In October of 2019, AllyAlign Health, an owner and convener of Medicare Advantage plans designed for senior housing residents, announced a strategic partnership with Juniper Communities, a national owner-operator of senior housing, to license Juniper’s Connect4Life program. The partnership allows AllyAlign Health to exclusively implement...
There’s a big problem with the U.S. health care system: a fundamental lack of trust between patients and the health care system, especially when it comes to the use and benefits of health data collection. A number of medical leaders came together at a dinner conversation...
Oncology Analytics, a technology-enabled service company that provides health plans, providers, and patients with an evidence-based, analytics-focused approach to utilization management, purpose-built for oncology, has announced the appointment of Dr. Lee Newcomer as a strategic advisor. Dr. Newcomer is a board-certified oncologist with more than 30...
Augmedix announced today that it has received $19 million in Series B funding that includes investments from McKesson Ventures, Redmile Group, DCM Ventures, Wanxiang Healthcare Investments, and others. The company will use the funding to accelerate product development, including automation capabilities, and to strategically scale its...
Health system provider search and scheduling solution provider Kyruus announced that Bozeman Health, a health system serving Southwest Montana, has chosen the Kyruus ProviderMatch platform to form the foundation of its system-wide digital transformation initiative. Bozeman Health will use the platform to enhance and integrate...
St. Augustine, Florida-based Flagler Health+ opened the first of about five telehealth clinics that the hospital plans to place at Publix pharmacies in St. Johns County, Florida. The telehealth kiosk is staffed remotely, either by local Flagler Health+ physicians or by American Well physicians. American Well,...
Aetion and McKesson have announced a strategic collaboration focused on advancing the use of real-world evidence (RWE) in cancer research. The goal of the collaboration is to benefit patients, regulators, the biopharma industry, and payers; it will provide best-in-class solutions in multiple tumor types, including...
Kyruus announced today that Lafayette General Health (LGH), a leading nonprofit health system serving South-Central Louisiana, has chosen the company’s provider search, scheduling, and data management solutions to enhance access for its expanding patient community. As part of this initiative, the health system will also...
GRAIL, a health care company whose mission is to detect cancer early, announced new data validating the performance of its investigational multi-cancer early detection blood test for the first time in an independent cohort of participants. The results from the validation analysis demonstrates that GRAIL’s...
McKesson Corporation has announced an expansion of its collaboration with Augmedix. Augmedix provides doctors with hardware—either a smartphone or Google Glass—to securely livestream clinic visits to its cloud-based platform. A combination of proprietary natural language processing technology and human expert teams process the livestream to ensure...