Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Ohio announced the rollout of a new program to help improve health outcomes for Ohio consumers enrolled in Anthem’s Medicare Advantage health plans who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In partnership with Propeller Health, Anthem will provide small...
GRAIL Inc. recently announced the appointment of Hal Barron, M.D., and Hans Bishop to its Board of Directors. Hal Barron is globally recognized for his clinical and scientific leadership. Currently he is the Chief Scientific Officer and President of R&D at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Before he took...
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...
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...
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...
The average American spends about $9,000 on healthcare each year, with a good $1,000 of that for services paid out of pocket. And as healthcare costs and health insurance deductibles keep rising, the consumer is only going to end up paying more for less. The...
GRAIL, a company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured, recently announced the appointment of several key leaders as it continues to build its executive team. George Golumbeski has been appointed as President and will also serve on GRAIL’s Board...
Ryan Frazine, MD, an independent primary care physician who operates his own practice in Paducah, Kentucky, understands the importance of remaining competitive in an environment dominated by hospital-based primary care doctors and specialists. In order to do so, he and a number of other independent...
A recent report from Rock Health revealed that investors put $3.4 billion into digital health companies between January 1 and June 30, 2018, nearly matching last year’s record $3.5 billion during the first half of 2017. The average deal size was $17.9 million, the highest...
Seattle Business magazine unveiled its 2018 list of the 100 best companies to work for in 2018. McKesson Ventures portfolio company Accolade ranked #19 in the list of businesses with headquarters outside Washington state. Employees remarked that the leadership of the rapidly growing company “is...