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...
McKesson Ventures portfolio company Komodo Health has been named as one of the Rising Stars of the Forbes Cloud 100 List. The Rising Stars are fast-growing cloud companies whose early momentum suggests they could become tomorrow’s must-use platforms, much like Stripe and Slack. The Rising Stars...
The odds are good that doctors didn’t get into medicine so they could spend half their days, or more, writing chart notes. But that is the life of most physicians: half of their average workdays are spent entering data into EHRs and conducting clerical work,...
Becker’s Hospital Review recently interviewed Aaron Sheedy, chief operating officer at Xealth, about the company’s mission to streamline the entire care delivery process, end to end, by giving providers tools that will improve outcomes and reduce their workloads. Xealth spun out of Renton, Washington-based Providence St....
According to a recent survey commissioned by American Well, two-thirds of Americans are willing to use telehealth. But when it comes to behavioral health, that’s not true: only 30 percent of the survey’s respondents would be willing to use it for counseling or other mental...
Electronic health record platform Epic is partnering with telehealth provider American Well to make video visits available directly in Epic’s MyChart portal. This will allow providers to incorporate video as part of care delivery. With the American Well Telehealth Patient app, patients can schedule virtual appointments...
Altais announced that it is partnering with Aledade and the California Medical Association (CMA) to help independent physician practices optimize their practice workflows and support value-based care efforts. “Regulatory, administrative, and financial burdens are causing a loss of practice vibrancy and unprecedented levels of physician and...