Ambulatory infusion center operator Infusion Express today announced completion of a $22.5 million funding round, which will enable the company to accelerate its nationwide expansion. Infusion Express also announced that it will rebrand as IVX Health. McKesson Ventures and Health Velocity Capital co-led the funding round,...
Patient loyalty and outreach have been, and continue to be, key priorities for health care organizations. However, as the industry shifts from fee-for-service to value-based payment models, and patients become more like consumers, the path for achieving those goals has changed. John Ward, the senior vice...
Kyruus, a leader in providing search and scheduling solutions for health systems, announced that OHSU in Portland, Oregon, a nationally distinguished research organization, will use the Kyruus ProviderMatch® platform to enhance patient access to providers and services across the OHSU health system. OHSU is building a...
Health and lifestyle journalist Bonnie Estridge has been a reporter all of her adult life, and that hasn’t stopped since she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In a recent article she wrote for London’s Daily Mail, she lamented that tasks like remembering passwords have gone...
Walgreens is expanding the services available on its Walgreens Find Care digital platform to include chronic care management. The company is now offering connected devices and digital therapeutic solutions for asthma and COPD management from Propeller Health, and diabetes management from Dexcom on the platform. Since...
Health systems are transitioning toward a value-based model of care, and so too must their marketing. Rather than just highlighting available services, health system marketers must also promote improved patient outcomes. Here, according to Evariant, are five data-driven, digitally minded trends that will help hospital...
Chronic conditions like diabetes require constant monitoring between regularly scheduled doctor visits. Livongo, the first digital health company to go public after a years-long drought, is hoping to prove that technology can help better manage costly chronic illnesses. The platform analyzes data to build a picture...
As the field of medicine advances, new connections leading to the diagnosis of rare illnesses are being made. Komodo Health’s artificial intelligence algorithms are sifting through a decade of data about health conditions across several hundred million Americans, many scenarios that once were the stuff...
Large companies like Lyft, Pinterest, and Uber have made big-splash IPOs in 2019, and Slack and Airbnb are expected to join them. But behind the headline-making companies is a wave of digital health startups that have been transforming the health industry for close to a...
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, author of the book HealthConsuming, recently wrote on the Health Populi website about how we could “Amazon-ize” health care to increase its benefit to consumers. In the U.S., patients have been morphing into health care consumers—a trend that has been accelerated by the growth...