Healthgrades, a resource that connects consumers, physicians, and health systems, today announced it has acquired healthcare consumer and physician engagement company Evariant. With the combination of these two companies, Healthgrades says it will offer the most comprehensive end-to-end engagement platform in the health care industry. Terms...
Medical note automation platform creator Augmedix has announced that Dr. Davin Lundquist will be joining the company as its chief medical officer. In his new role, Dr. Lundquist will drive rapid technological innovation across Augmedix’s product development teams while maintaining clinical excellence and tight alignment...
Jessica DaMassa of WTF Health interviewed American Well President and GM of Health Plan Solutions Danielle Russella at HLTH 2019. Russella weighed in on a number of topics including how “digital-first” health plans will impact telehealth, the state of play of telehealth/health plan relations, and...
Nordic company SidekickHealth announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with Bayer to provide a digital medication management and lifestyle change platform to patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD), a condition that is estimated to affect more than 236 million people globally. Sidekick, founded by...
Cigna pharmacy benefit management arm Express Scripts recently unveiled the first group of digital therapeutics included in its digital health formulary. That group includes Propeller Health. The point of creating the digital health formulary was to help its health plan clients find vetted digital tools to...
GRAIL Inc., a health care company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured, recently announced the appointment of Gautam Kollu as Chief Commercial Officer. “We are very pleased to welcome Gautam, who brings extensive experience in accelerating market development efforts to...
Xealth recently announced that it is a finalist in Accenture’s HealthTech Innovation Challenge, a recognition that supports innovative approaches and solutions for improving the way people access, manage, and finance health care in North America. Since its inception, the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge has recognized innovations...
It’s easy to see why there’s a lot of doom and gloom about partnerships between digital health companies and pharmaceutical companies: Proteus Digital Health’s floundering business and failed investment round; Sanofi’s change of direction that led to parting ways with Onduo; and the premature conclusion...
Seattle is best known for being the headquarters of two of the biggest tech giants in the world—Amazon and Microsoft—but experts say the Seattle area is on the edge of a major startup boom. A confluence of factors including lots of talent and the increasing...
There are a number of trends shaping the status of digital health, but the four that stand out above the rest as the most disruptive of this year are artificial intelligence, telehealth and the internet of medical things, care delivery for underserved populations, and value-based...