Press Releases
SHYFT Analytics Appoints Joseph Tyers to Chief Revenue Officer
Leading cloud analytics company SHYFT announced today that Joseph Tyers will be its new Chief Revenue Officer. Tyers’ previous experience as Senior Vice President of Sales, Value Management and Commercial Operations at Medidata will provide SHYFT with a wealth of knowledge on quickly scaling life science technology...
Piedmont Healthcare Selects Kyruus’ Suite of Patient-Provider Matching Solutions
Piedmont Healthcare, a nonprofit healthcare organization located in Georgia that serves nearly two million people, has selected Kyruus’ ProviderMatch™ Product Suite to make its system more user-friendly and accessible to patients. Piedmont Healthcare, which operates a total of seven hospitals, chose the...
Saint Thomas Health Offers Virtual Care Clinic Anytime, Anywhere in Tennessee
Saint Thomas Health has partnered with telemedicine company Carena to offer virtual health care that is accessible and affordable for everyone. The newly introduced service—called Saint Thomas Health On Demand—is available 24/7. A flat fee of $49 allows patients to meet with doctors and receive medical diagnoses,...
Physician Productivity Startup Augmedix Secures $23 Million
Augmedix, a leader in smartglass-based physician productivity platforms, has announced its recent acquisition of $23 million in funding from McKesson Ventures and OrbiMed. Augmedix’s services are based on the idea of increasing the amount of time physicians have to interact directly with patient by decreasing the...
UAB Medicine Selects Kyruus for Patient-Provider Matching and Provider Data Management
On Monday, Kyruus added UAB Medicine to its long list of prestigious clientele. UAB Medicine, one of the largest academic medical centers in the U.S., will be implementing two new programs designed by Kyruus. The first program, called ProviderMatchTM for Access Centers, can be used as a focal point for patient access...
Virginia Mason Partners with Carena to Provide Insurance Billing for Virtual Clinic Visits
Virtual healthcare provider Carena announced a partnership with Virginia Mason Health System to offer insurance billing to Virginia Mason Virtual Care Clinic patients insured by Regence BlueShield. Carena is Virginia Mason’s clinical and technology partner, powering its Virtual Care Clinic. The extension of the...
Everseat Expedites Medical Access and Provider Reimbursements with PokitDok
Everseat recently announced that it will make instant insurance eligibility verification a core component of its scheduling service. It will do this by incorporating the PokitDok Eligibility Application Programming Interface into its software. “PokitDok is the magic bullet behind Everseat’s latest strategy for...
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Implements Kyruus ProviderMatch to Optimize Patient Access
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center has selected Kyruus ProviderMatch™ to enhance its patient-provider matching and appointment access. Kyruus is a leader in providing search and scheduling solutions for the medical industry. Wexner Medical Center, a seven-hospital system, will use ProviderMatch to help...
St. Elizabeth Healthcare Selects Evariant to Increase Patient Engagement and Physician Alignment
Yesterday, news broke that St. Elizabeth Healthcare will be integrating Evariant’s Marketing (CRM) solution and Physician (PRM) solution into its system. Evariant, a McKesson Ventures portfolio company, is the leading provider of a healthcare CRM platform designed to help health systems transform the healthcare...
Accolade Appoints New Chief Medical Officer to Support Continued Digital Health Growth
Accolade, an on-demand healthcare concierge for employers, health plans, and health systems, today announced the appointment of Ivor Horn, M.D., MPH, as Chief Medical Officer. Accolade CEO Rajeev Singh praised Dr. Horn’s passion for finding creative new ways to apply data, science, and technology to improve the...
Other News
Is the COVID Vaccine the Shot in the Arm We Need for Healthcare Access?
Colin Hung recently interviewed Chris Gervais, CTO and CSO at Kyruus; and Pamela Landis, vice president of digital engagement at Hackensack Meridian Health, for a discussion of healthcare access and the importance of that access in light of the COVID-19 pandemic....
Andrew Dudum, Hims & Hers, on disrupting healthcare by reimagining the patient experience
On a recent episode of Wharton Digital Health’s The Pulse podcast, Hims & Hers Founder and CEO Andrew Dudum discussed a wide range of topics including how Hims & Hers disrupted the $4 trillion healthcare industry by creating a telehealth tool that makes...
Keeping Physicians Independent: Dr Patricia Salber Interviews Dr Farzad Mostashari
In a recent episode of the American Journal of Managed Care’s Managed Care Cast podcast, Dr. Patricia Salber, MD, MBA, of The Doctor Weighs In interviewed Aledade Co-founder and CEO Farzad Mostashari, MD, about how his company is keeping physicians independent through...
The Spread of COVID-19 Has Caused Medtech to Boom
The promise of digital health, telehealth, and other medtech solutions like remote patient monitoring has been apparent to people in the industry for a long time, but it wasn’t until COVID-19 forced the adoption of these tools that the promise started to become a...
Here’s the pitch deck that convinced Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to participate in a $33 million Series C extension for Vineti, which makes cloud software to track advanced drug development
Vineti, a cloud software startup that manages the development of drugs such as cancer vaccines and cell and gene therapies recently raised a $33 million extension to its Series C round. Business Insider recently interviewed Vineti CEO and Co-founder Amy DuRoss about...