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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...
ORIEN Member Presentations at 2023 ASCO Demonstrate Unique Value of Aster Insights’ Data
Aster Insights has announced its participation as a research partner at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting June 2-6, 2023, in Chicago. An oral presentation and three posters will be presented at this year’s ASCO meeting, utilizing the lifetime patient-consented longitudinal clinicogenomic...
Survey results show unseen burdens for individuals with endometriosis at work and school
Evidation and Myovant Sciences conducted a survey about the lived experiences of people with endometriosis and/or uterine fibroids. The results of that survey show the magnitude of the negative impacts these conditions have on employee and student experiences and quality of life and indicate a need for conversations...
Digital Health Assessments May Improve Parkinson Disease Diagnosis
Results from the 12-month, multicenter, observational study, WATCH-PD, were recently published in the journal Nature. The researchers found significant associations between digital biomarkers with a wearable device and conventional clinical scoring methods used in Parkinson’s disease (PD). Working with Clinical Ink...
Private AI and Replica Analytics announce partnership to tackle data privacy
Replica Analytics, an Aetion company, is partnering with data privacy software solutions developer Private AI. The partnership is a response to an urgent need for a privacy-preserving solution in healthcare and aims to provide a comprehensive solution for healthcare’s data privacy and security challenges. Replica...
Aster Insights Names Dr. Anand Shah as Chief Executive Officer
Aster Insights has announced the appointment of Dr. Anand Shah as chief executive officer, effective immediately. He succeeds Jim Gabriele, who has stepped down from his position. Gabriele and Shah have collaborated closely on a number of strategic, operational, and business development initiatives over the past six...
Komodo Health unveils MapEnhance, a new centralized network of specialty data partners
Komodo Health has recently launched MapEnhance, a feature that leverages a network of specialty data partners connecting into the company’s platform. MapEnhance builds on Komodo’s Healthcare Map, which it characterizes as a de-identified data set on 330 million patients in the United States, by combining it with data...