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Aledade to Create Physician-Led ACO in New Jersey
Bethesda, Maryland-based Aledade, a value-based care network with 15 accountable care organizations (ACOs), is planning to form a primary care physician-led ACO in New Jersey in January 2018. Aledade will collaborate with the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians for the ACO. As part of the partnership, the company...
Binary Fountain and Kyruus Announce Partnership to Enhance Patient Acquisition and Engagement for Health Systems
Binary Foundation and Kyruus will be partnering to help healthcare organizations increase their online patient acquisition and the general patient experience. The partnership will integrate Kyruus’s ProviderMatch™ for Consumers, a web-based search and scheduling solution that can be embedded directly onto healthcare...
Healthcare is Looking to the Tech World for Recruitment
It's no surprise that the healthcare sector is full of executives with health-related backgrounds. A 2011 study of CEOs at the best hospitals in the US found that most CEOs specialized in cardiovascular care, cancer, and digestive disorders. And according to the Harvard Business Review, hospitals run by physicians—as...
Amazon Has a Secret Health Tech Team Called 1492 Working on Medical Records, Virtual Doc Visits
Amazon has started a skunkworks lab headquartered in the company’s Seattle home base to work on healthcare technology innovations. Dubbed 1492, the lab is focusing on both hardware and software projects, including pulling data from existing electronic medical records and telemedicine projects. The idea is to make...
Amazon Sees GRAIL as a Special Opportunity for its Cloud Business
In March 2017, Amazon invested in GRAIL, a health startup that is researching deep sequencing technology to discover early signs of cancer in the blood. At the time, it was unclear as to why Amazon would be interested in a company like this, given the fact that the tech giant doesn’t normally invest in startups in...
Alphabet Invests in Bay Area Biotech Startup, Builds It a New Lab on Verily Campus
Verily, Alphabet’s life sciences spinoff, has invested in Bay Area biotech startup Freenome in a $65 million Series A round. Freenome’s work revolves around detecting early-stage cancer. As part of the investment, Verily constructed a new lab for the company. Freenome’s 40 employees have already moved to the new...
Genetic Testing: Do We Really Want to Know?
In a recent article for the Financial Times, David Crow details how cancer has deeply affected his family: five family members, including his mother, have died of cancer. Hereditary cancer tests like those offered by Myriad Genetics make it possible for individuals like David to analyze their genes for defects known...
Amazon Is Showing Interest In the Healthcare Industry
The possibility of Amazon’s expansion into healthcare has some industry insiders worried. “I get asked all the time what Amazon is doing,” said Tom Rodgers, managing director of McKesson Ventures. “Everyone in the supply chain is nervous. It’s a low-level paranoia that Amazon will drive down profitability.” Amazon...
Google Parent Company Alphabet Releases Glass Enterprise Edition
When Google originally released Google Glass back in 2012, it failed to catch on with individuals. Now, however, the latest Glass Enterprise Edition has found its home in business, particularly in the industrial and healthcare industries. Designed to clip onto glasses or safety goggles, Glass EE allows users to get...
The Referral Management Software Market Offers Huge Growth Opportunities for the Future
A recent report from Technavio found major growth opportunities in the referral growth management software market through 2021. Growth management software has become vital in the healthcare industry, where it helps providers reduce operational expenses and manage the details of keeping hospitals and clinics running...
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