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Matternet Tests Longest Drone Delivery Route Between Hospitals and Labs in Switzerland
Matternet has begun test operations on a 5-kilometer (3-mile) beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone delivery route over Zurich, Switzerland. This is the longest urban drone delivery route ever, and it still takes only seven minutes for drones to go from one facility to the other—a much shorter time than it would...
Matternet Set to Produce M2 Delivery Drones in the US After Receiving FAA Greenlight
Matternet’s groundbreaking FAA Type Certification for its M2 drone in September of 2022 was followed quickly by being granted a Production Certificate for the craft by the US Federal Aviation Administration. With the Production Certificate, Matternet can now begin mass production of its M2 drone at its factory in...
Running Through Walls: Thinking Long Term is the Greatest Gift
In a recent Venrock podcast, Aledade Founder and CEO Farzad Mostashari spoke about how to heighten the efficiency and effectiveness of patient care, specifically preventative care. He discusses how Aledade is working to help patients when average primary care practices can’t and the new launch of Aledade Care...
Reimagine Care and The Center for Cancer & Blood Disorders Announce Partnership
Reimagine Care announced that it has partnered with The Center for Cancer & Blood Disorders (CCBD), one of the country’s most respected cancer centers, to offer its home-based supportive care and symptom management program to patients in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Thousands of CCBD patients will have access to...
Carrum Health, GRAIL strike up partnership to offer cancer test to employers
Cancer has managed to be the most expensive condition increasing employers’ costs. Seeing this issue as an opportunity to collaborate Carrum Health and GRAIL have teamed up to create a solution. Carrum Health is a value-based platform that helps employers and employees find easy access to Centers of Excellence. The...
How The Healthcare Ecosystem Can Remove Barriers to Precision Health
CancerIQ CEO and Founder Feyi Ayodele recently shared some ideas about how to bring equity to precision health. “We are living in an era of tremendous progress against cancer,” Ayodele writes. Tools such as immunotherapy and multicancer early detection tests have given doctors the best tools to fight disease since...
Patients With Alzheimer Disease Negatively Impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this interview, the second of a two-part series, Tabby Khan, MD, MPH, medical director at Komodo Health, discusses the effect the COVID-19 pandemic has had on patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). She also talks about how telehealth helped AD patients get care during the pandemic and about current research in...
Modern Healthcare Recognizes IVX Health in its 2022 Best Places to Work in Healthcare List
For the fourth consecutive year, IVX Health has been recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare in 2022. This annual program identifies and honors 150 outstanding companies and organizations in the healthcare industry nationwide, and IVX Health was ranked No. 20 overall in one of...
Kyruus targets medical group market with acquisition of Epion Health
Kyruus is acquiring patient engagement platform Epion Health. The two companies will reach more than 500 health systems and medical groups, giving them access to provider search, patient check-in, payment collection, scheduling, and more. “Epion Health is a trusted partner to hundreds of health systems and medical...
Lightship® and Acclinate Announce Partnership to Increase Access to Clinical Trials for Diverse Populations
Lightship is teaming up with digital health company Acclinate to increase access to and engagement of diverse participants in a decentralized neurology clinical trial for a large pharmaceutical company. Beyond the neurology trial, the partnership aims to increase access and engagement in clinical trials for...
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Koneksa Announces Partnership with Beacon Biosignals for Clinical Trials in Sleep and Neurologic Disorders Using EEG Biomarkers
Koneksa has announced a partnership with Beacon Biosignals, a computational neurodiagnostics company, to launch a clinical trial to investigate the integration of Beacon’s at-home electroencephalogram (EEG) into the Koneksa Neuroscience Solution Toolkit. The Beacon...
Xealth Is Honored In 25th Anniversary Digital Health Awards®
McKesson Ventures portfolio company Xealth was selected as a winner in the 25th anniversary Digital Health Awards® program. This competition recognizes the best digital health resources. “Shaping Your Digital Health Future” received a Gold Award for Connected Digital...
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,...
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...
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...