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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...
How 8 Massachusetts Companies Shaped the 4 Most Disruptive Digital Health Trends of 2019
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 care and the patient-first approach....
The Future of Healthcare Technology Roundtable
In this first installment of the Future of Healthcare Technology Roundtable discussion series, several health care leaders came together to answer questions about the present and future of health care technology. One of those individuals was Mike McSherry, CEO of Xealth. Here are the questions and McSherry’s answers....
Improving Health with Better Data
Decisions in health care are often flawed because they are based on limited information. However, the growing ability to capture massive amounts of data and apply artificial intelligence to its analysis provides a growing potential for better insights into health care and improvement of patient outcomes. Komodo...
Press Releases
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...
Swisslog Healthcare Invests in PipelineRx to Establish Strategic Partnership
Swisslog Healthcare has announced that it will be investing significantly in PipelineRx. The two companies will be using their new partnership to improve hospital workflow efficiency and to provide patients with a better experience. The two companies will be improving...
Binary Fountain and Kyruus Announce Partnership to Enhance Patient Acquisition and Engagement for Health Systems
Binary Foundation and Kyruus will be partnering to help healthcare organizations increase their online patient acquisition and the general patient experience. The partnership will integrate Kyruus’s ProviderMatch™ for Consumers, a web-based search and scheduling...
Evariant Appoints Tom Schultz Chief Growth Officer
Evariant, the healthcare industry’s leading CRM platform, has appointed Thomas (Tom) Schultz as its new Chief Growth Officer. Beginning July 31st, Schultz will directly oversee the company’s corporate, product, and go-to-market strategies. “I am energized by...