Press Releases
Truveris Appoints Sally Welborn, former head of Walmart Global Benefits to Board of Directors
Truveris, a McKesson Ventures portfolio company, has announced that it has elected Sally Welborn to its board of directors. Welborn brings 30+ years of industry experience to Truveris, which is working to provide everyone with access to affordable prescription medication. Welborn expressed her support of Truveris’s...
Avizia Partners with athenahealth’s ‘More Disruption, Please’ Program to Enable System-Wide Telehealth Strategies
Today Avizia announced a new partnership with athenahelath, Inc. as part of the ‘More Disruption Please’ (MDP) program. The move means that Avizia will now be a part of the athenahealth Marketplace, making the company available to more than 111,000 healthcare providers. It also means Avizia’s innovative telehealth...
Avizia TeleStroke Workflow Update Provides Faster Access to More Effective Treatment
Avizia recently announced availability of an updated telestroke workflow integrated into their system-wide powering of telehealth. The process allows care teams to collaborate quickly and effectively by streamlining decision-making and closing communications gaps. It reflects the company’s record of consistently...
Global Augmented and Virtual Reality in Healthcare Market 2017-2023
A new report from Research and Markets values the augmented and virtual reality in healthcare market at a whopping $769.2 million in 2017. The report predicts that by 2023, just five years from now, it will be valued at nearly $5 billion. Key reasons for the increased value of this market include increasing use of...
Virtual Care Market Growth with Worldwide Industry Analysis Research Report 2021
Virtual care continues to grow in importance and prevalence in the healthcare industry. Patients and healthcare organizations alike are becoming more exposed to virtual care offerings such as telemedicine, online scheduling, and better electronic health record (EHR) management. Key players in the virtual healthcare...
McKesson Ventures Donates $10,000 to Alzheimer’s Association
McKesson Ventures has donated $10,000 to the Alzheimer’s Association on behalf of ClearCare, a former portfolio company. Moving forward, McKesson Ventures intends to donate a portion of its financial returns from any positive exit to a charitable organization of that portfolio’s choosing, a move that demonstrates the...
Amino Seamlessly Drives Greater Healthcare Savings for Millions of Americans, with New Health Savings Accounts
Digital health company Amino has announced that it will be adding a health savings account (HSA) to its list of features for customers. Amino currently offers a “find care” service, which helps connect people with in-network physicians and facilities, as well as allowing them to gather cost estimates before care is...
VC-backed GRAIL Appoints Cook as CEO
GRAIL, Inc., a McKesson Ventures portfolio company whose mission is to detect cancer early when it can be cured, announced on December 14th the appointment of Jennifer Cook as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 2nd, 2018. Bill Rastetter, the interim CEO since August 2017, will continue as the chairman of the...
McKesson Ventures Expands Investment Team
In order to further its mission of partnering with exceptional healthcare entrepreneurs, McKesson Ventures has added two new members to its investment team: Carrie Hurwitz Williams as Principal and Irem Mertol as Director. “We are pleased to welcome both Carrie and Irem to the McKesson Ventures team,” said Tom...
Evariant Announces New Engagement Center Solution to Enable Smarter Patient Engagement and Retention
Healthcare CRM data analytics platform Evariant announced today that it is launching a new Evariant Engagement Center. This product enables call center agents to deliver on-the-fly, highly personalized patient experiences resulting in smarter patient engagement, increased patient acquisition and retention, and...
Other News
9 healthcare outfits named among Forbes’s ‘top AI companies to watch’ in 2021
Forbes has released its third annual AI 50, a list of private, promising North American companies that are using artificial intelligence in ways that are fundamental to their operations, and McKesson Ventures portfolio company Komodo Health is among them. To be...
Michelle Snyder Brings a Creative Spirit to Marketing and Investing
Michelle Snyder is McKesson Ventures’ newest partner, having joined the firm in late 2020. But Snyder is a digital health veteran and she’s seen innovation in the industry from every angle, from marketing to mentoring to investing. In a recent StartUp Health Fireside...
Covid-19 serves as catalyst for effort to diversity clinical trial enrollment
McKesson Ventures Vice President and Partner Carrie Williams was a speaker on a panel at MedCity’s INVEST conference, April 22, 2021. She and the other panelists, Allison Kalloo, founder and president of Clinical Ambassador; Doug Langa, executive vice president of...
How Top Health Systems are Scaling COVID-19 Vaccine Scheduling with Kyruus
Kyruus Chief Technology Officer Chris Gervais recently wrote on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog about how Kyruus has been able to help health systems scale COVID-19 vaccination scheduling thanks to Kyruus and AWS technology. Knowing they needed a way to handle the...
How do providers strike the right balance between in-person care and telehealth?
In a recent Healthcare IT News article, Aledade Chief Policy Officer and Chief Commercial Officer Sean Cavanaugh offered his expert insight into virtual care after the pandemic ends. During the peak of the pandemic, up to 50 percent of all primary care visits were...