Press Releases
McKesson Ventures Invests as Clinical Ink Debuts Lunexis™ ePRO+ Solution
Clinical Ink, a global clinical trial technology company, today announced an investment from McKesson Ventures, along with its significantly enhanced electronic patient reported outcome (ePRO) module. “McKesson Ventures is excited to invest in Clinical Ink, a market leader in clinical trial enablement technology,”...
Michelle Snyder, Digital Health Veteran, Joins McKesson Ventures
McKesson Ventures has hired Michelle Snyder as its newest investment partner. Snyder, a mobile health pioneer, is known for her leadership and guidance in building Epocrates, one of the healthcare industry’s first successful mobile health companies. She brings more than 25 years of healthcare experience to the...
Baptist Health Engages Kyruus to Enable Next-Generation Online Patient Access Experience
Kyruus announced that Baptist Health, the largest nonprofit health system in Kentucky, has engaged the company to help elevate its digital access experience for consumers. The health system will collaborate with Kyruus to modernize the care search experience for consumers on the Baptist Health website and enable them...
IVX Health Completes Acquisition of Precision Healthcare
IVX Health, a national provider of infusion and injection therapy for patients with complex chronic conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and Crohn’s disease, announced its acquisition of Precision Healthcare. Precision operates 12 infusion centers across Tennessee and northern Arkansas. The...
Vineti Extends Series C Funding Round to $68M with an Expanded Investor Coalition
Vineti, a leading digital platform of record for personalized therapeutics, announced the closing of a $33 million extension to its Series C financing round. The new financing will support further expansion of the company’s Personalized Therapy Management (PTM)® platform for personalized and high-value advanced...
Augmedix Closes $25 Million Private Placement
Remote medical documentation and live clinical support services provider Augmedix has closed a $25 million private placement financing and completed a reverse merger with Malo Holdings Corp. “We’re thrilled to complete this financing, which we believe puts Augmedix on the path of accelerated expansion, and will...
Amwell Expands Partnership with Tyto Care to Extend Healthcare at Home
Amwell has expanded its partnership with Tyto Care, the healthcare industry’s first all-in-one modular device and examination platform for AI-powered, on-demand, remote medical exams. The two companies will introduce exclusive integrations and newly designed workflows and tools to enhance the ability for providers...
McKesson Ventures Grows Leadership Team with New Partner Promotions
McKesson Ventures has expanded its leadership team, promoting Jennifer Carter and Carrie Hurwitz Williams to partners in the organization. Their promotions reflect McKesson Ventures’ commitment to an apprentice model of mentoring and promoting from within. Carter brings more than 20 years of healthcare experience,...
Cleveland Clinic Joins Interventional Study Using GRAIL’s Multi-Cancer Early Detection Test to Help Guide Clinical Care
Cancer detection company GRAIL has announced that Cleveland Clinic has joined GRAIL’s PATHFINDER Study, a prospective, multi-cancer clinical study that is evaluating the implementation of Galleri™, an investigational multi-cancer early detection blood test, into clinical practice for the first time. Today, most...
Komodo Health Lauded by Frost & Sullivan for Empowering Healthcare Stakeholders with Dynamic Real-world Evidence Solutions
Based on its recent analysis of the North American real-world evidence (RWE) solutions market in healthcare, Frost & Sullivan has recognized Komodo Health with the 2020 North American Company of the Year award. Komodo Health’s comprehensive real-time Healthcare Map platform facilitates access to unified,...
Other News
Rehumanizing Doctor-Patient Relationships with Manny Krakaris, CEO, Augmedix
In a recent episode of the Cowen Insights podcast, Cowen’s healthcare technology analyst, Charles Rhyee, spoke with Augmedix CEO Manny Krakaris. They discussed the administrative burden of medical note documentation on providers today and how Augmedix’s offerings can...
Covid and Big Tech are pushing Augmented Reality into modern healthcare
There is an Augmented Reality revolution happening in healthcare. You can see it at places like Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, England, where a pediatric heart surgeon recently used a pair of Microsoft HoloLens 2 smart glasses to transmit the view of the...
Drive to end cancer could pioneer diagnostic technology
GRAIL, the developer of multi-cancer early detection test Galleri, is building on its earlier commercial partnership with the UK’s National Health Service. That partnership aims to confirm Galleri’s clinical and economic performance in the UK healthcare system, which...
Will digital health funding boom or bust? 5 experts weigh in
Rock Health CEO Bill Evans was one of five experts interviewed by Health Evolution about whether or not investment in the digital health sector will continue at its current pace over the years to come. In addition to asking about the pace of investment, the experts...
Augmedix aiming to ‘re-humainze health care’ with its virtual medical documentation service
Proactive Investments recently interviewed Augmedix CEO Manny Krakaris about what his company does and how the coronavirus pandemic has affected his business. “Augmedix’ mission is really to re-humanize healthcare,” Krakaris said. “What we mean by that is allowing...