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Atrius Health Engages Kyruus to Advance Novel Digital Patient Access Initiatives

Atrius Health, the Northeast’s largest nonprofit independent medical group, has selected Kyruus solutions to enhance patient access across Eastern Massachusetts. Atrius Health is undertaking a series of digital initiatives designed to streamline and modernize access to its network of more than 1,100 providers. In the first step of the process, Atrius Health will work with Kyruus to build enhanced profile information for Atrius Health providers in the KyruusOne provider data management platform, matching Kyruus’s proprietary clinical taxonomy to providers’ clinical areas of focus. The taxonomy maps...

Augmedix Listed Among Largest Greater Bay Area Digital Health Companies

In January of 2020, the San Francisco Business Times compiled a list of the largest Greater Bay Area digital health companies, as ranked by Bay Area employees. Information was obtained from company representatives, and in case of ties, companywide employees was used as secondary ranking criteria. On that list was McKesson Ventures portfolio company Augmedix. Augmedix turns natural clinician-patient conversation into medical documentation, in real time, so that clinicians can focus on what matters most—patient care. Its platform is powered by a combination of proprietary NLP...

Finding your ‘why’: Accolade CEO Raj Singh shares lessons learned from his tech career journey

A desire to change the world helps Accolade CEO Raj Singh make big decisions, but it took time for him to find his why. Singh initially became an engineer to please his mother, who really wanted him to be a doctor. He admits he was a mediocre engineer who reluctantly agreed to help his brother Steve, who was getting his own company, Concur, off the ground. As part of that work, he went to San Francisco, where he met people building apps and services. Although what...

Lightship Closes $20M Series B Financing Led by McKesson Ventures and Define Ventures and Appoints David MacMurchy as CEO

Lightship, a provider of enterprise level, direct-to-patient clinical research solutions, announced a $20 million investment led by McKesson Ventures and Define Ventures with participation from Khosala Ventures, Brook Byers, and Marc Benioff. “We launched Lightship over a year ago to transform the existing research landscape,” said Lightshp Co-founder Alon Krashinsky. “Delivered at enterprise scale, we believe this model will accelerate clinical research by as much as 30 to 50 percent. We are thrilled to be able to work with McKesson Ventures and Define Ventures to continue...

Emory Healthcare Takes Data-Driven Approach to Improving Patient Portal

During a recent webinar, OpenNotes Director of Dissemination John Santa, MD, MPH, spoke with several informatics executives at Atlanta’s Emory Healthcare about their work to improve the health system’s three patient portals. The executives described their efforts to deploy a “portal scorecard” to identify and patch weaknesses in the portals. The scorecard asked health systems to note whether their patient portal has certain features or not. Those features included availability of lab results; notes and visit details; prescription renewals and refills; medication summaries; and viewing, scheduling,...