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Komodo Health Secures $50 Million in Series C Funding Led by Andreessen Horowitz, Joined by Oak HC/FT

Komodo Health recently announced $50 million in Series C funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Oak HC/FT also joined the round, along with previous investors including IA Ventures and Felicis Ventures. The funding will allow the company to create new software for life sciences, payers, advocacy groups, and provider organizations while accelerating the expansion of its Healthcare Map, the industry’s largest real-time view into health care journeys in the U.S. “Our platform is designed to drive better health outcomes for patients by harnessing the power of more...

Aetion-HealthVerity partnership: More data sources, faster evidence generation

Aetion and HealthVerity have announced a new partnership to streamline and accelerate access to HealthVerity’s expansive and diverse data sources and data preparation services for research on the Aetion Evidence Platform. Combining HealthVerity’s real-world data sources with Aetion’s real-world evidence platform will dramatically speed time to insight for regulatory-grade, real-world evidence studies. The HealthVerity Marketplace offers 60 unique health care data sets with data for more than 330 million patients, including medical claims, electronic medical records, lab results, pharmacy, and imaging, which HealthVerity prepares for analysis through...

Healthgrades Acquires Evariant

Healthgrades, a resource that connects consumers, physicians, and health systems, today announced it has acquired healthcare consumer and physician engagement company Evariant. With the combination of these two companies, Healthgrades says it will offer the most comprehensive end-to-end engagement platform in the health care industry. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Evariant shareholders will retain a minority stake in the combined company and will have a representative on the Board of Directors. Healthgrades is a Vestar Capital Partners portfolio company. “Healthgrades is a pioneer in health...

Dr. Davin Lundquist Joins Augmedix as Chief Medical Officer

Medical note automation platform creator Augmedix has announced that Dr. Davin Lundquist will be joining the company as its chief medical officer. In his new role, Dr. Lundquist will drive rapid technological innovation across Augmedix’s product development teams while maintaining clinical excellence and tight alignment with the fast-changing U.S. health care landscape. Dr. Lundquist will be tasked with introducing next-generation natural language processing automation modules into the Augmedix workflow and advancing Augmedix’s real-time support systems to prompt doctors to close care gaps and tend to other...

Will ‘Digital-First’ Health Plans Usher in Telehealth At-Scale? | Danielle Russella, American Well

Jessica DaMassa of WTF Health interviewed American Well President and GM of Health Plan Solutions Danielle Russella at HLTH 2019. Russella weighed in on a number of topics including how “digital-first” health plans will impact telehealth, the state of play of telehealth/health plan relations, and rumors of an IPO. First, Russella says that health plans are in American Well’s roots. But “it’s been an uphill battle, not because health plans didn’t think this was another mode of delivering care, but provider adoption, consumer adoption, rights services...