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Koneksa Announces Partnership with Beacon Biosignals for Clinical Trials in Sleep and Neurologic Disorders Using EEG Biomarkers
Koneksa has announced a partnership with Beacon Biosignals, a computational neurodiagnostics company, to launch a clinical trial to investigate the integration of Beacon’s at-home electroencephalogram (EEG) into the Koneksa Neuroscience Solution Toolkit. The Beacon platform unlocks longitudinal, at-home EEG...
Xealth Is Honored In 25th Anniversary Digital Health Awards®
McKesson Ventures portfolio company Xealth was selected as a winner in the 25th anniversary Digital Health Awards® program. This competition recognizes the best digital health resources. “Shaping Your Digital Health Future” received a Gold Award for Connected Digital Health: Consumer Directed Digital Health Programs....
Real-Time Clinical Trial Monitoring at Clinical ink
Clinical Ink Senior Director Enterprise Architecture Alex Doan recently wrote a case study about how the company chose to use the Rockset analytics platform to improve query speed and other performance metrics. He began by explaining Clinical Ink, which he described as a suite of software used in over a thousand...
McKesson Ventures’ Carrie Williams Speaks at 2023 DHIS Conference
McKesson Ventures Vice President & Partner Carrie Williams spoke at the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit, East Coast, which took place June 6 and 7, 2023, in Boston. Williams participated in a panel discussion titled “Beyond the Clinic: Digital & Home-Based Models to Close Gaps, Improve Outcomes &...
RxLightning Closes $17.5M Series A to Accelerate Growth and Remove Barriers to Essential Specialty Medications
McKesson Ventures has participated in a $17.5 million Series A round for RxLightning, a platform for streamlining access and affordability for specialty medications. This brings the total the company has raised since its inception to $20.5 million. With RxLightning, healthcare providers—from those practicing at...
Aster Insights Announces that The University of Kansas Cancer Center will join the Oncology Research Information Network (ORIEN)
Aster Insights, a provider of technology-enabled data and analytics solutions for oncology discovery, has announced that The University of Kansas Cancer Center will join its Oncology Research Information Exchange Network (ORIEN). The KU Cancer Center is the latest NCI-designated cancer center to join ORIEN, which is...
Inbound Health launches at-home post-surgery care
Inbound Health, a company that enables health systems and health plans to offer hospital-at-home and skilled-nursing-at-home programs, has announced that it is expanding its services to include general surgery, including orthopedics, bariatrics, and hernia. Inbound Health spun out of its parent company, Allina...
‘A Startup Supporting Startups’: Inside Merck Digital Sciences Studio
Last year, McKesson Ventures joined Merck, Microsoft, the Global Health Innovation Fund, Northland Ventures, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology to create the Merck Digital Sciences Studio. The studio was inspired by the work of Geof Hannigan, a computational biologist at Merck. In his work, he often had...
ORIEN Member Presentations at 2023 ASCO Demonstrate Unique Value of Aster Insights’ Data
Aster Insights has announced its participation as a research partner at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting June 2-6, 2023, in Chicago. An oral presentation and three posters will be presented at this year’s ASCO meeting, utilizing the lifetime patient-consented longitudinal clinicogenomic...
Survey results show unseen burdens for individuals with endometriosis at work and school
Evidation and Myovant Sciences conducted a survey about the lived experiences of people with endometriosis and/or uterine fibroids. The results of that survey show the magnitude of the negative impacts these conditions have on employee and student experiences and quality of life and indicate a need for conversations...
Press Releases
Komodo Health Is Named to the 2023 Forbes Cloud 100
Komodo Health, a technology company founded in 2014, was announced on Tuesday as one of the Forbes 2023 Cloud 100. The list, published by Forbes and in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures, highlights the industry leaders in cloud...
Reimagine Care and Memorial Hermann Health System Partner to Advance Cancer Care at Home
On Tuesday, July 25, Reimagine Care – the nation’s top cancer care service provider for at-home treatment – announced a brand-new partnership with Memorial Hermann Health System, based out of Houston, TX. The partnership will allow the companies to offer 24/7 care via...
Montage Health Selects Xealth to Drive Digital Health Strategy
Montage Health, a California-based non-profit network, announced on Tuesday that it has chosen the Xealth digital health platform as its new primary medical system. Known for its prominent role in the digital health space, Xealth provides a variety of services to its...
Reimagine Care Welcomes Dan Nardi, Healthcare Industry Leader, as New CEO
Reimagine Care has announced that Dan Nardi will serve as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective July 10, 2023. Nardi replaces co-founder Dr. Aaron Gerber as CEO. Previously, Nardi served as Carrum Health’s Chief Operating Officer and Livongo’s Vice President of...
Clinical ink Appoints Andrew Kraus as Chief Technology Officer
Clinical Ink, a global life science technology company, has announced the appointment of Andrew Kraus as chief technology officer. In this role, Kraus will lead the development of the company’s expanding technology portfolio to support clinical trials. Kraus is an...