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Digital Health Companies Hit a New VC Funding Record in 2018
Venture funding for digital health companies around the world hit an all-time high in 2018. According to Rock Health, health startups in the U.S. won a record $8.1 billion in funding. StartUp Health’s number for investments around the world is $14.6 billion. Compare this to $1.1 billion in 2011, and you can see just...
5 Best Telemedicine Apps For When You Can’t See a Doctor
Telemedicine apps are making it much easier for many people to get help from a doctor. They’re based on a simple idea: most people already have a smartphone or a personal computer, so why not use these devices to speak to a doctor online? The biggest benefit of telemedicine apps is that they give people access to...
Travis Broome Discusses Aledade’s Partnership with Aetna
Aledade and Aetna are partnering to bring population health to patients and greater accountability of total cost to providers, said Travis Broome, vice president of policy at Aledade, in an interview with AJMC. Broome said one of Aledade’s core beliefs is that they want the total patient panel. “If we’re going to...
Today’s entrepreneur: Mike McSherry
Vator recently interviewed Mike McSherry, Founder and CEO of Xealth, a platform that enables clinicians to prescribe digital health tools to patients. Through the Xealth platform, clinicians can find and order digital health tools and programs for patients direct from a health system’s electronic health records...
Inhaler Monitoring Cuts Hospitalization Usage, Study Finds
Patients with emphysema, also known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) whose inhalers were tracked by a monitoring device were less likely to need hospital admission, according to a new study by Propeller Health and the Cleveland Clinic. Electronic monitoring allowed healthcare providers to intervene...
More than half of US seniors would use telehealth, survey finds
According to a new study from American Well, 52 percent of U.S. residents over 65 are willing to use telehealth services. For its Telehealth Index: 2019 Senior Consumer Survey, the company hired market research firm Harris Poll to conduct an online survey of more than 2,000 adults regarding their opinions on...
Healthcare tech company Accolade to double headcount in Seattle with new HQ office
Four years ago, Philadelphia-based Accolade established a second headquarters in Seattle. Now the company has announced that it plans to double its staff and open new offices with room for more than 225 employees. “We’ve outgrown our Convention Center space and need room to grow—and not arm-wrestle over meeting...
Xealth adds Atrium Health, Cleveland Clinic and MemorialCare to close $14m Series A
Digital health prescribing platform Xealth has raised an additional $3 million in Series A financing, bringing the amount raised in this round to $14 million. New investors Atrium Health, Cleveland Clinic, and MemorialCare Innovation Fund join McKesson Ventures, Novartis, Philips, ResMed, Threshold Ventures (formerly...
THCB Spotlight | Chris Gervais, CTO of Kyruus
Matthew Holt of The Health Care Blog recently interviewed Kyruus Chief Technical Officer Chris Gervais about what Kyruus is doing to improve patient access and help health systems match patients to the right providers. When asked what Kyruus does, Gervais said, “We’re focused on patient access, and the part of...
Flip the Script: Prescribing digital care to Duke patients
Thanks to a partnership between Duke Health and Seattle startup Xealth, Duke providers will be able to prescribe apps, videos, educational materials, and other digital health tools to their patients. In the future, the Xealth platform will also enable “contextual awareness,’ which will present relevant content to a...
Press Releases
Evariant Selected as a Finalist in the Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition
Evariant’s cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system has just earned them a spot as one of the Fierce Innovation Awards selected finalists. Evariant is competing in the Population Health Management/Patient Engagement Solutions category. “We are honored...
Everseat Expedites Medical Access and Provider Reimbursements with PokitDok
Everseat has announced that it will make instant insurance eligibility verification a core component of its medical appointment scheduling service. It will do this by teaming up with PokitDok, a company that manages health insurance carrier connectivity, file...
Medidata and SHYFT Analytics Form Commercial Partnership
SHYFT Analytics and Medidata have announced a partnership that will increase access to healthcare data analytics in clinical trials. Using SHYFT’s intelligent analytics and Medidata’s clinical technology platform, the partnership will enable life sciences companies to...
Kyruus Appoints Travis Moore, MBA, RN as Senior Vice President of Market Solutions
Kyruus, an industry leader in patient access and referral management solutions, is focusing on increasing its market reach and growing its product portfolio with the hiring of its newest employee: Travis Moore. Moore will join Kyruus as the Senior Vice President of...
SHYFT Analytics Raises $12.5 Million in New Funding from Global Healthcare and Technology Leaders, led by McKesson Ventures and Medidata Solutions
SHYFT Analytics, a provider of cloud data and analytics for the global life sciences industry, announced that the company has secured $12.5 million in Series B funding from McKesson Ventures, Medidata Solutions, and other healthcare and technology investors. SHYFT...