Press Releases
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...
OncoHealth Secures Strategic Investments from Arsenal Capital Partners & McKesson Corporation
OncoHealth announced today that Arsenal Capital Partners and McKesson Corporation have strategically invested in the company. The funding, which gives Arsenal a majority ownership stake in OncoHealth, will help the company continue developing its oncology-focused digital health platform. John DiGiovanni, an...
Reimagine Care and University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Collaborate to Provide Home-Centered Care to Bone Marrow Transplant Patients
Reimagine Care, a provider of technology-enabled services that support oncologists in delivering high-quality, home-centered, value-based cancer care, has collaborated with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU Anschutz) to deliver care to bone marrow transplant patients. The collaboration will...
OncoHealth Launches New Consumer Platform Bringing Digital Telehealth Services to People with Cancer
OncoHealth, a leading digital health company dedicated to oncology, today unveiled a new digital telehealth service for people with cancer. Iris™ by OncoHealth combines human-centered design, mobile technology, data, empathy, and specially trained oncology experts to deliver personalized, oncology-specific, 24x7...
Augmedix to Report Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021 Financial Results on March 21, 2022
Medical data service and documentation provider Augmedix recently announced that its fourth quarter and 2021 financial results will be reported on Monday, March 21, 2022, after market close. A conference call discussing these numbers will be held by company management at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time. There are several ways...
Other News
Through reverse auctions, Minnesota pushes for PBM savings and price transparency
Truveris has helped the State of Minnesota save more than $28 million in pharmacy benefits expenses over the next two years. Using the company’s technology, the state was able to evaluate bids from competing pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Truveris’ technology...
Matternet Tests Longest Drone Delivery Route Between Hospitals and Labs in Switzerland
Matternet has begun test operations on a 5-kilometer (3-mile) beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone delivery route over Zurich, Switzerland. This is the longest urban drone delivery route ever, and it still takes only seven minutes for drones to go from one...
Matternet Set to Produce M2 Delivery Drones in the US After Receiving FAA Greenlight
Matternet’s groundbreaking FAA Type Certification for its M2 drone in September of 2022 was followed quickly by being granted a Production Certificate for the craft by the US Federal Aviation Administration. With the Production Certificate, Matternet can now begin...
Running Through Walls: Thinking Long Term is the Greatest Gift
In a recent Venrock podcast, Aledade Founder and CEO Farzad Mostashari spoke about how to heighten the efficiency and effectiveness of patient care, specifically preventative care. He discusses how Aledade is working to help patients when average primary care...
Carrum Health, GRAIL strike up partnership to offer cancer test to employers
Cancer has managed to be the most expensive condition increasing employers’ costs. Seeing this issue as an opportunity to collaborate Carrum Health and GRAIL have teamed up to create a solution. Carrum Health is a value-based platform that helps employers and...