Press Releases
Evariant Selected as a Finalist in the Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition
Evariant’s cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system has just earned them a spot as one of the Fierce Innovation Awards selected finalists. Evariant is competing in the Population Health Management/Patient Engagement Solutions category. “We are honored to be a finalist in this year’s Fierce Innovation...
Everseat Expedites Medical Access and Provider Reimbursements with PokitDok
Everseat has announced that it will make instant insurance eligibility verification a core component of its medical appointment scheduling service. It will do this by teaming up with PokitDok, a company that manages health insurance carrier connectivity, file validation, encryption, and transmission. “PokitDok is the...
Medidata and SHYFT Analytics Form Commercial Partnership
SHYFT Analytics and Medidata have announced a partnership that will increase access to healthcare data analytics in clinical trials. Using SHYFT’s intelligent analytics and Medidata’s clinical technology platform, the partnership will enable life sciences companies to add real world evidence data from electronic...
Kyruus Appoints Travis Moore, MBA, RN as Senior Vice President of Market Solutions
Kyruus, an industry leader in patient access and referral management solutions, is focusing on increasing its market reach and growing its product portfolio with the hiring of its newest employee: Travis Moore. Moore will join Kyruus as the Senior Vice President of Marketing Solutions and will take the lead on all...
SHYFT Analytics Raises $12.5 Million in New Funding from Global Healthcare and Technology Leaders, led by McKesson Ventures and Medidata Solutions
SHYFT Analytics, a provider of cloud data and analytics for the global life sciences industry, announced that the company has secured $12.5 million in Series B funding from McKesson Ventures, Medidata Solutions, and other healthcare and technology investors. SHYFT will use the investment to continue its growth and...
Mercer and Accolade form alliance to set a new standard in consumer health experience
Global healthcare adviser Mercer has teamed up with healthcare concierge Accolade to develop an all-inclusive healthcare management solution. “Mercer Complete Care” debuted on August 4th and was developed as a resource for employers to offer their employees. The all-encompassing system allows employees and their...
AmeriHealth New Jersey collaborates with Accolade to transform the health care experience for its members
Accolade and AmeriHealth New Jersey announced on July 19th a new collaboration that will help AmeriHealth New Jersey customers make the most of their benefits. The two companies have partnered to offer a preliminary group of customers access to a service called Accolade Health Assistants® at no additional cost....
Evariant Selected by Top Academic Center for Physician Relationship Management (PRM) Solutions
Evariant, whose leading CRM platform provides centralized healthcare data, analytics, and communications, will be partnering with the University of Virginia Health System (UVA), one of the world’s top academic medical centers. UVA will make use of Evariant’s Physician Relationship Management and Physician Market...
Health Catalyst Eliminates Client Restriction on Solicitation and Hiring in its Contracts
On June 21, 2016, Health Catalyst announced in a press release that it will no longer include a provision in client service contracts prohibiting the solicitation or hire of Health Catalyst employees by clients. The company will, however, still honor restrictions of solicitation of its clients’ employees by Health...
Evariant to Co-Present with University of Chicago Medicine at the American Association of Physician Liaisons 2016 Conference
On June 14th, 2016, Evariant announced that it will co-present a speaking session at the American Association of Physician Liaisons (AAPL) 2016 Conference. This will be the 15th annual conference, which will take place from June 22-24 at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel and Spa in Anaheim, CA. Evariant, one of...
Other News
Coronavirus Home Tests: How They Work, What They Cost, and How Accurate They Are
The shortage of COVID-19 tests has become an ongoing problem in the U.S. The shortages of test kits and testing supplies, combined with lack of access to physical testing sites, contributed to the lack of coronavirus testing nationwide and the spread of infection...
Rock Health’s COO talks digital health funding, M&As and ‘Teladongo’
At HIMSS’ recent Accelerate Health event, Rock Health Chief Operating Officer Megan Zweig gave participants some insights on how digital health has behaved during the pandemic and the resulting volatile economy. Rock Health statistics point to a record-breaking year....
Time-crunched doctors are relying on remote-working scribes to take notes via video call
Medical scribes first appeared in the 1970s, when they began serving as note-takers for ER physicians. But after the federal HITECH Act motivated healthcare providers to adopt electronic health records, scribing really took off. EHRs were supposed to simplify patient...
Telemedicine startup Hims closing in on deal to go public: 4 details
Hims, a direct-to-consumer telehealth startup, is close to securing a deal to go public through a merger with special-purpose acquisition company Oaktree Acquisition Corporation, according to a September 25 report in Bloomberg. According to people familiar with the...
2020 Precision Health Virtual Symposium
Evidation Health Director of Strategic Partnerships Bray Patrick-Lake was one of the speakers at the afternoon keynote address at the 2020 Precision Health Virtual Symposium, which focused on how health data is gathered and used in research and how the data is being...