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Atropos Health Raises $33M To Scale The Automation Of High-Quality, Personalized Real-World Evidence Leveraging Generative AI

On Thursday, May 23, real-world data healthcare technology company Atropos Health announced that it had secured a $33 million Series B financing round, in light of the recent adoption of the company’s GENEVA OS™ platform, which is now being used by a variety of medical practices and researchers across the healthcare industry. The Series B financing was led by WCAS portfolio company Valtruis, as well as other investors including Cencora Ventures, McKesson Ventures, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, and more. With this funding, Atropos is...

World’s Best Digital Health Companies 2024

Newsweek’s list of the World’s Best Digital Health Companies is a collaboration with Statista, and the inaugural rankings were released on April 25, 2024. The goal of the list is to inform potential patients and medical providers on which products, services, and data suppliers are most reliable in a vast industry. The 2024 list includes 400 digital health companies based in 35 countries that are helping to transform health care. The companies are divided into seven distinct industry categories: Data Analytics Diagnostics Health Records Medical Management ...

SSM Health partners with Inbound Health to offer in-home advanced care to patients

Inbound Health and SSM Health have partnered up to offer post-hospital in-home health care services to patients. The SSM Health at Home program – Recovery Care at Home – will apply to certain patients who are ready to be discharged but who still need services traditionally offered in a skilled nursing facility. Phase one of the partnership kicked off at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital – Madison in April 2024. Dr. James Lehman, SSM Health Wisconsin Regional Clinical Program Medical Director commented on the health benefits...

Forbes’ 2024 List of America’s Best Startup Employers

McKesson Ventures portfolio companies Aledade Inc, Lightship, and Xealth were recently named among Forbes magazine’s list of America’s Best Startup Employers. Forbes partnered with third-party research firm Statista to assess over 3,000 companies, primarily examining their reputation, employee satisfaction, and growth. Each company assessed had 50 or more employees, and were also examined for their culture, online engagement, reviews from current and previous employees, reputation on social media, job openings, turnover rate, and much more.  Independent primary care network Aledade Inc. was acknowledged as the #3...

Komodo Health Unveils New Annual Report Illuminating the State of Data Mining in Life Sciences

In a new survey, Komodo Health benchmarked the state of real-world data (RWD) and analytics. The survey, which is the first of its kind, explores the complexities of generating meaningful insights and the challenges life sciences teams face in making forward progress. RWD offers seemingly boundless potential, but Komodo’s survey found that organizations spend an average of seven months or more integrating and cleaning data before it can reliably be used for generating insights. For larger life sciences companies, this time range can be even longer. This...