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Kathleen Bresette named chief revenue officer at RxLightning
RxLightning has hired Kathleen Bresette as its first chief revenue officer. Bresette’s experience in the health care industry is expansive. Most recently, she served as vice president of business development and client strategy at DrFirst Inc. She was also previously the chief revenue officer for Aptus Health (then...
Merck Digital Sciences Studio’s SciMar ONE is already demonstrating early value
Last year, McKesson Ventures joined a group of funders including Merck, Microsoft, the Global Health Innovation Fund, Northpond Ventures, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology to bring to life a “founder-friendly” startup accelerator for companies in the biopharma industry. That accelerator is the Merck Digital...
Lessons from Farzad Mostashari, CEO and Co-Founder of Aledade, on Empowering Independent Primary & Value-Based Care
Aledade CEO and Co-Founder Farzad Mostashari was recently a guest on the Pear Healthcare Playbook podcast. In the talk, Mostashari discusses his journey to healthcare, how he started Aledade, the importance of independent physicians in value-based care, and how Aledade scaled as a profitable health tech company, and...
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 accomplished global healthcare executive with a...
McKesson Ventures’ Dave Schulte Named One of Healthcare’s Top 25 Investors
McKesson Ventures Managing Director Dave Schulte has been recognized by GrowthCap as one of the top 25 healthcare investors for 2023. This award acknowledges healthcare investors who have demonstrated high levels of sustained investment performance and who are recognized as leaders by portfolio company CEOs, industry...
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...
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City of Hope and Reimagine Care Collaborate to Offer 24/7 Monitoring and Support to Bone Marrow Transplant Patients
Reimagine Care has announced a new partnership with City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the U.S. and a leading research center for life-threatening illnesses. Their collaboration aims to introduce a novel care model for...
Inbound Health Secures $30 Million in Funding Led by HealthQuest Capital to Accelerate Growth of At-Home Advanced Care Programs
Inbound Health, a company specializing in enabling health systems to provide acute and post-acute care in patients' homes, has successfully concluded a Series B funding round, securing $30 million in investment. HealthQuest Capital led the funding round, with...
Komodo Health Introduces MapLab, a Comprehensive Healthcare Insights Solution
Komodo Health, a leading healthcare data analytics company, has unveiled MapLab, a groundbreaking technology solution designed to provide comprehensive insights into healthcare data to reduce disease burden at scale. MapLab aims to address the increasing need for...
Evidation Partners With USC on the Understanding America Study to Characterize Healthy Aging Using Wearables and Real-world Data
Evidation, a company focused on improving everyday health, has announced a partnership with USC's Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research to integrate wearable device data into their Understanding America Study (UAS). This collaboration aims to facilitate...
Clinical Ink Enhances Data Management Services, and Announces Senior Hires in Data Management and Data Integrity
Clinical Ink, a leading provider of decentralized clinical trial technology and data services, has recently announced significant enhancements to its data management services. These improvements are accompanied by the addition of new senior hires who will further...