Earlier this month, GRAIL, Inc., a life sciences company dedicated to finding early detection strategies for cancer patients, announced that it has made progress toward developing a method for identifying multiple types of cancer through blood tests. The announcement was made at the annual American...
The US Department of Health and Human Services has appointed former CEO and founder of home healthcare company Landmark Health Adam Boehler to be the new director and deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Boehler will replace CMMI director Patrick Conway,...
THBC recently announced it will help launch a new interview series hosted by Jessica DaMassa. The show will be about where the healthcare industry is headed, and will be called WTF Health – standing for ‘What’s the Future’ Health. The show leads off with an interview...
Investment money continues to flow during the first quarter after a historic year of digital health funding. In the US, digital health funding reached a record $1.62 billion in Q1, according to Rock Health. Venture funding surpassed last year’s $1.41 billion in the first three months....
Seattle, WA-based personalized health and benefits solutions provider Accolade raised $50 million in a funding round led by existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Carrick Capital Partners, Madrona Venture Group and McKesson Ventures. Cross Creek Advisors and Madera Technology Partners also joined as new investors. Accolade will use...
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...