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Guardant Health Raises $360 Million in Race to Create Cancer Blood Tests

Guardant Health, a California-based biotechnology company that sells blood tests to track and detect cancer, recently announced a $360 million round of funding, which has been earmarked to support Guardant’s ambitious goal to test one million patients over the next five years. This massive amount of funding isn’t unheard of these days. Not long ago, Guardant’s fellow cancer detection startup GRAIL announced that it raised $900 million from big-name investors like Bristol-Myers Squibb and Johnson & Johnson. GRAIL also started its clinical trial of breast cancer...

110 women in medtech to know in 2017

Becker’s Hospital Review has released a list of 100 leading female figures in the medical technology (medtech) industry. Here are just a few of the women honored on the 2017 list: Kathryn E. Wengel, Worldwide Vice President of Johnson & Johnson Supply Chain and Chief Supply Chain Officer of Johnson & Johnson (New Brunswick, N.J.).  Wengel is responsible for overseeing the supply chain at one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, Johnson & Johnson. Her responsibilities include planning, sourcing, and managing internal and...

Go Beyond the Acquisition: Wake Forest Baptist Health Leverages Journey Mapping for Improved Patient Engagement

On Wednesday, May 24, Evariant’s Gary Druckenmiller, VP and Marketing Practice Lead, and Wake Forest Baptist Health’s Jeff House, AVP of Marketing, will host a webinar on marketing to healthcare patients. Druckenmiller and House will discuss the patient journey, which goes beyond just traditional marketing to get patients in the door. Providers must follow a patient’s journey not just up until they find a care facility, but throughout their healthcare experience. The resulting patient care map offers healthcare professionals the opportunity to look more closely at...

How Blockchain Could Rebuild the Healthcare Industry

Outdated healthcare models are quickly becoming a thing of the past, thanks to an increase in startups using blockchain technologies. API firms like PokitDok, which recently announced its partnership with Intel to create a blockchain ledger solution called DokChain, is just one example of how cryptocurrency technology is being used to innovate and rebuild the healthcare industry. And it’s not just about the technology. Products like DokChain will allow healthcare professionals to get back to the most important part of their jobs: interacting with patients. The shift...

DokChain by PokitDok—Blockchain for Healthcare

Healthcare software platform provider PokitDok has recently introduced a new offering: DokChain, also known as blockchain for healthcare. PokitDok envisions DokChain providing a value-based solution that brings together many aspects of the healthcare process to improve stakeholders’ efficiency and satisfaction. DokChain uses artificial intelligence in the form of “smart contracts” which connect all healthcare participants to the DokChain and to each other. PokitDok CEO Lisa Maki believes it’s becoming increasingly clear that electronic medical records are no longer the sole repository of healthcare data. In fact,...