Guardant Health, based in Redwood, California, has secured $360 million in investor financing, making it the newest horse in the race to use liquid biopsy technology to significantly advance cancer testing and treatment. Guardant will use this round of financing to expand its work both nationally...
Guardant Health, a California-based biotechnology company that sells blood tests to track and detect cancer, recently announced a $360 million round of funding, which has been earmarked to support Guardant’s ambitious goal to test one million patients over the next five years. This massive amount of...
Unforgettable.org, a UK-based dementia start-up, just earned a £2.25M in an investment round led by US-based venture capital firm McKesson Ventures. There are currrently 47 million people in the world living with dementia, 850,000 of which live in the UK. And if the latest calculations prove...
In its first investment outside North America, McKesson Ventures has invested in British start-up Unforgettable.org. Unforgettable.org provides more than 1,000 simple solutions on its website to make dementia sufferers’ lives easier, as well as supporting their caregivers through advice and an online community. As a B-Corporation,...
Becker’s Hospital Review has released a list of 100 leading female figures in the medical technology (medtech) industry. Here are just a few of the women honored on the 2017 list: Kathryn E. Wengel, Worldwide Vice President of Johnson & Johnson Supply Chain and...
On Wednesday, May 24, Evariant’s Gary Druckenmiller, VP and Marketing Practice Lead, and Wake Forest Baptist Health’s Jeff House, AVP of Marketing, will host a webinar on marketing to healthcare patients. Druckenmiller and House will discuss the patient journey, which goes beyond just traditional marketing to...
Outdated healthcare models are quickly becoming a thing of the past, thanks to an increase in startups using blockchain technologies. API firms like PokitDok, which recently announced its partnership with Intel to create a blockchain ledger solution called DokChain, is just one example of how...
Healthcare software platform provider PokitDok has recently introduced a new offering: DokChain, also known as blockchain for healthcare. PokitDok envisions DokChain providing a value-based solution that brings together many aspects of the healthcare process to improve stakeholders’ efficiency and satisfaction. DokChain uses artificial intelligence in the...
Sedgwick has tapped into the expertise of healthcare concierge service Accolade to launch a new whole health solution designed to ensure the physical, emotional, and financial health of clients’ employees and their family members as they navigate workers’ compensation, disability, leave of absence, job accommodations,...
A group of venture capitalists recently sat down at Vator Splash Health 2017 to discuss the latest trends in digital health. The panelists, Dave Schulte of McKesson Ventures, Patrick Chung of Xfund, Rebecca Lynn of Canvas Ventures, Michael Dixon of Sequoia Capital, and Rebecca Woodcock...