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Augmedix Bangladesh plans to create 2000 jobs by 2021

McKesson Ventures portfolio company Augmedix provides a technology-enabled documentation service for health systems and doctors using Google Glass and remote scribes to take notes during doctor visits, has announced that it plans to create thousands of new jobs in Bangladesh. Augmedix Bangladesh recently announced its goal...

AMA, AHIP, and Others Oppose Upside-Only ACO Changes for MSSP

The news of proposed changes to accountable care organizations’ financial risk has gotten people all over the healthcare field in the U.S. involved in the discussion. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has recently come out with a proposal to limit the amount of...

The Last Company You Would Expect Is Reinventing Health Benefits

It’s hard to think of a business less likely to transform healthcare than America’s most hated company, Comcast. But they are, and in doing so, their healthcare costs have stayed nearly flat—increasing by about 1 percent a year versus 3 percent per year, the national...

The evolution of the healthcare CRM

Healthcare marketing has changed quite a bit over the last decade. Patients are now called “consumers,” and they’re more informed than ever. They also expect highly personalized care. Because of this, healthcare marketing departments need to evolve, too. Enter the healthcare customer relationship management (HCRM) platform....

New report shares details about the digital therapeutics industry

A new market report has been released about the state of the global digital therapeutics industry. The report, released by Deep Research Reports, profiles 10 companies, including McKesson Ventures portfolio company Propeller Health. The report, “Global Digital Therapeutics Industry: 2018 Market Report,” contains research on major...

ACOs using medical home physicians save money, yield higher quality, report finds

The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) and the Robert Graham Center recently released their 2018 Evidence Report. In it, the organization found that Medicare accountable care organizations (ACOs) with a higher proportion of physicians who have patient-centered medical home (PCMH) experience tend to generate more...

CoxHealth Taps Kyruus to Optimize Patient-Provider Matching to Improve Patient Experience

Springfield, Missouri-based health system CoxHealth has chosen Kyruus’s ProviderMatch for Access Centers and ProviderMatch for Consumers software to optimize patient-provider matching and improve patients’ overall experience when accessing care at the system. CoxHealth was looking for software to enhance patients’ experience from their first contact, whether...