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McKesson and Augmedix Expand Collaboration to Enhance the Doctor-Patient Relationship
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...
The Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2019: Meet The 20 Up-And-Comers in Tech’s Hottest Category
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 demonstrate impressive...
Can Artificial Intelligence Cut Docs’ Paperwork Burden?
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, while only 27 percent is spent with patients. However,...
How conversations with frontline hospital staff keep Xealth from becoming another ‘tone-deaf’ startup: 4 Qs with COO Aaron Sheedy
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...
Walmart is launching its first standalone primary care clinic
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 health services. Why is that important? It...
Epic MyChart Partnership Provides Telehealth Services to Patients
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...
Altais, Aledade and California Medical Association Team Up to Support Independent Practices
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...
The woman who founded top health-tech VC Rock Health is now launching her first startup, and it shows that a long-neglected market is heating up
As co-founder of the well-regarded health-tech venture capital firm Rock Health, Halle Tecco is a big name in the digital health world. And now she’s turned her attention to a startup of her own: a women’s health-focused company called Natalist. The idea came from Tecco’s own experience. While trying to get pregnant,...
Baptist Health South Florida Launches New Online Patient Access Experience for Consumers with Technology from Kyruus
Baptist Health South Florida has chosen Kyruus to power its new online provider search and scheduling system. The health system has implemented both Kyruus ProviderMatch for Consumers and Kyruus ProviderMatch for Consumers in Spanish on its website to enable a user-friendly provider search and scheduling experience...
American Well’s 2019 Consumer Survey Finds Majority of Consumers Open to Telehealth, Adoption Continues to Grow
Telehealth company American Well today announced the findings of its Telehealth Index: 2019 Consumer Survey. The results show that 66 percent of Americans are willing to use telehealth, and 8 percent have actually had a telehealth visit with a doctor. However, while consumers recognize that telehealth is fast,...
Press Releases
US Venture Capital Fund McKesson Ventures Leads £2.25M Investment in UK Tech City Dementia Start-Up Unforgettable.org
In its first investment outside North America, McKesson Ventures has invested in British start-up Unforgettable.org. Unforgettable.org provides more than 1,000 simple solutions on its website to make dementia sufferers’ lives easier, as well as supporting their...
Sedgwick Introduces Innovative Whole Health Solution
Sedgwick has tapped into the expertise of healthcare concierge service Accolade to launch a new whole health solution designed to ensure the physical, emotional, and financial health of clients’ employees and their family members as they navigate workers’...
Banner Health Selects Kyruus for Its Patient Access and Provider Data Management Solutions
McKesson Ventures portfolio company Kyruus has announced that its patient access and provider management solutions will be used by Banner Health across its operations in six states. Kyruus is a leading provider in search and scheduling solutions for healthcare...
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Offers New Program to Care for Chronically Ill Seniors At Home
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Landmark Health are teaming up to shape the future of healthcare. The two companies are introducing a revolutionary new program that provides in-home care to seniors. Never before has New England offered this type of a...
PokitDok Launches on AWS Marketplace, Becomes APN Advanced Technology Partner
At this year’s annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference (HIMSS 2017), PokitDok announced that its platform is now available on the AWS Marketplace in the newly launched Healthcare & Life Sciences category. AWS consumers will now have...