Press Releases
Reimagine Care and The Center for Cancer & Blood Disorders Announce Partnership
Reimagine Care announced that it has partnered with The Center for Cancer & Blood Disorders (CCBD), one of the country’s most respected cancer centers, to offer its home-based supportive care and symptom management program to patients in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Thousands of CCBD patients will have access to...
Modern Healthcare Recognizes IVX Health in its 2022 Best Places to Work in Healthcare List
For the fourth consecutive year, IVX Health has been recognized by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare in 2022. This annual program identifies and honors 150 outstanding companies and organizations in the healthcare industry nationwide, and IVX Health was ranked No. 20 overall in one of...
Lightship® and Acclinate Announce Partnership to Increase Access to Clinical Trials for Diverse Populations
Lightship is teaming up with digital health company Acclinate to increase access to and engagement of diverse participants in a decentralized neurology clinical trial for a large pharmaceutical company. Beyond the neurology trial, the partnership aims to increase access and engagement in clinical trials for...
Komodo Health Appoints Lauren Stahl as Head of Sales
Komodo Health announced that Lauren Stahl has been appointed as the company’s vice president and head of sales, effective immediately. In this role, Stahl’s responsibilities include sales team leadership across Komodo’s entire portfolio of customers, overseeing operational strategy to drive business efficiencies, and...
Augmedix Launches New Service, Augmedix Prep, to Significantly Reduce Physician Chart Prep Burden
Augmedix, a provider of automated medical documentation solutions, has announced the launch of Augmedix Prep, a new service that significantly reduces the burden on medical staff from preparing charts prior to a patient visit. The new service features specialized technology that prepares a patient note structure and...
Augmedix Reports Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
On August 8, 2022, Augmedix reported its financial results for the three-month period that ended on June 30, 2022. Manny Krakaris, chief executive officer of Augmedix, noted that “we continued to see good momentum and are pleased with our strong start to 2022. We remain focused on our path to profitability as we...
Augmedix Announces Expanded Partnership with Adventist Health
Augmedix has announced a groundbreaking partnership with Adventist Health. The data-driven partnership aims to utilize Adventist’s experience as a nonprofit health system integrated into more than 80 communities in the western United States. The partnership was reached as a piece of a scalable plan to aid physicians...
C-Path and Replica Analytics Collaboration Aims to Accelerate Rare Disease Research
Critical Path Institute (C-Path) and Replica Analytics, an Aetion company, have announced a partnership that uses synthetic data to help researchers more easily develop drugs to treat rare diseases. Replica Analytics will help generate synthetic datasets across rare and orphan indications in which patient-level...
Merck Announces the Launch of the Merck Digital Sciences Studio to Help Healthcare Startups Quickly Bring their Innovations to Market
Merck, known as MSD outside the U.S. and Canada, has announced the launch of the Merck Digital Sciences Studio (MDSS) to enable the generation of innovative technologies for drug discovery and development. MDSS will support early-stage biomedical startups with direct investment, access to Azure Cloud computing, and...
McKesson Ventures Takes the ParityPledge to Commit to Increasing Representation for Women and People of Color
McKesson Ventures has signed the Parity.org ParityPledge® in Support of People of Color and in Support of Women. The ParityPledge simply asks that companies commit to interview and consider at least one qualified woman and person of color for every open role, VP and above, including the C-suite and the board of...
Other News
‘A Startup Supporting Startups’: Inside Merck Digital Sciences Studio
Last year, McKesson Ventures joined Merck, Microsoft, the Global Health Innovation Fund, Northland Ventures, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology to create the Merck Digital Sciences Studio. The studio was inspired by the work of Geof Hannigan, a computational...
Survey results show unseen burdens for individuals with endometriosis at work and school
Evidation and Myovant Sciences conducted a survey about the lived experiences of people with endometriosis and/or uterine fibroids. The results of that survey show the magnitude of the negative impacts these conditions have on employee and student experiences and...
Digital Health Assessments May Improve Parkinson Disease Diagnosis
Results from the 12-month, multicenter, observational study, WATCH-PD, were recently published in the journal Nature. The researchers found significant associations between digital biomarkers with a wearable device and conventional clinical scoring methods used in...
Komodo Health unveils MapEnhance, a new centralized network of specialty data partners
Komodo Health has recently launched MapEnhance, a feature that leverages a network of specialty data partners connecting into the company’s platform. MapEnhance builds on Komodo’s Healthcare Map, which it characterizes as a de-identified data set on 330 million...
Inside the new world of healthcare data
In a recent episode of the PharmaPhorum podcast, Evidation co-CEO and Executive Chair of the Board Deborah Kilpatrick discussed healthcare data collection in 2023 and how it intersects with stakeholders across the ecosystem, from tech and pharma companies to research...