a recent episode of the Cowen Insights podcast, Cowen’s healthcare technology analyst, Charles Rhyee, spoke with Augmedix CEO Manny Krakaris. They discussed the administrative burden of medical note documentation on providers today and how Augmedix’s offerings can increase productivity and prevent physician burnout. Augmedix provides...

Covid and Big Tech are pushing Augmented Reality into modern healthcare

There is an Augmented Reality revolution happening in healthcare. You can see it at places like Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, England, where a pediatric heart surgeon recently used a pair of Microsoft HoloLens 2 smart glasses to transmit the view of the patient’s...

Drive to end cancer could pioneer diagnostic technology

GRAIL, the developer of multi-cancer early detection test Galleri, is building on its earlier commercial partnership with the UK’s National Health Service. That partnership aims to confirm Galleri’s clinical and economic performance in the UK healthcare system, which is one step toward regular use by...

HumanFirst joins the FDA, HHS and more than 20 organizations and leading health companies to launch the Digital Health Measurement Collaborative Community (DATAcc)

More than 20 organizations and companies, including McKesson Ventures portfolio companies Aetion, Evidation Health, and Xealth, have joined together with other members of the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) to create the Digital Health Measurement Collaborative Community (DATAcc), an effort to develop best practices and streamline...

Will digital health funding boom or bust? 5 experts weigh in

Rock Health CEO Bill Evans was one of five experts interviewed by Health Evolution about whether or not investment in the digital health sector will continue at its current pace over the years to come. In addition to asking about the pace of investment, the...