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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...
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...
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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...
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...