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Venture Investors: Theranos’s Fall Underscores Need for Transparency

Medical startups need to communicate their progress well, or they set themselves up for failure. Theranos Inc. is the most recent example of how negligence can carry big consequences. Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs attribute the company’s downfall to a failure to be transparent in dealings...

Aledade, Horizon BCBS J.J., Form Value-Based Care Partnership

Accountable care organization (ACO) company Aledade, Inc. and health insurer Horizon Healthcare Services Inc. just announced a new value-based care collaboration. The partnership’s goal is to deliver coordinated care to more than 20,000 commercially-insured and Medicare Advantage patients, the ultimate object being to lower costs while...

Silence is golden: This sales team measures success by how much they *don’t* talk

SHYFT Analytics is a software-as-a-service company dedicated to helping salespeople thrive in bio and life science industries. It provides ongoing training and education for clients and blends industry and company-specific data with demographics to deliver market insights to inform client decisions around drug launches, healthcare...

Circulating Tumor Cell, Cell Free DNA and Exosome/Microvesicle Cancer Diagnostics

A new report from Healthcare Market Research Reports has been published that explores the market potential related to diagnostic, monitoring, and screening test opportunities for circulating tumor cell, cell-free DNA, and exosome/microvesicle cancer diagnostics by lung, breast, colorectal, prostate, and other cancers. The report projections...

Avizia TeleStroke Workflow Update Provides Faster Access to More Effective Treatment

Avizia recently announced availability of an updated telestroke workflow integrated into their system-wide powering of telehealth. The process allows care teams to collaborate quickly and effectively by streamlining decision-making and closing communications gaps. It reflects the company’s record of consistently developing innovative technology solutions for medical...

Avizia Advocates for Telehealth Awareness

Though telehealth isn’t widely utilized by consumers, those who do use it like the service. Telehealth provider Avizia has been looking into the issue after the publication of a 2017 report called "Closing the Telehealth Gap,” developed with insight from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. In their own research, Avizia...

New CEO succeeds founder at one of KC’s fastest growing companies

Doug Ghertner is replacing Don Peterson as the new CEO of Infusion Express. Peterson is enthusiastic about Ghertner’s appointment, saying, “We’re lucky we found him” and that Ghertner fills “a void in my experience and know-how in industry that I couldn’t have filled on my...