Landmark Health, based in California, is planning its entrance into the North Carolina market through a new partnership with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. The news came Thursday from Jessica Diaz, senior director of brand and marketing at Landmark. “We’re a risk-based provider...
Amazon is entering the healthcare business. While there is great opportunity for success as it becomes among the first tech giant to enter the industry, it also means Amazon must tread cautiously. Success or failure could hinge on how the company chooses to manage patient...
Partners HealthCare has expanded its use of the Kyruus ProviderMatch™ suite of patient access solutions. Kyruus, a McKesson Ventures portfolio company, is a leading provider of enterprise software solutions that enable hospitals and health systems to optimize the patient experience across all channels of patient access. Partners...
Vator recently held the first of four events centered around the advances in healthcare. The first panel featured venture capitalists who are investing heavily in healthcare technologies, including McKesson Ventures’ Managing Director Dave Schulte. On the question of what the panelists see as driving the future...
At Dignity Health, dozens of physicians are donning Google Glass as part of their new daily routines. Dignity has adopted the technology through Augmedix’s remote scribe service, saving physicians up to 15 hours per week. That translates to about one to two-and-a-half hours per day. “Physicans...
Truveris, a McKesson Ventures portfolio company, has announced that it has elected Sally Welborn to its board of directors. Welborn brings 30+ years of industry experience to Truveris, which is working to provide everyone with access to affordable prescription medication. Welborn expressed her support of Truveris’s...
Medical startups need to communicate their progress well, or they set themselves up for failure. Theranos Inc. is the most recent example of how negligence can carry big consequences. Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs attribute the company’s downfall to a failure to be transparent in dealings...
Accountable care organization (ACO) company Aledade, Inc. and health insurer Horizon Healthcare Services Inc. just announced a new value-based care collaboration. The partnership’s goal is to deliver coordinated care to more than 20,000 commercially-insured and Medicare Advantage patients, the ultimate object being to lower costs while...
Today Avizia announced a new partnership with athenahelath, Inc. as part of the ‘More Disruption Please’ (MDP) program. The move means that Avizia will now be a part of the athenahealth Marketplace, making the company available to more than 111,000 healthcare providers. It also means...
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