In a paper recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School said that certain drugs prescribed to teens and young adults with ADHD increase the risk of psychosis. The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health,...
Health insurance company Humana is teaming up with health consumer experience firm Accolade to “better provide a differentiated healthcare and benefits experience for consumers,” the companies say. The companies intend to partner in order to offer a well-rounded service package that includes Humana’s provider networks, and...
Last week, Rock Health co-hosted an event with Kaiser Permanente Ventures (KPV) that brought together leaders from Kaiser Permanente and Validic to discuss how to build a successful enterprise-startup partnership. Validic is a KPV portfolio company and has been working with KP for four years...
Physera, an app-based platform for musculoskeletal exercises and remote consultations with physical therapists, has raised $8 million in a Series A round led by BlueCross Blueshield Venture Partners. The company has now raised a total of $10 million. Other funders, either in this round or previously,...
Microsoft has been looking to widen its already substantial footprint in the healthcare space. Recently it has done so by forming a strategic partnership with patient access technology innovator Kyruus. Kyruus’s ProviderMatch solution, which is now used at more than 500 hospitals across the U.S.,...
In January of 2018, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and J.P. Morgan announced that they wanted to address the issues of rising health care costs for their employees and a lack of improvement in care. Now, after rampant speculation about what this partnership could mean for the...
The Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute, a provider of research and education on drug cost management, recently awarded eight organizations for their exceptional contributions across the pharmacy management continuum. These organizations have created highly effective programs in the areas of care management strategies, cost containment, opioid...
The House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee recently discussed hospital and health system consolidation and its effect on the general population. The vast majority of the discussion was critical of mergers among hospitals and other healthcare companies. Although the public is often told that consolidation will...
Amazon recently appointed Nader Kabbani to run its new pharmacy business. Kabbani, a 14-year veteran at Amazon, helped build the Kindle self-publishing platform and has served as the company’s vice president in the logistics business, is now “vice president of consumables, special projects,” according to a...
Virtual healthcare technology has become the standard for healthcare because it enables better and more effective care. The most notable benefit of virtual care to patients is its convenience; rather than having to travel to and from a hospital or clinic to get or give...