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Lessons from Farzad Mostashari, CEO and Co-Founder of Aledade, on Empowering Independent Primary & Value-Based Care

Aledade CEO and Co-Founder Farzad Mostashari was recently a guest on the Pear Healthcare Playbook podcast. In the talk, Mostashari discusses his journey to healthcare, how he started Aledade, the importance of independent physicians in value-based care, and how Aledade scaled as a profitable health tech company, and goes on to share some advice for founders of startups. Mostashari’s journey into medicine began when during his childhood, his father fell ill and required hospitalization. He got his MD from the Yale School of Medicine, and a...

Real-Time Clinical Trial Monitoring at Clinical ink

Clinical Ink Senior Director Enterprise Architecture Alex Doan recently wrote a case study about how the company chose to use the Rockset analytics platform to improve query speed and other performance metrics. He began by explaining Clinical Ink, which he described as a suite of software used in over a thousand clinical trials to streamline the data collection and management process, with the goal of improving the efficiency and accuracy of trials. The company’s cloud-based electronic data capture system enables clinical trial data from more than...

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 Health, in October of 2022. Although the company was originally designed to take care of COVID patients, it has already diversified its services to new patient populations including people with chronic illnesses like heart failure, asthma, COPD, and kidney failure; and to patients...

‘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 contact with later-stage startups that had great science and technology that could have a big impact on patients. Unfortunately, that tech was largely unusable due to regulatory or security issues. “That got me thinking about how we could...

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 and accommodations that advance equity for folks with endometriosis and/or uterine fibroids. “Millions suffer silently from endometriosis and uterine fibroids. Both diseases have excruciating impacts and insidious, yet outsized, effects in everyday life,” said Evidation Co-Founder and CEO...