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Aetion-HealthVerity partnership: More data sources, faster evidence generation
Aetion and HealthVerity have announced a new partnership to streamline and accelerate access to HealthVerity’s expansive and diverse data sources and data preparation services for research on the Aetion Evidence Platform. Combining HealthVerity’s real-world data sources with Aetion’s real-world evidence platform will...
Healthgrades Acquires Evariant
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...
Dr. Davin Lundquist Joins Augmedix as Chief Medical Officer
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...
Will ‘Digital-First’ Health Plans Usher in Telehealth At-Scale? | Danielle Russella, American Well
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 rumors of an IPO....
Digital therapeutics company SidekickHealth inks partnership with Bayer
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...
Express Scripts unveiled the first group of digital therapeutics included in its digital health formulary
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 help...
GRAIL Appoints Gautam Kollu as Chief Commercial Officer
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 support the adoption of...
Xealth Named Finalist in Accenture’s HealthTech Innovation Challenge
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...
Recent breakups don’t presage a pharma-digital collaboration doomsday, experts say
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 of a...
Investors say these are the 18 hottest enterprise startups from Seattle’s booming tech scene to watch in 2020 (MSFT, AMZN)
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 availability of venture capital and angel investments are...
Press Releases
VC-backed GRAIL Appoints Cook as CEO
GRAIL, Inc., a McKesson Ventures portfolio company whose mission is to detect cancer early when it can be cured, announced on December 14th the appointment of Jennifer Cook as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 2nd, 2018. Bill Rastetter, the interim CEO since...
McKesson Ventures Expands Investment Team
In order to further its mission of partnering with exceptional healthcare entrepreneurs, McKesson Ventures has added two new members to its investment team: Carrie Hurwitz Williams as Principal and Irem Mertol as Director. “We are pleased to welcome both Carrie and...
Evariant Announces New Engagement Center Solution to Enable Smarter Patient Engagement and Retention
Healthcare CRM data analytics platform Evariant announced today that it is launching a new Evariant Engagement Center. This product enables call center agents to deliver on-the-fly, highly personalized patient experiences resulting in smarter patient engagement,...
Evariant Named Recipient of Marcum Tech Top 40 Award as one of Connecticut’s Fastest Growing Tech Companies
The Connecticut Technology Council and Marcum LLP announced on September 19 that Evariant, a healthcare CRM data analytics platform, made the Marcum Tech Top 40 (TT40) list of fastest-growing technology companies in Connecticut. This is the sixth year that the company...
Truveris Secures $25 Million in New Funding to Help Reduce Cost and Improve Access to Prescription Medications
Truveris, a healthcare technology company that pioneered cloud-based analytics solutions for the prescription benefits industry, announced today that it has secured $25 million in a new round of funding. The Series D round was led by McKesson Ventures and included...